It’s possible you’ll have some time to “ponder” over the Winter Break, maybe even a chance to get away with staff or key leaders to plan or tweak the upcoming semester. You’re the expert on what your ministry needs most, but I thought I’d throw out a list to help you brainstorm.
Below you’ll find a list of ways college ministries could often make the biggest leap forward with just a little thought or time:
- Small Group Leader training (so over the break, you could read a book or two on Small Group Ministry, for example)
- Preparing to impact students while they’re away this summer (you need to start preparing before late April!)
- Starting new student ministry teams / delegating new areas of the ministry to students or volunteers
- Preparing a really strong evangelism training for students
- Planning recruitment for the spring semester (when not nearly enough collegiate ministries recruit!)
- Developing strong discipleship to prepare seniors for the “real world” after they graduate
- Developing a student survey that will truly reveal “action items” for the near future (a good survey takes lots of thought and prayer and collaboration to develop)
- Connecting with high school seniors in your town / state who are likely coming to your school (if you have a way to figure this out)
- Forging new relationships with administration / faculty at your school
- Bringing in “fresh eyes” to evaluate your ministry and brainstorm for the future (another college minister, or someone like me to “consult”)
- Interviewing several college ministers at other campuses to really stretch your understanding of what campus ministry can / does look like