Characteristics of Successful Groups: Part 2
This is a follow up to my last post in a series of the Characteristics of Successful Groups. As I mentioned the 5 things that pretty much all of our successful groups do well are: developing community being an officially recognized group well run/organized meetings hosting the Holy Spirit’s presence regular outreach I want to […]
Characteristics of Successful Groups: Part 1
The BASIC conference was incredible! As the conference room filled with 500 students worshipping together I was overwhelmed with how blessed I am to be a part of what God is doing among college students. One of our advisors mentioned at the conference that they would like to read about what characteristics we have seen […]
Start a Library
A month ago I talked about how leaders are readers. With all the reading that students do for their classes how can we encourage them to read books during college that can help them grow as leaders and in their walk with God? When I was in college I found it hard enough to read […]
Smell the Cheese Often
We just recently read the book Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson in the BASIC office. The book uses a simple story similar to a children’s story to communicate timeless principals about change. While some would not enjoy reading this book due to Johnson’s writing style there are some great applications for college ministry. […]
Starting Meetings on Time
After talking last week about how to run effective leadership meetings I wanted to briefly touch on one point I made and expand on it a little more. I mentioned that it is important to start the meeting on time and I talked about how when meetings don’t start on time you train people to […]
An Idea for Community Colleges
I was talking with Dominick Caruso who runs the BASIC group at Monroe Community College and he had an idea that I think could be very useful for campus ministry at community colleges. Community colleges can be some of the toughest places to maintain consistent ministry due to the high turnover rate and short time […]
Effective Leadership Meetings
Being involved as a student leader in BASIC and now helping to start new BASIC groups in the Rochester area, I’ve sat through quite a few leadership meetings. Some of those meetings have been incredibly productive and others have been very frustrating. So, here are a few tips on how to make leadership meetings as […]
Utilizing the BASIC Network
After reading a post from Benson Hines this morning about having “buddies” in campus ministry for encouragement, collaboration, and support I wanted to issue you a challenge. With the BASIC conference approaching (it’s less than a month away!) why not take the opportunity to network with other church advisors or student leaders? You could contact […]
The Strategic Process
As I’ve been attending monthly meetings and learning more about strategic planning I was recently given a new approach to how we can attack problems that arise or projects we want to carry out in our ministries. I put together the diagram above to accurately describe this method. Usually we go through the first method. […]
Leaders are Readers
Last week I talked about the Levels of Leadership. I referenced the article by former VISA CEO Dee Hock in which he said leaders should be spending 50% of their time self-managing. So, this week I want to talk about one of the main ways we as leaders can be continuously growing and developing. Harry […]