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Free Bible Study to Help Students Live on Mission

February 17, 2015 By Tim Casteel Leave a Comment

II Corinthians 2:12-6:2 is a powerful section of scripture that lays out how believing the gospel motivates us to proclaim the gospel. Easily my favorite passage on living missionally for Christ. Jeff Lark (Cru staff in the Red River Region) developed this great study on II Corinthians. The study follows the model of the fallen condition focus which is excellent at pointing … [Read more...] about Free Bible Study to Help Students Live on Mission

What We’ve Learned After One Semester in our New Community Group Structure

February 10, 2015 By Tim Casteel Leave a Comment

Several people have asked how our transition to a new Community Group structure went, now that we have one semester under our belts (I shared about it here). The short of it: the jury is still out, but overall we like it. We're going to make some minor tweaks and give it another shot next fall. Overall, our Community Group numbers are pretty down this year. But we knew … [Read more...] about What We’ve Learned After One Semester in our New Community Group Structure

50 Dollar Party

January 21, 2015 By Tim Casteel 1 Comment

This spring we’re giving each of our Community Groups a $50 bill to use to throw a party (an idea we stole from some other Cru movement - can’t remember who!).    We encouraged our leaders to take the $50 to their group and allow the group members to help decide how to invest the $50. It’s a fun, tangible expression of “we want our Community Group to be on mission to … [Read more...] about 50 Dollar Party

New Approach to Community Groups

August 21, 2014 By Tim Casteel 6 Comments

This year we are totally restructuring our Community Group system. For decades we've had a pretty typical model - Freshmen studies, Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors. From talking to Florida Cru, we really liked how their small groups are structured (with 650 students involved in 50 Community Groups, they must be doing something right!): Intergenerational studies … [Read more...] about New Approach to Community Groups

The Best Thing Our Staff Did This Year

August 18, 2014 By Tim Casteel 2 Comments

The absolute best thing our Staff did this past year was implement a once a month checkpoint with our Community Group leaders (we got the idea from University of Florida Cru). Here's why it was so helpful - our monthly CG coaching meeting kept our most important leaders motivated and missional all year long. As I said in a previous post, Community Groups are the backbone of … [Read more...] about The Best Thing Our Staff Did This Year

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Top 10 Books of the 2010s

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The goal of this blog is to share resources, best practices and strategy. Inspired by others who have taken the time to share their thoughts/learnings/resources, I decided to stop merely consuming and start contributing to the conversation.

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