The Convergence of Christ, Culture & the College Years
If you haven’t seen the Avengers movie yet, you should! The movie got me thinking about how vital teamwork in ministry is because lets face it, no matter how cool or relevant we are, or how big our campus meetings get, college ministry will not be sustainable without a team.
Is your ministry maximizing its potential? In order to do so we need to be tapping into the best that our students have to offer… And I’m thinking beyond the “usual suspects.” Yes, it makes good sense to get our student workers and leaders involved with helping to design and lead out in our [...]
Some of the best student leaders are… the ones who choose to come back! Their worth is impossible to quantify… because there’s so much they bring with them. Consider the impact of even a handful of student leaders — who, having spent a year or more working alongside of us — opt to return and [...]
I was wandering around my blog archives the other day (insert nerd-related comment here) and I noticed that I spend a lot more time thinking about student leaders at the beginning of every new academic year (or at least that’s what my blog archives might lead one to believe). I hope that’s not the [...]
By now, many of us are full-on into a new term of ministry with students. Whether we’ve been at it for 2 weeks or 4 weeks… or somewhere in between… we’ve likely been going at it hard, recognizing that the first few weeks of the new academic year are critical for connecting with new students, [...]
I have very few “pocket speeches” that I pull out and use over and over again. I find that every student is unique, as is their situation, and it (and they) deserves to be treated as such. However, at the start of every new school year there is one speech (conversation is probably a [...]
Ready or not… a new year of ministry has begun (or will soon begin). And the reality is that some of us… are not ready. Many more of us find ourselves much less ready than we’d like to be. Some of us find ourselves in a place of spiritual, emotional or mental distress. We [...]
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