More on Generation Y
In my last post I mentioned Tim Elmore who has done a lot of work studying children and students who are classified as Generation Y or the Millenial generation. Tim breaks this down even further into the class he calls Generation iY, which he considers any person born from 1990 on. He gives this generation […]
A Culture of Challenge
The BASIC staff has been reading through the book Crazy Love by Francis Chan this past month and as we discussed one of the chapters we got into a conversation that I felt could apply very much to college students. Chan talked about how there are times in the Gospels that Jesus challenged those following […]
7 Leadership Questions
I came across a brief blog post this past week titled 7 Leadership Development Questions to Ask Yourself. The post was written by Mac Lake who is the Chief Launch Officer of The Launch Network, a new church planting network based out of Atlanta, Georgia. As I read over the 7 questions (which only takes […]
Planning to Plan
Hopefully you have started doing some planning for next semester with your leaders. Whether you’ve already done some planning or you usually put it off until after the holidays I want to suggest that you plan to plan. What do I mean by that? The church I attend plans out what they will preach on […]
Keeping Students Plugged In Over Break
With winter break rapidly approaching it’s important to think about ways to keep students connected over the month or so that they will be away from school. Yes, winter break is a great time for us to relax (which you should take advantage of), but putting in a little time to minister to students over […]
Faith in College Resource
I wanted to make you aware of a resource called Faith in College by Abbie Smith that is on sale through December 31st for small groups from CollegeLeader.org. This is a study guide that goes along with the book by Abbie Smith called Can You Keep Your Faith in College?. The study guide is perfect […]
A Christmas Event
I wanted to follow up last week’s post with another great event idea. This one incorporates an aspect of serving the community and comes straight from our BASIC group at Onondaga Community College! Last year the OCC BASIC group held an event called the Christmas ExtravaCANza and they are doing it again this year. The […]
Study Day Event
With the end of the semester approaching and Thanksgiving this week I wanted to give you an event idea that incorporates fun activities and a lot of food! Every semester Blackhawk Church in Madison, Wisconsin holds a study day for the surrounding colleges. The week of finals volunteers make food in mass quantities and provide […]
Welcome Packet
I want to follow up my post from last week with another good idea for making new people feel welcome in your group. When Cheryl and I attended the SUNY Oswego BASIC group as students they used to give out welcome packets to new students and when we visited this semester they had updated it […]
Leadership Position: Social Connector
If your group keeps having students come to a meeting and not come back there may be various reasons for why they don’t come back. Many times though it’s because students don’t feel like they fit in. This idea will work for any group size, but really needs to be implemented once a group gets […]