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...

The following is an excerpt from my book Campus Renewal – A Practical Plan to Unite Campus Ministries in Prayer and Evangelism. College Ministries Before For a long time campus ministries competed with one another. Students would talk among themselves about...

  Although some take summer classes, many college students leave their campuses during the summer to get a taste of “the real world” by working as a summer intern in their career field. For some Christian students, it may seem...

That’s me, months before God got ahold of me during my freshman year of high school. I was an angry teenager looking for meaning in athletic success and popularity, when a man named Barry Bowling, from Student Venture (Campus Crusade’s...

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...

Recently I had the opportunity to catch up with a friend whom I haven’t seen in a while. As we spent the day wandering around enjoying the sights, sounds and food of the city, our conversation soon turned to reminiscing...

For the first time this semster, I had a roommate I didn’t choose. We had never met before we arrived at our apartment to move in, and we didn’t know anything about each other. Many college students experience this with a “potluck”...

  Jesus told his followers to “Go” make disciples in every nation.  On our campuses we don’t have to “Go” very far.  God has brought the nations to us.  Our campuses are filled with international students.  Since many universities are...

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,...