Catalyst | Susan Isaacs | Be Still and Know Your Story: Writing Your Spiritual Autobiography
What is the story that you can no longer NOT tell? If you were to die tonight, what are the stories or […]
Tag: relational ministry
Catalyst | Francis Chan | HIS Presence Matters
In case you hadn’t picked up on it in previous posts… the theme for the Catalyst conference this year is simply: Be […]
Leadership Matters
More leadership nuggets from the Catalyst 2011 in Atlanta.
This one comes finance guru Dave Ramsey.
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Over the past 20 years, Dave has identified 5 core values that he believes will make the difference in our leadership and ministries:
Catalyst | Andy Stanley | Be Present
The more successful you are as a leader, the less accessible you will become. It’s not a bad thing… and it […]
Catalyst | David Kinnaman | You Lost Me
Are we making effective disciples? That can be a tough question to answer. It requires an honest assessment And statistics tell […]
Catalyst | Tim Elmore | Overcoming Artificial Maturity
I’m at the Catalyst Conference in Atlanta this week. It’s a major conference that draws upwards of 13,000 Christian leaders from around […]
Do You Encourage Students to Wrestle With God & Scripture?
It may seem like a dumb question, but I wonder… Do we really encourage our students to wrestle with their understanding […]
College Years as Desert Experience [?]
With all of the transition, struggle, change and formation that takes place during the college years, I wonder how our approach to […]
Why ‘Less is More’ on Your Calendar this Month
The beginning of the school year is often one of the busiest times in the life of college ministers. Every moment […]
It’s Important to Remember That Move-In Day is NOT About YOU
Most campuses I know of seem to have some sort of formal programming and process for welcoming students to campus, helping them to get moved in, and then oriented to their new community, before classes begin.
Most of us went through this process as a first-year student… once upon a time… and it may be that we have forgotten some of the emotions and overwhelming feelings of disorientation that often accompany this time of transition.
And on move-in day specifically, new students and parents are about one thing and one thing only — getting into (and then settled in) their dorm room.
So let me encourage us — each and every one of us — to be about that one thing as well.