It Takes A Village
The local church is not something I dived into as a college student or something I built a strong partnership with as […]
The local church is not something I dived into as a college student or something I built a strong partnership with as […]
Few would argue that some of the most passionate, gifted energy among us is housed in those who are college-aged. And yet […]
In a previous post I explored the question: Are we the local church OR an arm reaching on to the campus?
One of the big reasons I tend to believe that we are an ‘arm’, and not the local church, is because of the context — and more specifically — who controls it.
Campus ministry is, to a certain extent, subject to the academic institution. Unlike the local church, campus ministries will have to — again, to a certain extent — play by a certain set of rules… that they have no say in creating.
I love campus ministry! There’s no doubt in my mind that this is what God has created me for… It’s such a […]
I wrote this blog post after returning from a mission trip with eleven students. It is mostly in response to a deep conversation we had about what will happen when the students leave college. See, they get it – they’re tired of churches that are more concerned with creating their own world rather than changing THE world for the sake of The Kingdom.
So as our students walk across their stages and receive their long-expected degrees, will there be a church they can be part of? Will there be a movement of Jesus followers who actually pray as Jesus taught us… and believe it?
They’re done, but not gone. They’re college graduates — prepared and equipped to go out and make a difference in the world […]
What do you do when a bigger, more well-known, more financially funded ministry moves in just down the street from you? […]
This past Sunday, as a part of Welcome Week on our campus, the Office of University Ministries hosted a Church Fair. We told […]
We need to recognize that we are on the same team! It’s high time that all of us involved in ministry stop […]