Fateful days. Fateful seats. Early in the yearlong road trip, I very purposely made my way down (after weeks in New England) to Orlando to attend Ivy Jungle, which at the time was the top-of-the-heap in pushing the field of college ministry forward. I even attended the pre-conference. And sitting next …
All week I’ve been springboarding from my outline for tonight’s lecture at Dallas Seminary on college and young adult ministry. And one of the most fun things I’ll get to present is the breadth of what’s out there. I don’t know the students’ background in ministry – I plan to …
It’s not surprising that the largest Evangelical denominational college ministry belongs to the largest Evangelical denomination. But what might be surprising is that it’s far from monolithic, as I described yesterday. But for the sake of those of you with Southern Baptist ministry on your campus, here’s the continuation of …
On Monday, I linked the posts I’ve completed through the years covering various national ministries: Young Life College, Chi Alpha, Cru (formerly Campus Crusade), InterVarsity, ministries of the Association of College Ministries (out of the Independent Christian Churches), and a snippet on Great Commission Ministries and their collegiate churches. I write these …
One of the most exciting things about the unique explorations I’ve gotten to undertake has been seeing the broad diversity of American collegiate ministry. I’ve gotten to examine – from the ground level, from the national level, and from levels in-between – the differences between these many groups. While you’ve …
One of my big hopes for this blog is that I’m able to provide a solid view of college ministry around the U.S. – including a helpful perspective on groups that minister to your own local campus tribe. If we’re called to college ministry, we should be learners. And one …
I’ve had a few cool opportunities recently to “dive in” in extra-special ways to various campus ministry groups – and then to return to the surface with something to share. After the Urbana conference, I got to highlight InterVarsity. After the local Campus Crusade Winter Conference, I shared the ways …
I had the neat opportunity during the past week to attend the local Campus Crusade Winter Conference, one of ten college student conferences put on by Cru around the country. And as I began describing yesterday, the DFW Winter Conference did a great job of reflecting on Crusade’s ministry as …
As you may have seen via Twitter, I’ve had the wonderful chance to visit one of Campus Crusade for Christ’s famous Winter Conferences. These annual conferences are seen as key components of Cru ministry to students, so it was a joy to experience one. (As you may have seen, I …
My amazing and out-of-the-blue opportunity to view THE Urbana conference this week has provided a really solid window into the InterVarsity campus ministry world. (To clarify, LOTS of non-InterVarsity college ministries and other Christians attend Urbana, and I would highly recommend it. But it is indeed organized by InterVarsity every …
