Off and Running! Thank God for more staff workers in DC this year, because things are happening here! After some long, sweaty afternoons manning signup tables on the quad, giving free stuff to freshman and exploring their beliefs with photo surveys, we rounded the troops for our 2008 Kickoff, a cookout at our staff bachelor pad. Thanks to rain from …
April 2008 Update
The Percentage Problem In campus ministry, building successful student-led movements often boils down to finding the perfect storm of two things – 1.) a felt spiritual need and 2.) a capacity for leadership. Typically, this has panned out to be most prevalent in the middle-of-the-road schools – the Slippery Rock U.’s, the Penn States, the Virginia Techs, — and we …
Horse of a different color…
Today was a lot of fun, it was a lot of newness, too. Bowie was a good time. Jacqueline and I got a chance to get to know some more students on campus. We hung out in the Game Room where they have pool tables, television with constant movies playing (the flick of the day was Jurassic Park 3), more …
Longish day…
Today has us headed to 3 different campuses, two for each of us. Carrie is headed to Prince George Community College to meet with the “Campus Crusaders for Christ” group that was student initiated there, we’re trying to help and resource them to reach their campus. I am headed, with Jacqueline, to Bowie State University in Maryland. We’ll be meeting …