Responding to Adversity
This week I wanted to share a guest post with you from Ryan Alsheimer. Ryan is a full-time campus minister with BASIC at SUNY Oneonta and a good friend. He and his wife Kimmy serve together and live in Oneonta, NY. Honestly, I was furious. I consider myself to be a fairly patient and laid […]
More Ideas for Using Technology: Cheap (Or Even Free) Leadership Training
Over the last five years webcasts and webinars have been growing in popularity. People are finding that they are great ways to get training from experienced leaders without having to travel to an event site and often the cost is cheaper as well. This is the third and final post in the series More Ideas […]
More Ideas for Using Technology: Anonymous Texting Q&A and Poll Questions
Over the past month my wife and I had the chance to speak at the SUNY Oneonta and SUNY Geneseo groups. With love and relationships as the theme of the upcoming BASICcon we decided to speak on the topic of finding “the one” and then finish up with a time of anonymous Q&A. Both of […]
More Ideas for Using Technology: Group Messaging
At the beginning of last year I did a 4 part series on the blog called Ideas for Using Technology where I shared a number of different ways to incorporate technology into your campus ministry. That series went over so well that I thought I’d do another highlighting some more ways to harness technology for […]
Two Upcoming Events
I wanted to take a break from my normal writing this week to draw your attention to two upcoming events for college ministry. BASIC Live and the Collegiate Day of Prayer are two great events that every college ministry should take part in. As you can see from the video, BASIC Live is the first […]
Critical Thinking: Removing ‘Can’t’ From Your Vocabulary (Part 2)
Last week I wrote about the importance of removing can’t from your vocabulary and how critical thinking can open new doors. At the end I promised to give you some practical steps for how you can begin thinking critically. The first thing to remember when starting this process is that there’s a difference between being […]
Critical Thinking: Removing ‘Can’t’ From Your Vocabulary (Part 1)
Critical thinking. For some people even the mention of it makes their brain hurt. But I’ve found it to be essential since I started working for BASIC. I’m certainly no pro at it, but I’ve realized just how useful it can be when you come across a problem or idea that seems hard to work […]
Staying In Tune With Each Generation
When I was in my senior year of college I noticed something. The people three years behind me – even two years – were very different from me and my friends. There was an obvious culture shift happening in our college ministry and it had nothing to do with me. This is when I first […]
Making A Not-To-Do List
So, the semester just started and you already feel completely swamped. May I suggest the “not-to-do” list? It’s never nearly as long as the to-do list. In a technological world overflowing with apps and software for making to-do lists (I currently use Asana and Things for this if you’re interested) there’s an obvious absence of […]
Talking About Love and Sex In College
As our team has been planning I’m getting really excited for the spring BASICcon coming up in April. The theme of this one is Love Is _____. We’ll be having real conversations about singleness, dating and God in today’s culture. The main reason that I’m anticipating what God is going to do at this conference […]