I am fortunate to receive and enjoy seeing email and paper newsletters from lots of different college ministers. Today, one was particularly enjoyable. I will not identify specifically the person or campus but will quote some parts of it. The College Minister shared that they were taking a group to Beach Reach in Panama City […]
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Mobilizing prayer for your ministry is one of the most important things you can do. I would suggest that you mobilize yourself first to be a person of prayer! If you are not passionate about praying it will be very difficult for you to mobilize others to pray. This is hard for me. Being “faithful
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Stephen Covey’s book, “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” is an enduring classic. I have recently begun to wrestle with what are “EFFECTIVE” habits. In my current role, I supervise student assistant/interns. They care; they work hard. They give more time than we pay them for. This has helped me to again focus and think
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Mobilizing prayer for our ministry is one of the most important things we can do. It’s the only thing we cannot delegate. After all, if we don’t stand in the gap for our campus, who will? The first person we need to mobilize to prayer is ourselves! If we are not passionate about praying it
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Ministry Model Interview Questions What do you do to reach freshman? What do your fall outreach plans look like? Because we are a metro ministry, meaning we serve more than one campus in our area, we have multiple “first weeks of school” where we are providing lots of opportunities to connect with them. A lot
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These are valuable people on your campus that can help you organize and benefit the ministry: Head of Student Activities To become a recognized student organization on campus comes with many benefits with access to the student body. With that access comes both rules and procedures to maintain that access, which is why it is
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A TV commercial a few years back featured an obviously affluent couple meeting with a prestigious architect. When the architect asked, “And what can I do for you?”, the wife pulled out from a bag a sleek bathroom sink faucet. “We want you to design a house around THIS.” The architect raised his eyebrow in
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According to Mike Riggins of the North American Mission Board, there are 180 Self-Funded Collegiate Missionaries working with the SBC on college campuses. I serve as one of these missionaries at Penn State. There are great resources with how to do support raising, but here I want to look at the benefits of partners. Support
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At a summer gathering of ministers to college students, we asked several of them, “What are some of the ways you train and engage your students in opportunities for evangelism?” “We train students in evangelism at Beach Reach then plan follow-up events on campus for them for the rest of the spring semester. We also
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FRESHMEN 1st Three Weeks: The first three weeks of school are “solid gold.” They are so important! In those first three weeks, students subconsciously set their patterns for the next four years. If we hold that reaching freshmen during this time is so important then the response has to be big and multifaceted. Collect Contact
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