Hopefully you’ve got student leaders serving in your ministry. Whether you’ve simply got small group leaders, you have a wide range of ministry teams, or you’ve informally assigned oversight to things like “large group meeting setup” or “greeting newcomers,” those leaders usually have a specific role. Or even if some …
Have you ever considered recruiting a leader for a specific need in your college ministry? Sure, if you have ministry teams and not only small group leaders, you probably open some narrowly defined leadership opportunities once a year or so. But what about a very specific need that arises mid-year? …
This is one of those posts where it will be impossible for me to provide enough examples, since I don’t know the particular context of your school. So I’m not going to put too much effort into that. If this is a useful notion to you – and I think it …
Depending on your ministry’s rhythms, it’s likely you’re determining student leaders for next year: for small groups, for ministry teams, maybe for other arenas too. I hope, among other evaluations, you (or current student leaders) hold interviews with these guys and gals. Why? Because recruiting leaders is, ultimately, a really great …
Yes, the school year ends. Pretty soon, actually. And while you’ve likely got “finish strong” plans for both your large group teaching and small group curricula, it might be worth considering an add-on (or maybe a replacement). What if your last few weeks were spent doubling down on all that …
My first significant college ministry experience was as a sophomore in college, leading a small group of freshmen in an awesome on-campus ministry called Upstream. (Upstream was overseen by a local church but, at the time, had small group leaders and participants from a variety of local churches.) One of …
As I noted earlier this week, I’ve been on a learning trip with our large church team. That meant several great learning “interviews” – not too unlike the hundreds I’ve done with college ministers, only this time with a few other people sitting alongside me in each one. Of course, …
This Fridea is both early in the week (because tomorrow is Good Friday) and early enough that you could plan for summer. I’m sure I’ve blogged along these lines in the past, but there’s a simple focus I want to give today: What if your whole ministry went through the same …
With students leaving town and campuses often closed on some day or another, can campus ministries even celebrate Easter, or use Easter time strategically? Of course they can. Here are some thoughts from past posts about this week. If you’ve missed some opportunities this year, put them on the calendar …
Today’s Fridea is about ideas – specifically, inviting new ideas for new ministry efforts in the new school year. What if you solicited out-of-the-box ideas for your college ministry, from your students, to be implemented in the next school year? If you pitched this well, you’d hopefully get a variety of small …
