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? …
You’ll want to read yesterday’s post to get the full context for this, but how can you “produce” students who will influence and impact well as post-college young adults? Here are eight examples of ways students need to be ready to have a ministry in their next church – some …
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 …
To follow up on yesterday’s post, I wanted to offer a few past entries on how students process decisions. Enjoy! When the Circus Comes Calling: Helping students understand how to process decisions A Community of “Core”: As part of my “Tightening the Core” series, a quick post on the kinds of small …
Have you ever looked back at past “info cards,” former small group rosters, or old ministry team lists? What would it teach you and your ministry to learn where formerly involved students ended up? Did they simply “slip away” from college ministry and get involved in college life? Did they …
The subject of mental health is obviously a big one – a big one for churches to tackle, a big one for campuses to tackle, and one that college ministries shouldn’t fall short of addressing. It’s not too scandalous to say that Christians haven’t exactly handled this one as excellently …
Yesterday was the first-in-the-nation primary election day here in Texas. While it’s not a presidential election year, it is indeed a year when the students around you will hear about plenty of voting opportunities. (And we’re not really at a point in America where politics takes an “off year,” either.) So …
For Valentine’s Day, a past post assessing the relationships and romances that develop within your college ministry… We college ministers need to talk plenty about “love and relationships” – those things are on our students’ minds, they trip up plenty of Christian students, they provide a chance to run counter-cultural …
I can’t believe it’s almost been two decades since my first Finals Week as a college student. It’s probably because of that distance that I don’t really remember being challenged about “finishing strong” when it came to Finals Week. What happened with the school calendar seems like it was pretty …
Now would be a great time of your semester to check up on students’ church involvement: especially freshmen, but anyone could find their churchmanship waning at any point in college. And this is applicable even if you run a church-based ministry or collegiate church. (Are those students involved in a …
