Tag: ministry strategy

Leadership Development

Avoiding the Epic #FAIL in Ministry

Failure.

It’s probably one of the things we fear the most as ministry leaders.

But from where I stand, I think there are few things that would constitute true failure in ministry…

The abuse of leadership — most certainly.

Not tending to our own spiritual needs, and letting our cup run dry, such that we render ourselves ineffective would be another.

But I think much of what we do, and are called to be about, will include little failures here and there.

Big Ideas & 'Best Of'

Campus Mapping || A More Strategic Approach to Ministry on Campus

While at a conference last summer I had the chance to sit in on a session led by Creighton Alexander, Campus Pastor at the University of Alabama Wesley Foundation, where he talked about coming up with a strategy for ministry on campus.

He shared a lot of good stuff, but there was one idea in particular that seemed to jump out at me — and has stuck with me ever since — and it’s the idea of “mapping our campus.”

There’s a good chance that many of you already do this — in fact, we all do to a certain extent because we all have “strategic relationships” across campus (and if we don’t, we should!) — but Creighton’s idea, while simple, was profound to me.

Leadership Development

LESS IS MORE: Reversing the Crazy Pace of Ministry

It’s a new year and I’m resolving to make some changes.

This year, in regards to how I approach ministry with college students, I’m taking a ‘LESS IS MORE’ approach.

Why?

Because what I’ve been doing has not been working.

Cramming my calendar full of meetings and overwhelming the campus calendar with more and more ministry-related opportunities has not yielded the kind of ‘fruitful results’ that I’ve hoped for.

Leadership Development

A Campus Ministry Final Exam || REpost

It’s exam time on campus…

And I guess it only makes sense that at the end of the semester we would put ourselves through a “final exam” of sorts… right?

With all that has happened and hasn’t happened — with all of the feelings of relief, release, regret, ready-to-be-done-ness that we feel at the end of the term, it is important for us to consider how we might make these final couple of weeks before the Christmas holiday as fruitful as possible.