I posted on Facebook the question, "Who was the best College Minister you have known and what was the characteristic or practice that made them that way?"
I was flooded with responses. Many naming who their Campus Minister had been and writing a paragraph about them or listing all the great things they had done. As I read through all of them, there were 5 Characteristics or practices that summed up what made them matter in those former students' lives. They are not in any particular order.
Here are the 5 Practices and Characteristics of these much loved College Ministers:
Highly Relational
Role Model
Mentor/Discipler
Developed Leaders
Taught the Bible and Made it Relevant to the College Experience.
I am always studying and trying to learn how College Ministers can best focus and spend their time and energy that affects college students' lives for Christ. These five areas may be one of the best lists of what it means to be an effective College Minister.
How are you doing in these 5 areas? Give some thought to how you can best be intentional in each AND is there an area you need to invest a bit more time and effort?
Arliss Dickerson is a college ministry advocate and author whose college ministry books may be found at Amazon.com/dp/B0BMW8NPMN.
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