Below are several ideas for welcome week, shared by fellow college ministers. Borrow their ideas, and if you need more details, feel free to contact them! Baggo Tournament Table throughout the day and promote/register people for a Baggo tournament at night! Have a great prize for the winning team. Average attendance: 75-100. Cost: $100 First […]
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There were about a dozen of us that gathered together wondering what we were going to do this new year. We had lost our campus staff due to support raising shortages leaving us students to run the ministry on campus. Thankfully our staff had been impressing upon us the power and necessity of prayer so
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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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Beach Reach this year was truly amazing! Between both Beaches (Panama City and South Padre), the numbers were exciting to see. Beach Reach student missionaries: Gave 36,685 people free van ridesEngaged in 18,186 Gospel conversationsPrayed with 13,922 peopleLed 374 people to Christ Praise God for what He has done! Continue to pray for those with
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When you get to the end of your twin marathons – known often for campus ministers as Fall Semester and Spring Semester – it will be time to get curious about whether or not you have rested at all during the course of these two long stretches of the academic calendar we all live by.
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The words hit my ears like a foreign language. I had just been told that in order to go into college ministry I would need to “raise support” for part of my salary. “Raise support?” I knew what it was in general – I had done fundraising many times for short-term mission trips. But raising
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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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Every year when summer rolls around I begin to feel bittersweet about college ministry. This is the only ministry in the church where people leave for a couple of months and then come back, or they are back at your church for a couple of months and then leave again. On one hand, I am
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At the risk of losing the reader from the start, I want to share the conclusion as the intro:“Calling a staff a team doesn’t make it one.” Likewise, everyone that is given the title “Team Leader” is not automatically a “Team Leader”. A team that excels corporately cannot be legislated, mandated, or assumed in any
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One of the best things that college leaders get to do is be a part of sending students on a mission. We love hearing stories about the impact on our students and ministries, but it is also very exciting to see how God works in the hearts of those to whom our students’ minister. Josh
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