Your student leaders would gain a lot by watching what you do all week. Even if you don’t have a special viewing room with a two-way mirror. How often do you bring them along for what you’re doing? I’m talking about just about everything, like: Planning a message Spending time …
I’m no expert on delegation, neither an expert in understanding nor experience. But I want to be better. One thing I’ve learned is that quality delegation will nearly always hurt, at least for a while. If you’re only delegating to student leaders the very parts of your campus ministry that …
Two ways to build community and culture are so simple (and so effective) they almost feel cliche: honoring examples of the culture you’re trying to build self-deprecation While these two avenues seem worlds apart, they can share a common mode, one method that can accomplish either (or even both): a …
There’s still a lot of meat left on the bone of this semester, and among other things, that means you’ve got room to adjust your student leadership roles and structure in meaningful ways. I’ve written about this opportunity before, so here you go: You’ve heard the Good to Great principle of getting …
Yesterday I discussed the need to look high and low for potential leaders, regardless of how well it seems the cream is already rising to the top. In a recent paper I penned for Made to Flourish about mobilizing within the local church, I attacked that notion a bit: Staff members …
In any college ministry, you’ve got to have ways to tap into unnoticed leadership potential, apart from whom you know well, fellow staff members know well, or student leaders know well. I realize that raising up “leaders who are known” is nearly a mantra, and I’m really not saying that potential …
I hope you plan to have one! Seriously, I hope you’re regularly catching up with anyone who leads within your campus ministry. But a more formal, direct debrief concerning how things are going – even with a willingness to ask big questions like, “Should you be serving in another capacity?” …
Last night, our church held an “international potluck,” bringing together many of the international-born members of our congregation (and another couple of hundred American-born folks). It was a great chance to celebrate our church’s growing international population and growing diversity, as well as to encourage those born outside the U.S. …
An oldie but goodie, and a good season for it… What if your college ministry developed a “care team” to encourage, minister to, and practically help students who are sidelined? While my original thought here was loving on sick students, this could also work (and might be even more important …
How would you know? The truth is, even your college students probably haven’t had enough exposure to “bosses” – and certainly not ministry leaders – to know whether you’re a good one or a lousy one. It’s scary: You could honestly be pretty bad and still gain quite a following …
