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 …
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Student Leaders… This Time of Year
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 …
Finding A Sustainable Pace
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, …
Steering New Students Away From Leadership
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 …
Claim Your Baggage
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 …
Recovering From Welcome Week
I don’t know about you, but after the past couple of weeks I’m about done — yet today is the first day of class… so what’s a campus pastor (or student leader) to do? The reality is that most of us jumped in to the deep-end of activity within the last week or two — …
The 8 Minute Stillness Challenge
This summer I had the chance to spend time at our cabin in the Catskills. It’s a simple log cabin bordering 150 feet of trout stream. I love to sit there on my green bench and just listen to the sounds of nature. A year ago, I stumbled upon the practice of stillness. I …
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