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...

In my last blog entry, I discussed the effect that Missional Community leading can have on Christian Students.  They are encouraged heavily to spend time outside of the Church bubble, and like Jesus, spend time with people and in environments...

Back in 2003, during my freshman year at The University of Texas at Austin, I had the opportunity to attend the Urbana Conference in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. If you’ve never heard of it, it’s a conference held every 3 years for...

One of the most significant values of Missional Communities, is also the least recognized.  MC’s are created and sold based on the value of conversion. In other words, “adopt missional communities as your outreach program, and you will expand as...

Some students are exceptionally good at managing their time.  They find a way to go to their classes, hold a part-time job, sleep well, exercise, eat right, spend time with friends, and of course, enjoy many organized functions with their...

Looking Back Earlier today I got a call from an old friend.  One of the guys that was a part of an old missional community I led for runners.  It’s funny, that as I consider my feelings about the group...

Over the years, I have had the opportunity to sit in on many sermons, given by many pastors.  Perhaps this can be attributed to the nature of my job over the last 5 years, to work with campus ministers of...

Two weeks ago forty students from ten different campus ministries at UT spent three days together at the “Mission(all) Retreat.”  The retreat, aimed at equipping many of this year’s missional community leaders, was a collaborative effort.  College pastors from eight...

As students are being encouraged to become immersed and imbedded in the greater university cultures around them, missional churches are both excited and terrified of the impact on their pre-existing ministry communities. On the one hand, these missional churches (and...

Thoughts on Verge During the Verge conference in Austin , TX last school year, we were blessed to have a pre-meeting to the conference.  During this time, many of the nation’s leaders in missional community thinking came together with local leaders that...