The Convergence of Christ, Culture & the College Years
If you’ve worked with college students for very long, you’ve probably heard the appalling statistics regarding how many students walk away from their faith during their college years — I’ve heard estimates that range from 70% to 85%. It’s a horrifying statistic — for parents, college students, and all of us who work with and [...]
What are your standards for your leaders? Do you have any? Do your leaders know what you expect? Have you set the bar to high? To low? As representatives of our ministry, extensions of us and our efforts on campus, are we concerned with who our leaders are, and how they act, when they are [...]
Have you ever stopped to think about what makes you (your ministry) unique? What makes you different from the other ministries on campus? What do you have to offer students that might make your ministry the one for them? In a couple of posts last week I focused on training and equipping our student leaders [...]
It’s amazing how much more approachable we become when we do something as simple as wear a name tag. I just returned from my first lunch in the cafeteria for the year and I’m SO thankful that I remembered to grab my name tag on my way out the door. As new students are [...]
When introducing your students to your ministry, and the campus you serve, what direction do you take? We’ve been given an incredible opportunity, and responsibility, in the lives of new students who enter our campus community! What we do with this opportunity says a lot about our ministry, as well as the kind of [...]
We’ve reached Day 4 — the final day — of our week of leadership training with our new student leaders. Tomorrow we transition from training to serving. New students will begin to arrive EARLY in the morning and we will spend most of the day helping these new community members move-in. Before we leave [...]
Something special happens when we let students into our home… Have you ever noticed this? No matter how they view us on campus, once students have entered our home — seen us interact with our kids, listened to our spouse tell embarrassing stories about us, seen pictures of us when we were much younger, etc. [...]
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