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Lauren Cumbie

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Taking the First Step: Meeting International Students this Fall

If you spend time on a college campus of any size for more than a day, you will see that the world has come to U.S. schools through international students. These are not just any international students – they are the best and brightest from their countries and they will someday return to take influential

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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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Camps and Coffee: Using Summers to Meet Students and Youth Leaders

Baptist Collegiate Ministry (BCM) in Oklahoma continues to grow because of the relationship we have developed with Oklahoma Youth Ministry leaders. Our ministry partnership continues to produce a clear path forward for high school grads looking to connect with BCMs in Oklahoma and beyond. This partnership has grown significantly in the past 20 years and

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