Your campus will not be reached without a core group of empowered leaders taking bold steps of faith in unison. Building a core group of leaders presents many challenges since students often misunderstand their purpose and ministry leaders can use...

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. Proclaim the Gospel The...

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. Presence In The Community...

  Street Youth Ministry hosts a prayer hour each week at the Campus House of Prayer (CHOP). It is attended by my summer intern (a Bible college student from Missouri), by a food volunteer (a different person each week makes...

Recently I was having dinner with a couple of friends when the conversation topic turned towards churches and ministries. More specifically, we were talking about things we liked, and things that we sometimes didn’t entirely agree with or had questions...

The following is an excerpt from my book Campus Renewal – A Practical Plan to Unite Campus Ministries in Prayer and Evangelism. We’re Sent Like Jesus Was Sent In Jesus’s longest recorded prayer in John 17, He said to His Father,...

I’m not in the habit of staying out incredibly late on Saturday nights. 5 years of being in the worship team at my church means a bright and early arrival at 7.15am on Sunday mornings to set up with the...

Discipleship. What exactly is this? An appointment between two people?  A time where two study scripture? Is it a relationship where two pray for one another? The fact is that it is all of the above and so much more....

One of the difficult aspects of campus ministry is the high turnover of students.  It seems that just when you get some forward momentum, you lose leaders to graduation.  It’s not just true of students.  There is also a high...