Euro CSM: Brussels 2006

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Euro CSM Brussels 2006

• Campus Ministry Program Development

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Creating a Missional Community with Christ at its
Center

• That which was from the beginning, which we have
  heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we
  have looked upon, and our hands have handled,
  concerning the Word of life
• (we) bear witness and declare to you that eternal
  life which was with the Father
• That you also may have fellowship with us and
  truly our fellowship is with the Father and with
  His Son Jesus Christ I John 11,2,3

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Making Jesus the Heart of it all

• Intimate relationship with Jesus lies at the
  heart of the New Testament church
• Proclamation of eternal life through personal
  relationship with Christ
• Invitation to others to join our community which
  has Jesus at its center bringing us into
  relationship with the Triune God

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The Five-Fold Ministry

• Flows out of the early churchs experience in
  Acts (240-42)
• The Risen Christ is now with them and all that
  happens ie prayer, worship, discipleship,
  fellowship, and witness arises out of their
  relationship with Him
• Apart from Him, even the 5-fold ministry is
  nothing!

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The church at Antioch The missional church is
born

• Multicultural, multiethnic, socially diverse
  community
• Prophets and Teachers Divine enablements to do
  ministry
• Ministered to the Lord and fasted prayer and
  worship in the community around Jesus
• The Holy Spirit spoke Saul and Barnabas sent out
  as the churchs first missionaries
• A prophetic, praying and worshipping community
  gathered around Jesus will always become a
  missional community

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Characteristics unique to campus ministry

• Time is short Students arent around long
• Processes to reach, train, and release students
  into ministry must be efficient
• Students attract students
• Students like being in homes
• Students like food

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Ministry occurs within the distinct rhythms of
the academic year

• Learn to flow with it, benefit from it, and not
  fight it
• Periods of intense activity welcome week, class
  registration, exams
• With intermittent periods of rest holiday
  breaks, semester breaks, Summer

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Salmon Run in the Spring

• Take advantage of the natural flow
• Spring-early Summer Planning
• Welcome Week Outreach
• Oct-Dec Affiliation/relationship building
• Christmas break REST!!!
• Spring Semester Leadership development
• Holidays Seasonal outreaches, mission trips

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Stages of Ministry Development

• Enjoy them all!

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Pioneering

• Discouragement is the great enemy
• Spiritual warfare is intense
• Build as many relationships as possible, wherever
  possible
• Spend much time in prayer and worship care for
  your spiritual life
• Try to respond to what the Lord is saying to you
  in your personal situation
• Care for your personal relationships marriage,
  family and children, support network

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Small Group

• Relationships are intimate, everyone knows
  everyone
• Inward focus can be a great enemy
• Begin to disciple leaders and create small group
  structure

• Develop resources in different areas eg worship,
  literature, outreach

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Medium group

• Continue to develop intimate relationships
• People can begin to feel unconnected
• Primary leaders cant care for everybody
  themselves
• Must develop an effective leadership development
  strategy
• Must grow an efficient small group structure if
  you dont delegate pastoral care to a growing
  corps of effective leaders, you cant grow beyond
  this point

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Large Group with Multiple Staff

• Need to train or recruit additional staff
• Learn to care for and support staff
• Learn to function as a team, create workable
  division of labor
• Primary leaders role changes completely
  majority of time with staff, much less directly
  with students
• Avoid the pitfall of staff doing all the ministry
  and taking initiative and ownership away from the
  students

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Multiple Staff Group with Internship

• Begin to address the many issues related to
  recruiting, training, and sending full-time
  workers
• Negotiate balances between the need to give
  interns ministry responsibility and the needs of
  the students
• Increase commitment to pioneer new ministries

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The Challenge of Changing Roles

• As groups grow, leaders roles change continually
• Only rarely are people gifted and comfortable in
  all these different roles
• The transition to multiple staff is particularly
  difficult why most groups have trouble growing
  past this point
• The inability or unwillingness to share power and
  delegate real responsibility is one of the
  greatest factors limiting growth

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What Does a Campus Ministry Year Look Like?

• Summer Planning Retreat Involving core student
  leaders in planning
• Welcome Week Meeting new students
• September Outreach, building relationships/launch
  ing small groups
• October Fall Retreat, strengthening affiliation,
  begin discipleship class
• November One major outreach (speaker)
• December Christmas play
• Christmas Break Rest!

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Campus Ministry Year (cont)

• January Spring term outreach
• February Leadership challenge
• March Spring Break missions trip spiritual
  emphasis event
• April Spring Retreat Easter outreach
  mobilizing leaders for coming Falls bible
  studies
• May Graduation saying goodbye

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What does a campus ministry week look like?

• Mon prayer and study administrative work
• Tues 1on1s with students, book tables,
  preparing for large group meeting
• Tues evening large group meeting
• Wed morning leadership team meeting
• Wed afternoon meet with local pastor
• Wed evening Prayer meeting
• Thur 1on1s, discipleship core groups, small
  group
• Fri morning prayer and study
• Fri evening gym night with pizza afterward

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Some thoughts

• Spend as much time as you can with students, not
  just in the office
• Try to limit the days where all 3 segments are
  involved in ministry
• Build adequate time into your schedule for other
  commitments rel with SFC, AGWM, support base,
  etc.

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Leadership Development

• Committed member of small group people learn to
  lead small groups by being in them
• Core group time for personal issues,
  accountability, deeper sharing, prayer
• Discipleship class biblical teaching
• Modeled on Jesus with the 12, the 3, and His
  times of instruction to larger groups