15 Wise Sayings in College Ministry

1.  Good falls are made in the summer.

2.  To reach a particular campus group, reach someone in that group.  

3.  It takes three years to establish a college ministry or for it to become yours.  

4.  Who you reach determines who you cannot reach.  

5.  Once a student has been inside your facility or meeting space, they are more likely to come back.  

6.  A college ministry will almost always reflect the strengths and weaknesses of the leader and this is particularly true, the longer that leader has served in that role.  

7.  The UNFORGIVEABLE SIN of college ministry is not getting a student's name and contact information the first time they attend your event.  

8.  A meeting space will fill to only about 80% capacity on a regular basis and a meeting space with too many seats is a negative.

9. The quality of your publicity is a message about the quality of your ministry.

10. Pictures made at ministry events answer questions potential students do not even know to ask.

11. Money will not make a ministry, but it is hard to have much ministry without some money.

12. You cannot expect students to do something you are not willing to do or demonstrating in your own life.

13.  The person most likely to give money to your ministry is someone who has already given money to your ministry.

14.  What your ministry does the first two weeks of the fall will shape your ministry for the whole year.

15.  God is always doing more than we know.  Live and act on that belief  

Arliss Dickerson's book, A 3 Part College Ministry Success Formula, is available at Amazon.com/dp/B0BZ6Q7HSV and Tips for College Freshmen:  124 Tips for Fun, Faith & Good Grades is at Amazon.com/dp/B09QFB9DJ9.