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The Critical Event

August 20, 2014 By Tim Casteel 2 Comments

“The Critical Event” – a trained person taking a non-trained person to share their faith. For Montana State Cru, The Critical Event is the most important measurement of staff's success on campus. It's what they celebrate. click to read more about their Cru movement.  Ever since I heard that concept from Montana State, it has shaped much of our philosophy of ministry in … [Read more...] about The Critical Event

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

Students can do ministry – we can help

August 12, 2013 By Tim Casteel 1 Comment

In Cru, we talk a lot about being "Student Led, Staff Directed". But I fear that staff communicate to students, often more by actions than words: “We staff would love to reach this campus on our own but since we don’t have the manpower to do it, we’re gonna need some of you students to help us out.” Bud Wilkinson, legendary former head coach at OU was once asked, “what … [Read more...] about Students can do ministry – we can help

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Top 10 Books of the 2010s

January 26, 2020 By Tim Casteel 13 Comments

My Top Books of 2019

January 3, 2020 By Tim Casteel 1 Comment

My Top Books of 2018

January 26, 2019 By Tim Casteel 2 Comments

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About Tim Casteel

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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