The College Ministers Fellowship is July 8-10 from noon to noon at the Baptist Student Center at Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi. The College Ministers Fellowship is one of my two favorite meetings (the other is the Collegiate Summit). This informal meeting was started as a result of a handful of BSU/BCM Directors who just wanted to get together and swap ideas in a very informal setting.
Many meetings are speaker driven while this one is White Board driven. What do you want to know? What have you tried that works? Who are some speakers you have used? How do you reach freshmen? There is no registration fee and most meals are provided free of cost by Southern Baptist Seminaries and agencies.
For some the best part is finding someone who is on the same page and just being able to get off in a corner and talk it out. There is a free morning for golf, movies, shopping or sleeping...or more getting with whomever you want to get with. Your cost is your travel and lodging.
Back in the 1980's a group of Baptist Campus Ministers were sitting around a table in a fast food restaurant after a formal session of a regional collegiate ministers meeting exchanging ideas. Someone said, "This is way better than the conference. Wouldn't it be great if we could do this for two or three days?". The next summer about ten College Ministers met at Arkansas State University and did just that. And, The College Ministers Fellowship was born. I credit it with being a time of encouragement, fun, and some of the best and most helpful ideas I have ever heard in college ministry meetings. The single best thing that grew our ministry at Arkansas State I learned at one of these meetings.
Steve Masters, the BCM Director at LSU (lsubcm@eatel.net) is the coordinator of this meeting. You can contact him for details or to indicate you will be attending. I hope to see you there.
Arliss Dickerson is the author of five college ministry books available in eBook format for 99 cents each at Amazon.com.
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