Revisiting The Great Commission On Campus
Jesus tells us in Matthew 28 to make disciples. We practice that well through church and ministry activity but often times we […]
Category: Leadership Development
[B]leading Change
Sometimes change can be painful. And if change can sometimes be painful, then leading change has the potential to be down right […]
Students, Money & God… A Transformational Mix
Yesterday was a good day. After 21 days of prayerfully “Living A Better Story” we had roughly 400 students show up to […]
On Teaching Students to be Healthy
We’ve reached Day 4 — the final day — of our week of leadership training with our new student leaders. Tomorrow […]
Bursting the Bubble
Something special happens when we let students into our home… Have you ever noticed this? No matter how they view us on […]
How We ‘Fit In’ On Campus
In a previous post I asked the question: Do your students know WHY you do what you do? I suggested that you […]
Do Your Students Know?
Do your students know… why you do what you do? Do they understand your mission on campus? Have they caught your vision […]
The Dark Side of Leadership
When leaders fall it’s not pretty. When Christian leaders fall it seems even worse. The pain. The hurt. The confusion. The impact. […]
Open Source Leadership
Student leaders are back and training is in full swing. There is a mix of nerves and excitement, anxiety and anticipation in the air as we pray and prepare for new and returning students to populate campus.
As the planning season of our ministry preparation for the upcoming year is coming to a close, my thoughts are focused on how we do what we’ve been called to do — better than we’ve ever done it before.
Increasingly, those of us in ministry leadership are being pulled away from the old, top-down, style of leadership in order to be effective and meet the needs of this generation.
Students want in.
On every level of the process and experience.
And they won’t stand for it any other way.
Don’t Count Me Out
The fall is by no means the best time to be looking to fill leadership positions — BUT, if we still find ourselves with needs to fill, there can be some fantastic leaders that present themselves in the fall who have the potential to make a serious impact on our teams and ministry efforts.
Four ‘kinds’ of students that come to mind are: the transformed, the transfer, the freshman and the wounded.