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Sending out Leaders Creates More Leaders (or the genius of launching multiple movements)

December 12, 2016 By Tim Casteel Leave a Comment

Recently my bosses came into town for a campus visit. As we gathered, my team shared about what God is doing. They also shared of their need, their desires, and their pursuits. Our staff team is made up of 4 independent, contextualized teams (see this excellent video from Intervarsity on contextualized movements). So on our team of 9, we actually have 4 teams: 3 CFM … [Read more...] about Sending out Leaders Creates More Leaders (or the genius of launching multiple movements)

How To Reach Freshmen in the First Week

July 24, 2014 By Tim Casteel 2 Comments

Here at the University of Arkansas, pretty much everything we do in the first week to reach freshmen was gleaned from Brian McCollister. Brian is a national director with Cru who is one of the best in the world at reaching freshmen and building a movement. He served for over 20 years as a Campus Director at Ohio University. The basics we do to reach freshmen the first … [Read more...] about How To Reach Freshmen in the First Week

The Two Most Important Days of the Year

July 17, 2014 By Tim Casteel Leave a Comment

I was recently looking over some notes from a talk given by my friend Brian McCollister, a national director with Cru and a guru on how to build a college ministry. He asserts that, in college ministry, the two most important days of the year are: The first day of school The first day of fall retreat The First Day of School Really, it's whatever day you do your big push … [Read more...] about The Two Most Important Days of the Year

Top Takeaways from Large Cru Movements – Part 1

August 8, 2012 By Tim Casteel 10 Comments

Largest Cru Movements

I want to wrap up the series on Large Cru Movements with 2 posts on my Top Takeaways. Click for Part 2 (click here for the Intro of the series) If you want to go back and read about each campus here are the 8 Cru Movements I profiled: University of Florida Montana State Michigan State Cal Poly- San Luis Obispo Miami of Ohio NC State Ole Miss Penn … [Read more...] about Top Takeaways from Large Cru Movements – Part 1

Large Cru Movements – NC State

August 6, 2012 By Tim Casteel 6 Comments

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This is part of a series: Learning from Large Cru Movements- a look at 8 of the largest Cru movements in the U.S.  Read the Series intro here. This post is a summary of two conversations I had with NC State staff – in Summer of 2008 and 2011. So some of the content may not 100% reflect the current reality at NC State Cru. But it’s such good stuff, it is worth sharing all of … [Read more...] about Large Cru Movements – NC State

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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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