Sponsoring Church
What does it mean to be a sponsoring church?
Partner with BASIC to plant a BASIC chapter on a college campus near you. We partner with churches that have a desire to reach young adults and disciple the next generation, who love people and building relationships, are committed to raising up advisors from within their church to lead the group, and are within a 30 minute drive to a local college campus.
What to expect
Mid March
Fill out a Sponsoring Church Application to express interest in sponsoring a group.
June
Connect with our BASIC team, to discuss strategy for launching a group.
August
Select a volunteer advisor from your church for our team to train to lead a BASIC group.
Late August
Reaching the campus begins!
Step One
Fill out a Sponsoring Church Application and submit it.
Step Two
Wait for a BASIC team member to contact you.
Step Three
Prayerfully find a volunteer from your church to sign on as an advisor.
Even if the senior pastor won’t be the person that leads the group directly, we prefer the senior pastor to be involved at the beginning of this process. We have found that pioneering a new campus ministry is most successful when working with churches where the passion for reaching college students is important to the senior pastor.
This may entail filling out the sponsoring church application, joining in on phone, video, or in-person planning meetings, and securing the volunteer from your church who will work with the Planter. Once we’ve gone through the initial setup of the program and the leader of the group is identified and trained, the senior pastor does not need to be involved as much, outside of occasional check ins on the leader running the group.
The volunteer from your church is someone who will give their time to work with the our team in pioneering the group and, through training, eventually assume leadership of the ministry as the church advisor. A church advisor is someone selected by a local church to minister and give direction to a BASIC group. The advisor is critical to the success of a BASIC group since he or she provides leadership, stability, and care for the group.
There is no mold for what this volunteer church advisor should look like. Successful advisors have been male, female, single, married, young adults, and empty-nesters. The important qualities are a burden and vision for reaching college students for Christ, and a willingness to put in the energy and time required. Ideally, this person would be able to make at least a 3-4 year commitment. However, we realize that sudden and unexpected life changes can occur, so we will not hold your church or the volunteer to that commitment if something comes up.
Oversight of the Advisor will be a partnership between the sponsoring church and BASIC. We will provide training, coaching, and some care from our offices. The church will provide additional care through helping the Advisor make connections, form relationships, and regular communication.