I believe Steve Masters, who is the BCM Director at LSU, is the best College Minister in the country at getting Freshmen names AND following up on them. Here are 14 things Steve does...and some benefit many others.. You will find something here you can do or that will stimulate a new idea that will work for you.
1. LSU has a question on their Admissions Application requesting religious preference. These names and their contact information is made available to the religious organizations at LSU. We secure the Baptist preference names. This is our BEST method of securing names. We get six times as many names form this as all of the other methods we use combined.
2. From LSU Orientations for incoming freshmen. And for high school junior and seniors that are considering LSU. We are at all LSU Orientations.
3. From local churches. We ask each of them to provide us with the names of their graduating high school seniors.
4. From Louisiana Baptist Churches. I coordinate an email for all of the BCM's in Louisiana to all of the Student Ministers and church secretaries asking for the names of their graduating high school seniors.
5. From local and state Christian schools....Baptist and Non-Denominational. I send them the Transition Cards and ask them to have them filled out for us by the graduating seniors. Transition Cards ask for name, address, name of parents, church membership, their choice of schools, and if they experienced a call to vocational ministry.
6. From our Baptist Association Camps and Conference Centers. I send them Transition Cards and ask them to have seniors to fill them out and they mail them to me.
7.From the State wide Student Evangelism Conference for 6th through 12th grade students. We secure the names of juniors and seniors that attend.
8. From our "Parents Letter" to the parents of all incoming freshmen whose names we secure. We ask them to share the names and contact information of friends of their son or daughter. There have been sever times where the friend got involved and the son or daughter did not.
9. From the Freshmen whose names we secure. We ask them for names of friends that we can invite to the BCM.
10. From Centrifuge and Student Life Camps. We get names every year from them from the Transition Cards.
11. The National Collegiate Ministry Coalition. This is a network I set up several years ago to secure names from Non-Denominational camps and Conference Centers. The coalition is made up of CRU, the Navigators, Intervarsity, and other national ministries. Dan Allen is in the national collegiate ministry office for CRU. He is paying for the printing of cards I designed. He is contacting over 20 Camps and Conference Centers about getting names of their seniors.....Kanakuk, Pine Cove, Sky Ranch, Camp Ozark, etc. He is going to provide me with names of Baptists.
12. From Instagram. Our Associate Director and Intern check out Instagram Grous such as LSU Class of 24, LSU Freshmen 21, etc. They comment on posts and invite students to the BCM.
13. From Zoom Calls. We invite freshmen to participate and we ask them to invite their friends.
14. This is a new one this year, Freshmen Hangouts. We are going to have several across Louisiana at the home of a freshman or a BCM Leader in Shreveport, New Orleans, etc. A BCM staff member and BCM Leaders will eat dinner with freshmen and connect with them. We will invite freshmen whose names we have secured in the area to attend and to invite friends.
Steve Masters is the Baptist Campus Minister at LSU. His email is lsubcm@eatel.net. He makes some of these lists he obtains nationally to different state college ministry offices.
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