What Are We Doing Here?
For me and my campus ministries colleagues, the summer of 2013 has been an unusual one with time-intensive administrative reviews, reports, and […]
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Here I Go Again
Many times in ministry, especially college ministry, you feel like you are walking alone. Just drifting along, trying to survive, and isolated from others in ministry.
College Ministry has been described as the Navy Seals of ministry — It’s very hard work and no one ever gives you credit when it goes well (plus, some people erroneously call us Youth Ministers, a pet peeve of mine).
I am surrounded by a great church staff, but they often fail to grasp what college ministry is or have the tools to push me in my goals and desires.
The Cost of Being a Bridge Builder between LGBTs and the Church
I feel the costs of the corporate LGBT and Church disconnect have been well documented for what this culture war has left in its wake.
The broader LGBT community’s retelling of this story, in most cases, has the Bride acting more like Bridezilla than the Bride who, when the doors swing open for the first time, is standing in her gown, looking as beautiful as she has ever looked, ready to walk down the aisle and be sacramentally joined with God to the person she loves more than any other on the face of the earth.
And the Church’s retelling of this disconnect, at its core, is in most cases one of denominational and congregations division—separating what many thought was once one of the three unbreakable cords tied to the Lord for good works.
How Might Technology Change the Face of Higher Education by 2020?
60% of college presidents surveyed said they believe we’re going to see major changes in Higher Education by the year 2020 — just seven short years from now.
What’s driving this shift? A major factor is most assuredly is the high price of education.
In fact, 75% of adults polled in a recent Pew Research study said that college is too expensive for most Americans to afford, and 57% of adults said that U.S. Higher Education system fails to provide students with a good value for their money.
So what’s the alternative to traditional Higher Ed.? What’s a more cost-effective way for young people to get further education beyond high school?
The Cutting Edge of Some “Evagelism”
We had a visitor on campus last week — of the “street preacher” variety.
He stood at the edge of campus (where it’s legal for him to be), and shouted at students as the passed by, that they were going to hell — for a whole host of reasons.
Have you experienced this where you serve? I imagine some have.
It’s troubling on a number of levels.
The Power of Intentional Mentorship
Every four years, I wait with anticipation for the start of the Summer Olympic Games. This year, the world watches the Olympic triumphs of athletes around the world in London.
When I watch these athletes compete and win medals, I am reminded that their journey is a process, not only a solitary moment on the world stage.
These committed athletes train relentlessly with the assistance of coaches intentionally providing strategy, tips and pointers along the way.
As it is with the athletes preparing for their Olympic moment, so it should be with the intentional developing of college students and young adults for the rest of their lives!
I Love Jesus and I Love His Church
We need a redeemed and transformed ecclesiology.
Ecclesiology is simply a big seminary word for the way we think and talk about and practice this thing called Church.
It comes from the Greek word ekklesia, which means “a public gathering of people,” and is the word that gets translated “church” in the New Testament.
One BIG Idea For Keeping Supporters Invested In Your Campus Ministry
“Thank you so much for including your Campus Ministry reports in the church bulletin every week. They’re really encouraging and they help […]
Unframed: The Shared Responsibility for Ministering to Collegiates
Ephesians 2:10 says that college students are God’s workmanship…His masterpiece, they are created in Jesus to do good works that God outlined in His syllabus that they’d be involved in (yes, this is a paraphrase). Many students get to the university a work of art in progress. We can help provide them a frame in which to mount their life to the glory of God.
Are They Ready To Go?
If you’ve been serving students for very long at all, then you know that the summer months can be a challenging season for many of our students.
Spiritually speaking, many will struggle to re-engage back in the community of faith they were apart of before they left for college… (which assumes, of course, that they had one to leave in the first place).