Time with New Campus Ministry Staff #1

I spent part of early last week hanging out at New Staff Training in Daytona Beach. I was up their earlier in January to talk about Movements Everywhere. This road trip (in the mighty T100) was to decipher the “how” of the new staff job in light of [EVANGELISTIC!!!] [GROWING!!!] Movements Everywhere. Here is what we did . . . .and some of the results. There were about 100 staff in the room.

We started the time by getting in groups by regions (with two international groups). I started by talking about numerical growth in the early church. How did the church go from 25,000 people in AD100 to 20 MILLION by AD310!?! (I made them guess these numbers). I then stated, “the principles for this kind of growth are laid out in the book of Acts – in your groups you have 20 minutes to come up with all the principles you can muster from your vast, in-depth, communal knowledge of the book of Acts”

Here is the list (I've eliminated the duplicates – and this is in no particular order, but I did highlight some I liked)
· Preached boldly
· Prayed boldly/daily
· Went
· Praised God
· Filled with the Spirit
· One accord (they liked each other)
· Healings
· Shared
· Went outside the box / comfort zone
· Persecuted yet persevering
· Ice Cream Socials
· Took big risks
· Fasted
· They didn’t get comfortable – were on the move
· Unified
· Believed that Christ was going to return soon
· Went for influential people
· Went to influential cities
· Raised up Leaders
· Trusted the Lord for places
· Provided for one another
· Adapting the gospel message
· Focused strategy
· Delegated tasks
· Empowered and trusted younger leaders
· Used people who were committed to the vision
· Took every opportunity to speak on what the Lord has heard
· Spiritual multiplication
· Kingdom of God was their focus
· Endured persecution
· Body evangelism
· Commitment to sound theology
· Vision

We then asked , “What do you see up there that we DO in Campus Crusade . . . .and what DON’T we do?” (remember, these are new staff . . . .fresh from being students in the ministry).

There are some that contradict, but hey, this is not a science, right?

DO / GOOD / CONTINUE

• Continue to share the gospel boldly
• We have a great focused vision
• Leadership development
• We allow students to lead – before they feel they are ready
  

DON’T DO / PROBLEMS / CHANGE

• Too many restrictions for student leadership
• Not taking enough risks
• Afraid to fail
• Staff don’t share their faith enough
• Going deeper in relationship with key leaders
• Too satisfied with just one movement
• We don’t believe what we are sharing
• We do not make encouragement a way of life
• We need to do more relational based evangelism
• We try to disciple too many people (not the right people??)
  

After this . . . .a little APEPT and a case study (next post).