Death by Chocolate
Death by Chocolate was an event that was birthed and run in my time on staff at the University of Kentucky under Daniel Berry. This event has always been very successful and still continues to thrive at the UKBCM. I hope that this Conversational Outreach will be useful for your ministry to connect students to […]
Comedy With a Purpose
One of my favorite Disney movies is Mary Poppins. In that movie, one of my favorite scenes is when Mary Poppins and Burt the chimney sweep take the kids on a visit to Uncle Albert’s house. Uncle Albert is an eccentric old man and a likable character. Uncle Albert loves one thing, he loves to […]
A Challenge for Professionals to Mentor International Students
As International Student Ministries continue to proclaim, “The nations are here,” creative methods of engaging them through friendships develop. Traditionally, we have engaged through friendship partners, church family “adoptions,” conversation partners, conversational English groups, intramurals, class study partners, holiday hosting, cultural events, and a variety of other ways. The purpose of these programs and methods […]
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 […]
The Master Plan of Evangelism and College Ministry
Few books have impacted my approach to campus ministry more than Robert Coleman’s The Master Plan of Evangelism. Don’t let the title fool you. It’s not just another book on evangelism. Instead, Coleman examines Jesus’s relationship with his twelve disciples to see how he equipped them for ministry. These twelve ordinary men led the greatest […]
Sow the Word
Some have recently suggested that downplaying a focus on the authority of the Bible is a necessary evangelistic strategy in reaching people who do not recognize the authority of the Bible. Much of my ministry is focused on reaching people from around the world who have no allegiance to the authority of the Bible whatsoever. […]
Extraordinary Prayer for Your Campus
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 […]
New Orleans Metro Area Collegiate Ministry Model
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 […]
Ideas for Training and Engaging Students in Evangelism
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 […]