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Motivate and Equip: Helping Student Leaders Connect with Freshmen

Each fall, student leaders have the opportunity to connect with new students arriving on our campuses across the country. The nature of college ministry requires constant turnover, recruitment, and investment each year to keep ministries growing and thriving. While campus ministry staff work hard to connect with new students, ensuring your student leaders invest in …

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Less Than Welcoming: Navigating the Challenges of a “Closed Campus”

The welcome that a ministry receives on campus can vary anywhere from very warm to completely closed off. Here we discuss what it is like to serve on a “not as accessible” campus. Tiffany Hudson of Vanderbilt BCM in Tennessee and Scott Winter, who serves with Christian Challenge on a community college in Arizona share …

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Whatever You Get, Get Freshmen: Thoughts on How Church-based College Ministries can Connect with New Students

Proverbs 4:7 says, “The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.” If I were to borrow that language and apply it to college ministry it would be, “Get freshmen and whatever you get, get new students.” College ministries must connect with new students because a missed year of students …

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Meeting Students: Ways to Connect Through Campus Sponsored Events

I minister along with our associate director, Katie Troutman, on the state university campus, Lander University, which has  a population of 4000 plus students.  Our university is very open to ministry and has “seen the light” of utilizing our ministry.  Let me confess that I have been serving on this campus for almost 39 years …

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Avoiding Spiritual Bypassing in Evangelism

One of our desires as a BCNet Evangelism Committee is to provide collegiate directors with ideas for evangelism on their campus. We have provided ideas in five categories: First Contact, Conversational Outreach, Community Integration, Gospel Proclamation, and Evangelism Strategies. We hope that the following Evangelism Strategies article will be useful to you and your students! …

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