Joe Fox: “It wasn’t… personal.” Kathleen Kelly: “What is that supposed to mean? I am so sick of that. All that means is that it wasn’t personal to you. But it was personal to me. It’s ‘personal’ to a lot...

For the next few weeks I will write about the eight practices of missional communities, what Campus Renewal Ministries calls “Spark Groups.” These eight practices are described with greater detail in CRM’s Spark Course, which trains missional community leaders. Partner With Others...

For the next few weeks I will write about the eight practices of missional communities, what Campus Renewal Ministries calls “Spark Groups.”  These eight practices are described with greater detail in CRM’s Spark Course, which trains missional community leaders. Pick...

Summer time at the Campus House of Prayer (CHOP) is always fairly quiet. With a majority of the 50,000 students at The University of Texas gone on vacations, mission trips, internships or just home for the break, it means less...

It’s that time of year again.  Summer missions season, which means my inbox is full of reports from students on the mission field. We print the reports and pray for the UT missionaries every week in the Campus House of...

This past week Campus Renewal Ministries staff spent several days together in New York City praying and planning toward the year to come. We are a small team compared to many campus ministries, but God is using us to create...

This morning I had a great conversation with my friend Colby May.  We met to discuss something awesome that God is doing on campuses across Texas and other states.  Many campuses now have Christian retreats for incoming freshman just weeks...

This week I had the joy of meeting two students from the University of Texas at Arlington.  A group of students on their campus had been leading united prayer on campus for a few years.  Recently, one of them started...

Recently I was talking with a mentor who is familiar with our work at the University of Texas and some of the difficulty we were having maintaining vision due to turnover in leadership.  He shared a great illustration with me...

The following is an excerpt from my book Campus Renewal – A Practical Plan to Unite Campus Ministries in Prayer and Evangelism. One Church on Campus In God’s eyes, there is one church on our campus. All who confess the name...