Seeking Community as a College Minister
College ministry is hard. It’s a joy, certainly! I’ve never experienced more excitement about Jesus and His mission than I have working with and alongside college students. Their excitement and passion for Christ is infectious and life-giving. Yet, we should acknowledge that the joy of college ministry comes with great difficulty. We can all think […]
New Year. New Semester. New You?
There are millions (literally 22,800,000 of them) of Google search results for “new year resolutions.” Each new year is the fresh start to finally get serious about (fill in the blank). According to Forbes, improving mental health, financial health, and physical health are some of the most common resolutions set for 2023. At the start […]
Campus Multiplication Network
“Over half of colleges and universities have little to no gospel presence on them. We’re not okay with that …” is the opening message that greets you on the Campus Multiplication Network’s homepage. CMN is designed to train and equip campus ministry leaders in the “how to” of pioneering a new campus ministry or seeing […]
Should I Really Be Concerned About Working with Alumni?
Yes, a thousand times yes!! I must confess to you that I had been working with college students for about 15 years when it occurred to me that I needed to do more to connect with alumni. They still wanted that relationship and so did I. I found myself trying to think of ways to […]
1,500 Collegiate Missionaries Hit the Beaches to Share Jesus Over Spring Break
While millions of American college students headed to U.S. beaches to party and have fun, 1,500 college students from Baptist Collegiate Ministry groups and churches hit the beaches with a different purpose. Their goal was to engage their fellow college students with the Gospel. Under the label, Beach Reach, these college student missionaries gathered at […]
God Belongs On My Campus
Loud praises to Jesus and the Gospel rang out from an auditorium on the campus of Francis Marion University. It was all part of a Baptist Collegiate Ministry effort called God Belongs on My Campus. This effort began in 2016 when a small Bible study group of college guys decided to take their love for Christ & passion for […]
6 Practices of Jesus to Employ in Developing Student Leaders
Although circumstances on campus vary from region to region, it seems like most of us are getting back to a semi-normal state after the two-year challenge of COVID-19. We will be talking for years about all the ways the recent global pandemic adversely affected our ministries. But, perhaps one of the glaring ramifications of the […]
Transitioning from Collegiate Ministry to the Real World
Adulting is a new word that has entered our vocabulary and was named the word of the year in 2017. The truth is campus ministers have been helping college students become spiritual adults long before then. However in recent years we did notice that our college graduates had a rough time finding jobs and making […]
10 Tips For Raising Support Without A Church Background
So, God has called you to do ministry in an emerging region. To make matters trickier, you aren’t from the Bible Belt where resources are more bountiful, and you may not have a church background or much of a Christian network. To make matters even trickier, you haven’t won the lottery yet. This has all […]
Into the Unknown-Following God to a New Campus
At the very beginning of the pandemic, my wife and I found ourselves working full time jobs from our home, but unlike at our offices, we were contending with a non-productive, 14-month-old coworker that just so happened to call us Mom and Dad! “T.V. time” quickly went out the window and we thanked those good […]