The Convergence of Christ, Culture & the College Years
On my way into the office this morning I was flipping through the stations on my dial and happened into an interview already in progress. As best I could tell, the person being interviewed represented a book, and/or website, known as The Cheapskate Next Door. The interviewer’s next question was simply, “where else do you [...]
How do you decide who to bring to campus? Who do let speak to your students? Whether we are trying to fill a chapel schedule, with guests coming to campus as many as five times a week, or simply considering a new face (and voice) for our weekly large group gathering, the reality is that [...]
Yesterday I ran across a colleague’s Facebook update that included this link to an NPR article entitled, ‘College Students Hide Hunger, Homelessness.’ I encourage you to take a moment to read Diego’s story… because I imagine that we will find that we have an increasing number of Diego’s on our campuses, and we need to [...]
With another blogathon starting tomorrow, I thought it might be good to talk about how we can make the MOST of our few days ‘together’. As I have thought more and more about this time, and how God might choose to use this time of thinking and sharing and learning together; here’s what I’ve found myself [...]
Are you looking for a way to multiply your visibility and impact during the upcoming year? Have you considered eating lunch in the cafeteria on campus? While some things have changed on the landscape of university life, other things haven’t… students (especially first year students) are required to have a meal plan — which lands [...]
For a generation that is so digitally engaged, and even electronically dependent, have screens and multi-media become a necessary part of today’s worship scene? As someone who is still fairly new to planning and designing worship services, I can struggle with wanting to shape services based more on what I think students need versus what [...]
Well, we’re nearing the end of July and plans for the upcoming year are starting to take final form. I’m not sure what this process has been like for you, but for us, there have been a lot of changes, edits, additions and subtractions from the model of ministry we were serving out of last [...]
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