The Convergence of Christ, Culture & the College Years
If you’ve been serving students for very long at all, then you know that the summer months can be a challenging season for many of our students.
Spiritually speaking, many will struggle to re-engage back in the community of faith they were apart of before they left for college… (which assumes, of course, that they had one to leave in the first place).
As students near the end of another term… and some, graduation… many will make their way towards the home of their parents. And although they return to a place that is familiar, to people who love them (we hope), we know that they head back different — changed — from who they were the last [...]
I’m at the Catalyst Conference in Atlanta this week. It’s a major conference that draws upwards of 13,000 Christian leaders from around the globe and boasts some of the best thinkers, authors, pastors and leaders in America (and beyond) for speakers and lab leaders. In an attempt to be a good steward of this experience, [...]
With all of the transition, struggle, change and formation that takes place during the college years, I wonder how our approach to ministry with college students might change if we began to think in terms of this season of life as a ‘spiritual desert’ for students, similar to what we see described throughout the Bible [...]
The college years are some of the most formative in life. During this critical time, students are going through a tremendous amount of transition… and we have been called to walk alongside them during their years on campus. One of the most significant changes — I think — comes in how students learn to view, [...]
Today marks the beginning of my 15th year of welcoming college students to campus. Most campuses I know of seem to have some sort of formal programming and process for welcoming students to campus, helping them to get moved in, and then oriented to their new community, before classes begin. Most of us went [...]
“We have a choice. We can minister in the world we wish we had. Or, we can minister in the world we do have.” Those words have stuck with me from a conference I attended many years ago. The speaker was talking about the church and was challenging church leaders to examine more closely the [...]
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