Time with New Campus Staff - part duo

After the one hour pilgrimage through Acts of the Holy Spirit, we looked at Luke 10 and highlighted a few expansion principles that Jesus laid out (10;2b – LEADERS!). I then very very briefly brought up the concept of APEPT, or the Five-Fold Leadership Matrix from Ephesians 4. Rather than diving into the nuances of Apostle, Prophet etc., I simply gave 5 categories for how spiritual leaders function. Here is how I laid it out:

• Teacher – Are we right, accurate, true to what God has said?
• Pastor – Are people ok? Are people healthy?
• Evangelist – Are we engaged with the lost culture around us?
• Prophet – Are we doing what God has told us to do? Are we in tune with where God wants us to go?
• Apostle – Are we taking turf? Are we growing in to untouched places?
  

I had all the new campus staff (about 100 people) identify themselves in one of these categories. I was quick to point out that this was in no way intended to be some kind of gift test, I just wanted them to get into groups with a mix of people. About 10 people identified themselves as Apostle, Prophet or Evangelist. The other 90 fit into the Pastor and Teacher arena.
So we formed another 10 groups and worked this scenario: You compose a team in a city of 250,000+. Here is breakdown of the turf you are trusting God for:

• WatchaMattaU - Major State University of 40k students (4% African-American, 3% Asian-American, 1% Latino, Random assortment of International students – at least 1,000 in many little groups)
  
• Small Liberal Arts School
• HBC (Historically Black College)
• 4 Community Colleges (all in same system)
• 6 High Schools
• Cru (the Campus Crusade group) is about 100 students – 30 of which are spiritual multipliers (defined as – they take & make opportunities to share Christ)
  

We then asked, “What do you do?”
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After about 10 minutes of discussion I changed the question. I asked, ”After 3 years, your wildest dreams have been realized. There is 10% of the entire student population involved in Jesus activity? How did you do it?” (thanks Eric Swanson and Christian Washington insight into planning with the desired future in mind).
Here are their results (realize that the note taker was flying to get it all down, and that part of this is just standard fare, part is really not that great, and then part is emergent and amazing).
[After the exercise, I asked everyone if they thought they could implement their plan? To a group they all said YES! Let the young people run!]
The breaks represent different teams -

• pray and fast – seek God’s instruction
• Train students
• What are our student’s passions? - send them there
• Strategic Planning Process with students
  

• Seek after freshmen
• Leaders in fraternities/sororities
• Leaders of campus go to surrounding colleges
• Targeting RA’s in dorms
• Raise up leaders within movement to be RA’s
• Cast vision for spiritual multipliers
• Commitment to prayer
  

• Bringing in leaders
• Giving them the vision
• Giving them training
• Sending them out
• Send them where they are passionate about
  

• Target freshmen
• Intentional with discipleship of spiritual multipliers
• Find leaders
• Bible studies in freshman dorms
• Find who is ready to be sent
  

• Have 30 spiritual multipliers go with other 70
• Divide up multipliers to other parts of campus
  

• Target dorms
• Leaders on campus – athletes, Greeks
• Find leaders who are ready to go out
• Continue to cast vision
  

• Break up group into 5 categories – APEPT
• Break Cru into 15 groups
• Send people to share the gospel with the leaders of different groups everywhere
• Send in backup when something happens – teachers, pastors
• Keep moving through every group
  

• Send staff to talk to HS seniors throughout the city
• Spiritual multipliers to join Greek houses
• Starting conversational groups for international students
  

• Focus on most influential people
• Modeling well – sharing your faith
• Focus on Christ
  

• Students need to know that the Lord can do this
• Time of vision
• Target them toward specific areas of campus
• All out assault – outreach explosion
• Ministry teams target areas
  

• Partnering some of the 70 with the spiritual multipliers
• Send the students to work with seniors