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 …
When your college ministry’s students change majors, do they discuss that decision beforehand with their small group leader or their college minister? When they’re considering studying abroad, do they bring that up before they’ve made the decision? What about when they plan to drop a class, or they choose between …
As I noted earlier this week, I’ve been on a learning trip with our large church team. That meant several great learning “interviews” – not too unlike the hundreds I’ve done with college ministers, only this time with a few other people sitting alongside me in each one. Of course, …
Have you considered taking a learning trip or “learning retreat” with your student leaders? It’s on my mind because as you read this, I’m headed to Memphis with my church staff team to do that very thing. We’re excited to learn from church folks, parachurch folks, and secular non-profits, along …
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 …
This Fridea is both early in the week (because tomorrow is Good Friday) and early enough that you could plan for summer. I’m sure I’ve blogged along these lines in the past, but there’s a simple focus I want to give today: What if your whole ministry went through the same …
With students leaving town and campuses often closed on some day or another, can campus ministries even celebrate Easter, or use Easter time strategically? Of course they can. Here are some thoughts from past posts about this week. If you’ve missed some opportunities this year, put them on the calendar …
It’s easy to miss teachable moments related to current events, especially because some college campuses feel pretty insulated from what’s happening “outside.” (Students will always have a range of focus on current events, from the deeply engaged to the highly ignorant.) But one issue I think it would be a …
Today’s Fridea is about ideas – specifically, inviting new ideas for new ministry efforts in the new school year. What if you solicited out-of-the-box ideas for your college ministry, from your students, to be implemented in the next school year? If you pitched this well, you’d hopefully get a variety of small …
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 …
