Why I Wrote FIXING A BROKEN COLLEGE MINISTRY

My book, FIXING A BROKEN COLLEGE MINISTRY, has just gone live on Amazon.  Here are the three reasons I wrote it. They matter, if you are in College Ministry, whether you read the book or not

1.  I could find ZERO resources on "College Ministry Revitalization"....ZERO!

 I have been serving as Lifeway's college ministry consultant in the area of Leadership Development now for ten years.  Part of that job is connecting with College Ministers who need help or have questions.  A regular call I have gotten through the years is, "How do I fix a broken college ministry?".  Most often it has been a person who has just gone to a job and they were hired to "fix it".  As they have surveyed the situation, it has looked more daunting with no place to start.  About a year ago, a friend called and asked, "What materials are there on "College Ministry Revitalization"?  Great question and I had zero for an answer.  So, I researched it and found.....zero.  That was the beginning of my project.  We need to not only be planting more College ministries, we need to be upping our game in the established ones.

2.  "The days of my being able to pay a full salary and benefits for someone to work with twenty-five (25) students is coming to an end."

 In visiting with a college ministry leader who supervises a significant number of college ministries, he said, "The days of my being able to pay a full salary and benefits for someone to work with twenty-five (25) students is coming to an end.".  As church and denominational funding is seeing some decline, there are more and more discussions about what to keep and what to not do...or do differently.  Fair or not, College Ministers are being held to a tougher standard of success or accountability due to tightening budgets.  All of us must be thinking and asking, what will it take for this ministry to go to another level?

3,  National studies say seven out of ten (7 of 10) students active in church in high school are making NO spiritual connections in college.

 In recent years, national studies continue to say seven out of ten (7 of 10) students active in church in high school are making no spiritual connections in college.  If that figure alarms us, then we cannot continue to do same old same old!

This book is NOT a guaranteed magic formula.   Every situation is different and all need a movement of God and His Spirit to be all that He would have it to be.  But, sometimes we are just stunned by the enormity of a task and there seems no starting place.  Hopefully, FIXING A BROKEN COLLEGE MINISTRY is and will be a starting place.  Maybe even it will lead someone else to write the second book on "College Ministry Revitalization" and it will be way better than this one.

Whether you read the book or not, are you thinking, asking, and praying, how do I lead my ministry to the next level?