After today, I’ll be breaking for Thanksgiving. See you Monday! Over the last week or so, I’ve been writing about the possibilities of partnership within collegiate ministries. (See the series here.) One important principle that connects here is the principle of long-term relational commitment. I wrote about that with general commitment …
In the last few posts (for this Partnering Possibilities series), I’ve been discussing partnerships that develop after reflection and analyzation of ministry needs – as well as what potential partnerships are out there. But partnerships can also arise simply through the relationships you build with people around town, and especially …
This is the third entry in a series called “Partnering Possibilities,” looking at the role partnership can play in a college ministry. An important help – and big opportunity – when we choose to partner is the establishment of a new student leader position: “facilitator.” (You can certainly come up …
This is the third entry in a series called “Partnering Possibilities,” looking at the role partnership can play in a college ministry. Yesterday I wrote about the chance to use partnership as “delegation,” especially for new activities. Today’s thoughts run the risk of being redundant, but some of the ideas …
One helpful way to think about partnerships in college ministry is to see them as a form of delegation. Just as it’s important for us to consistently look for more activities we can push from staff’s plates onto the plates of student leaders, we can also ask ourselves: Which of our goals is already …
One of the “pillars” of my church’s outreach efforts is Partnerships. We nearly always partner with an outside organization to accomplish our corporate city (or global) impact. We’re a big church and could choose to “start things,” but we’d often be recreating what others are successfully doing. This isn’t an uncommon approach …
