Are We Becoming/Creating Contemplative Activists?
In my post yesterday I introduced a term that was new, to me, as of this week: Contemplative Activist It’s a term […]
Tag: student leaders
Ideas for September
Well, for most of us, the new school year has officially begun! I hope you are off to a good start! I […]
What Are Your Standards?
What are your standards for your leaders?
Do you have any?
Do they know what you expect?
Have you set the bar to high? To low?
How Do You Stand Out?
Have you ever stopped to think about what makes you (your ministry) unique?
What makes you different from the other ministries on campus?
What do you have to offer students that might make your ministry the one for them?
In a couple of posts last week I focused on training and equipping our student leaders to know why we do what we do (Do Your Students Know?), as well as how what we do meets a specific need on campus (How We ‘Fit In’ On Campus). I made the case for spending some significant time during the early stages of our training with leaders for helping them to see the BIG picture and really commit to learning it for themselves.
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 […]
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.