Tag: Shaping Their Future

Student Culture, Trends & Issues

New Book: CAMPUS gODS (to Release Fall 2013)

Franklin, Tennessee, June 18, 2013—Seedbed Publishing has entered an agreement to publish Dr. Guy Chmieleski’s second book, Campus gods: Exposing the Idols that Can Derail Your Present and Destroy Your Future. (working title)

“The university campus may be the most strategic soil in the kingdom of God and we must work together to cultivate it for the twenty-first-century world, said Dr. Chmieleski. “With the dual trends of the college years as an extended period of adolescence and the rise of a highly genericized version of the Christian faith, it is imperative to creatively and compellingly infuse the whole gospel of grace and truth into the spiritual life of the campus.”

“One of Seedbed’s core commitments is to the college campus. We have a tremendous interest and energy for publishing a rich theological vision for life, faith, and future vocation geared for college students and the campus ministries who serve them,” said J. D. Walt, Seedbed’s sower-in-chief.

Spiritual Formation

My #iMentor Story | Ashlee Alley

I mentor because I love seeing people thrive. I mentor because I was mentored. I mentor because mentoring is at the core of the Christian life.

I was a college student who had a plan, some abilities, and was willing to work hard. And I was on track to carry out my plan to become a physical therapist. Until I encountered several mentors. Man, did they mess up my life! Or rather, they were voices for God to mess up my life…for the better.

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My #iMentor Story | Ken Dillard

I mentor because I was mentored.

I was young and just starting seminary. My first seminary professor in my first seminary class walked in slowly carrying a large stack of books and papers. He set them down on his desk, looked across the hundred or so students in the classroom and said, “Beloved, let’s begin.”

“Beloved?” I responded with a bit of sarcasm in my mind. He doesn’t even know me. Am I going to have to sit through King James lectures all semester?

But sit under his lectures I did, and I might have even learned some of the content as well. But the real lesson was always, “Beloved.”

Spiritual Formation

My #iMentor Story | Aaron Smith

Why I Mentor…

When I entered college at the University of Cincinnati, my goal was to get away from the calling that I knew God had on my life. I knew He had called me to ministry, but I wanted no part in it.

My mother sent an email to the Campus Pastor for the Baptist Collegiate Ministry at UC, Ken Dillard. He contacted me and invited me to a gathering of Christians on campus.

I reluctantly went — and things have never been the same since then.

Spiritual Formation

My #iMentor Story | Sarah Martin

Why I Mentor…

I love doing life and ministry with young adult women. More often than not, these young women teach me and pour into my life with their fresh perspectives. Here are three lesson’s I’ve learned from spending time with my “slightly” younger girlfriends that I mentor.

Spiritual Formation

My #iMentor Story | Koby Miller

I didn’t grow up desiring to someday be a mentor. I “fell” into it when a colleague suggested I interview for a Resident Director (R.D.) position. I was looking for a new job and it seemed like an adventure — especially since the university was in Southern California!!!

After over 20 years of R.D. life and serving with over 170 Resident Assistants (R.A.s), I can truly say that I am a different person from interacting and walking with many wonderful college students.

Big Ideas & 'Best Of'

A Few Things I Want You to Know Before the Release of Shaping Their Future on March 11th

Friends! I find it hard to believe my first book Shaping Their Future: Mentoring Students Through Their Formative College Years will release one month from today — on March 11th!!

It just doesn’t seem real to me. But my publisher assures me this is really happening.

In preparation for its release, I’ve made a few changes to the blog that I’d like to tell you about.

Big Ideas & 'Best Of'

WINNERS of the Book Cover Contest!

A BIG THANKS to all of you who took the time to cast your vote for which cover we should use on my new book!

We had well over 100 respondents — and some great feedback on both covers — that our publishing team will be working through.

I can imagine that which ever cover wins, it will be improved upon based on the comments you shared — so THANK YOU!

Now, the winners of the book cover contest are: