Reaching Freshmen
One of the most important components of reaching freshmen is securing their name and contact information. Here are ways we do so at our BCM. How to Secure Names and Contact Information of Freshman 1. Names from local and state churches. (1) State events(2) Local Association Camps(3) Attending at BCM events such as our Senior Night(4) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Freshman Year Transition: 3 Things First Year Students Need to Thrive
As first-year students flood our campuses, we have the opportunity to meet them at a crucial crossroads. Many of them feel excited, overwhelmed, and uncertain. Most are desperate for true friendship and belonging. It’s a time of incredible transition, and they need support. Sadly, thirty percent of these students will drop out of college after […]
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 […]
Prayer Walking Guide
Someone once said that prayer walking is praying onsight with insight. It’s one thing to “know” about a campus, but it is another thing to walk where students walk and see what students see. This is a guide to give you some suggestions of things to pray. There are going to be a variety of […]
Decoding Your Campus
As a campus ministry leader, we are missionaries to the campus. Just like any mission, campus ministry has a “missional code” that needs to be broken. A Perspectives course I took revealed embracing learning is an essential first step for any missionary. We must learn the culture and language of the people we want to […]
Fall Outreach Strategy
The first few weeks of the fall semester are the most important time for you to reach students. It’s harvest time! Do you remember your first weeks as a freshman in college? The friends and choices students make in the first weeks often impact the rest of their lives. Our ministry believes that the first […]
Campus Ministry Spotlight: Tennessee Tech University
Located in Cookeville, Tennessee, Tennessee Technological University is a regional university with a strong emphasis in engineering. The campus primarily enrolls students from Tennessee, however, there is a significant population of students enrolled from other countries. With a good balance of students from both urban and rural settings, TTU’s campus is appealing because of […]