The end of the semester is evaluation time. What went well and why? Where do we need to improve? Here are six questions to ask as you evaluate your large group event.
1. What is the purpose of it?
Is it for a wide variety of students? Is it meant to be an entry point? Or, is it meant for the core crowd or as a discipleship event? Is what we are doing consistent with our purpose?
2. Do we have the people, talents, and resources to pull off what we are attempting to do?
Having a large group worship event with a poor band or poor speaker is not helpful. Sometimes we continue to do something that was successful with a different group of leaders that are no longer there. Is it time to change the event to fit the resources now available?
3. Are we just doing a poor imitation of "The Poster Ministry"?
It is not unusual for ministries to simply try to imitate the happening ministry or a nationally known event that has resources way beyond a local ministry.
4. Is our event right, but it is being defeated by lack of preparation and attention to the details?
Your conclusion may be that you are doing the right event, but just not putting in the time and effort to make it successful. The next question is, Are you willing and able to put in the time and effort it really requires?
5. Are there other large group formats or styles that should be considered?
Church based ministries usually have more resources to pull off a different format where this is sometimes a struggle for a campus based ministry.
6. Is our meeting place or time the problem?
It is possible to be doing the right event in the wrong place or at the wrong time.
Excerpted from FIXING A BROKEN COLLEGE MINISTRY, an Amazon print or ebook.
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