I haven’t posted here in a while, and for that I’m sorry. Not sorry for you, because you’ve had other things to do and other things to read that left you smarter than if you’d been here. No, I’m sorry, because it irks me when I get out of routine. I got out of the routine of posting here, and it took me a while to get back.
With that being said, I have been disturbed by some things. Here are some of the questions I have been pondering?
Is there a more effective way to do student ministry than a big midweek service and satellite discipleship? If technology is such a huge part of culture, especially student culture, how can we leverage it for the Gospel more effectively? How can I integrate students into the larger church body more effectively when it doesn’t look like the services we put on? Serving, leading, even attendance… How can I duplicate myself in my leaders better? More often? Is it more important to care for who shows up or reach for who’s not there?
Congratulations, you just read the topics for the next 5 days here at “thoughts of a student pastor”. What questions have you been pondering?
I don’t do this a lot, and just because I’ve never recommended “your” blog doesn’t mean I don’t think it’s good…however
I seriously want to point you toward Kevin Lloyd. Kevin is the NextGen Pastor at Stevens Creek Community Church in Augusta, GA. As luck would have it I followed Kevin at a church in Mobile when he moved to Augusta back in 2003. He left to help plant a church and returned after getting it up and running. I’ve followed him from a distance for several years, but found his blog a few months ago.
He has some great, practical thoughts on leadership, student and family ministry, personal struggles, and more.
He doesn’t know I’m doing this, definitely didn’t ask me too, and he might pick up 0 readers, but I encourage you to go read and subscribe to his blog. You’ll be glad you did!
I love the content and the creativity of this promo for a new series at Cross Point in Nashville. Their pastor, Pete Wilson, blogs regularly and has commented here a few times. Plus, I found out a few months ago that several people I went to high school with work at or attend Cross Point so that’s pretty cool.
If/when we do toss them we would go with High School, Middle School, and College under the umbrella of North Student Ministries. We are pretty much doing this anyway. As we advertise outside of the church, anything with “the Shift” is accompanied by MPN Middle School or something like that. Even in the church, probably a majority of the people attending don’t automatically associate “Link” with HS.
What are your thoughts? Have you done this? Seen it done? What are the benefits, if any, to ministry names?
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