A few years back we asked about 50 students to rank 1 through 17 in order of the value of our different ministries in their minds. I put some things on the list just to make sure we had a long list for their thinking. I knew our large group worship would come out number one. One thing that I listed was the individual meeting that I (then later when we were larger) or one of our staff had with each of our Ministry Team leaders.

We met at a set time each week and I told them that we would spend the first half talking about them personally and the second half talking about their ministry responsibilities. Our 50 students filling out the 1 to 17 list rated it as the number one most helpful and needed thing we did!

Through the years, we had many students go into ministry. People would ask what we did to promote that. I had no answer except, we did not promote it and it must just be the Lord. I have come to believe the vehicle that God most used to lead students into the ministry were those individual one on one mentoring sessions we did each week.

It takes a lot of time, but God uses it in big ways and it multiplies your ministry by building up your student leaders…..it also caused more of our students to want to be Team Leaders.