How to Best Reach Your Students

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Updated 2/21/12 How are you reaching your students? Do you know? I found myself struggling to answer these questions toward the end of the fall semester of ’09. And what made matters worse was the fact that I had been at that ministry setting for 4.5 years by that point! Unfortunately I had fallen into [...]

The Hardest Time of the Year

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Updated 2/20/12 It’s February. For college students (and probably most people) this is one of the hardest times of the year. The weather is nasty and we’ve been cooped up inside for far too long. The days are still short… and only slowly getting longer. The refreshment and joy of the holidays are behind us. The newness of a [...]

The ‘Fred’ in Our Midst

Updated 2/17/12 This is Fred. He used to be a common fixture around our house out in the country… and he wasn’t alone. Back in the fall of 2009, my in-laws were passing through town on their way to Florida for the winter. They thought that since we had recently moved out into “the country” [...]

How SEXy is your College Ministry?

Updated 2/14/12 I’m not sure what exactly you were expecting to find here… but I’m glad you made it! Statistics tell us that college students are inundated with sexually explicit images, media items, thoughts, experiences and addictions. I’m convinced that sexually related vices are one of the biggest stumbling blocks to college students experiencing a [...]

Death and Faith Formation

One of our students tragically lost a parent last week. In my 12+ years of doing life with college students this is the first time I’ve attended the funeral of a student’s parent. As we’ve reached out to him over the past few days, and begin to think about walking alongside him over the coming [...]