Ministering in the Midst of Protests and Uprising
I couldn’t be more proud of Teresa Royall, our Baptist Campus Minister at Georgia State University in downtown Atlanta. She ministers in the midst of of one of our most culturally-diverse BCMs in the middle of downtown Atlanta. She shared with our staff recently a series of experiences over the past weekend – experiences that […]
East Tennessee State University BCM Ministry Interview
HOW DO YOU MEASURE MINISTRY HEALTH AND EFFECTIVENESS? I’d love to say that I don’t use metrics of any kind, but that would not be true. While I don’t believe numbers are everything, I also don’t believe they are nothing! So, I like to use metrics for things like events, mission trips, etc. This can […]
Send ‘Em All!
The largest commodity college students have is time. They say they’re busy but that is because they have no idea what busy actually is. Students are send-able and train-able. Once this is leveraged, collegiate ministries can be the greatest launching pads for global missions in the world. In order to reach this potential our ministries […]
How to Become a College Ministry with a Sending Culture
Five years ago it was an anomaly for our students to go on mission projects. We’d offer them occasionally, but the response was dismal and few seemed interested. We knew that had to change so we began to be more strategic and intentional about how we approached student involvement in missions. We have seen a […]
How College Ministry Teams are Like Sports Teams
Growth in ministry is always exhilarating! Having more there than last year, starting a new small group, having to set out “overflow” seating; all of these things keep you coming back! It’s surfing the wave of chaos! But transitions can also be really hard. It’s hard moving from a “small group Bible study” to a […]
Don’t Blow it With Your Interns
I remember the first year we had the budget (and enough students) to warrant an intern. I was excited! We were now “multi-staff.” We could have staff meetings instead of me talking to myself on the way to campus! The only problem was I had no clue what I was doing. Literally, no clue. I […]
Summer Goals Worksheet
How a student chooses to invest their summer can be a huge accelerant in their walk with Jesus or it could be a spiritual train wreck, should they choose to waste it. As their discipler, you can give them a vision and help prepare them to make the most of their summer for Christ. Your […]
Four Things When Leading Off the Map
Unprecedented. Unheard of. Never before. These are the words that people use to describe this COVID-19 situation. The church has gone online and families adjust to the “new normal” of social distancing and quarantine. What we’ve done before will not work wherever we are now or where we are headed. We can crumple up the […]
FRESH 10: The Importance of Reaching Freshmen within their First 10 Days on Campus
What is Fresh 10? It is a freshmen engagement strategy that calls for collegiate ministries to invest heavily and sacrificially in engaging incoming freshmen for their first 10 days on campus. Fresh 10 requires ministries to plan one key event every day in order to: Befriend as many non-Christian freshmen as possible Invite those freshmen […]
Sample Student Leadership Strategy for College Ministry
Vision Our vision is to be disciples who make disciples. We believe the best way to make disciples on the college campus is through student leaders that are with Jesus and on mission with Jesus. So, as a ministry, we are committed to discipling student leaders and equipping them to make disciples on the college […]