5 Questions to Ask this Time of Year

1.  Who are you having lunch with this week?  Lunches are connections times.  People are just more relaxed over a meal and you see their real self.  Is it a pastor, another Campus Minister, a student considering a ministry calling?  Some lunches need to be away from work, but lunch is a super valuable ministry building time.

2.  Who is a regular at your events that you have NOT seen lately?  Students disappear not by intent by life.  Three weeks of crazy tests or a change in work schedule can throw them off.  But, if no one notices they are gone and seeming don't care, why should they come back?

3.  Which one of your student leaders needs some special encouragement and help right now? All student leaders struggle at some time or other.  Again, it may be three weeks of crazy tests or getting a handle on their new leadership role.  Instead of their calling this summer and saying I decided to drop out of my leadership position, now is the time to invest in them a little special attention and perhaps even appreciation.  Sometimes a leader is doing great, but their role is hard and they are not getting the response they had hoped for.  They may just need to hear they are doing great or that you see them.

4.  What is something different you need to try that might be a change to make for fall? Yes, I say this EVERY YEAR at this time.  The most obvious possibility is checking out something different for your weekly event.  Does it need to be another day, time, or place maybe?  Try it now.  Some things you just don't know about until you do it.  Do you need somehow to vary the format of one of your weekly events?  Try something different now.

5.  What do you like and not like about our weekly main event or what is something we need to do better? Do evaluations and suggestions at your large group event now instead of at the last one of the semester.  Often, by the end of the semester, you are down to the hard core that are going to come no matter what.  Doing evaluations earlier in the semester, often gets you a better cross section of replies.

Bonus Question:  What are some topics, questions, or biblical issues you would like to see addressed next year in our programming?  What are questions students on campus (not in any ministry) are asking or talking about?

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