Since late January (after giving a Ten Big Ideas talk at a conference), I’ve been hashing out ideas. Ten of ’em. Ten BIG ideas. The original idea for the conference talk was that any of these Ten Ideas could transform a college ministry, and I still believe it! Not all …
Continuing from yesterday… Building our best campus mission requires that we be serious about making aggressive progress. By “progress,” I don’t simply mean numerical growth – although that can certainly result from becoming an even better college ministry (while some ministries will lose attendance as they grow better!). There are …
We’re close to finishing up the Ten Big Ideas series, and since we’ve been looking at evaluation, I want to remind us of an important principle I mentioned early on. Someone asked me recently what I think makes “a successful college ministry.” While plenty of people who can answer that …
Continuing with the Ten Big Ideas series and discussing building our best campus mission, I want to brainstorm some ways you might evaluate a college ministry. Like I wrote a couple of days ago, evaluation is / should be highly contextual. These are just ideas for you (or anyone overseeing …
If we want to build our best campus mission, our “best” – whatever that means – will probably never be achieved without evaluating our ministry regularly. (Read the earlier post on evaluation here.) Before I get to practical possibilities for how you and I might evaluate our college ministries, I …
Building our best campus mission doesn’t just mean focusing on longevity. Another ingredient is evaluation. Admittedly, the usual college ministry doesn’t undergo too much relevant evaluation. Certainly, our overseers may have ways to assess our work, but sometimes those range from, “What did you do today?” to “How many students …
I promised two days ago to discuss some of the reasons college ministries don’t always last long. This is part of the discussion on longevity, which is part of the discussion of building your best campus mission, which is the last topic of the Ten Big Ideas series. Yikes. Lots …
For those who desire to build their best campus mission, one key ingredient is building for longevity. If we’re going to build a ministry, we might as well build to last, right? That’s nice to say, but there are certainly reasons a lot of college ministries don’t last long. I’ll …
Here we are. Number 10, of the Ten Big Ideas that could genuinely help transform a present (or new) college ministry. While not all of these ideas fit every ministry, those that do fit are truly things that could create major positive change. Number 10: Build your best campus mission. …
Since I’ve been writing about niche ministry as part of the “Big Idea” series, I want to include one tip that comes at this issue from a slightly different angle. It’s a helpful tool for brainstorming what possible niches your ministry might serve in. It’s one simple question: What’s something …
