“To be a follower of Christ in the early twenty-first century requires a way of being in the world that resists being sucked into the numbing glare of [our phones].”Alan Noble - Disruptive Witness Here are a couple tools you can use to begin to understand and fight our phone's effects on us spiritually: a 4 page article and a 45 minute video. The Spiritual Effects of … [Read more...] about The Spiritual Effects of Distraction
College Ministry
Turning Drowning Students into Christ-Centered Laborers
I don’t want to lead with Cru anymore - I just need to focus on self-care and my mental health.- upperclassman student leader On the college campus, with increasing frequency, we’re seeing upperclassmen leaders in our ministry struggling to keep their heads above water. Unable to personally thrive, they are completely unable to love and serve others. These are not average … [Read more...] about Turning Drowning Students into Christ-Centered Laborers
What if there’s no fall? College ministry on an empty campus
How do you plan for a fall of ministry with the looming possibility of no college students on campus? Let’s talk about: What we know right nowWhat we can do about it What we Know Right Now One thing is for certain, a LOT is going to change over the summer in the world of Higher Ed. Here’s what we know right now in late April 2020: There’s a good chance the fall … [Read more...] about What if there’s no fall? College ministry on an empty campus
Good Clean Fun Music Playlist
If you've ever tried to make a playlist for a College Ministry meeting, you've found that it's not easy to find fun songs that are clean and that appeal to an ethnically (and spiritually) diverse college student audience. Notice any pattern in the Top 50 songs? According to Newsweek's article How Songs with Explicit Lyrics Came to Dominate the Charts, more than 2/3 of the … [Read more...] about Good Clean Fun Music Playlist
The Perfect Spiritual Interest Survey
When it comes to the fall in college ministry, as Paul Worcester has said - It's All About the Contacts! Because of that, a lot of thought and time has gone into crafting a perfect spiritual interest survey: how to throw the net broadly but not so broadly so as to become useless. We aim to survey about 3,000 students in the first two days of school. The problem we run … [Read more...] about The Perfect Spiritual Interest Survey