Percentage Doesn't Matter

Often times when talking about launching movements in ethnic contexts, people will mention how small the student population is for that ethnicity on their campus. Conventional wisdom would have us think that this would make a great difference in our ability to launch a spiritual movement. Oh how the conventional can fool us.

The reality is that any pocket (regardless of size) has the potential to make a great impact on the greater whole. The key issue is surfacing the spiritual leadership and unleashing it.

On larger campuses students in minority cultures are easily identifiable and already organized. With relatively little effort, spiritual leadership can be identified in these groups. Scott Crocker would routinely begin launching Impact movements by initiating a conversation with the first black student he could have a conversation with. More than likely, a member of the minority group will know what is taking place on that campus for the entire group. Who are the key leaders? Who are the spiritual leaders? Is there anything spiritually going on? Scott would simply introduce himself as a minister and begin decoding the campus through information gathered from this initial contact.

A small minority culture can result in much less work with more results. If God would allow us to surface a key leader, this group is easily reached very quickly . . . And at the same time can jump into launching in other categories. If there are only 50 black students a campus and there is a radical missional student among them, it will not be long before the entire population hears about Jesus – and even greater things will happen.

Kevin Lillistrand (Regional Director in the Great Lakes) has recently helped me see how the send component is forceful apologetic for our ethnic audiences. In other words, they may represent a small slice of the population, but a simple movement can produce an abundance of fruit for the kingdom and may be relatively easy to get to. Like Baylor (bastion of black hope) - there are only about 500 (or less) African American students, but Impact has a significant presents among the entire school – but Baylor is not even among the top 100 schools as far as ethnic population. If we find the right leader, this can be an easy great commission win.
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And just for kicks . . .check out our Impact Staff Alma Maters (# of staff). Most of these schools do not have a huge ethnic student population. Penn? Wheaton? Baylor? St. Cloud State?

• Baylor University (2)
• BOCES Nursing School
• Central Michigan University (2)
• Cleveland State University
• Daemen College
• Duke University
• East Carolina University
• East Tennessee State University
• East Tennessee State University
• Florida State University
• Hampton University
• Howard University
• Indiana University
• James Madison University
• Loyola University-Chicago
• North Carolina A&T University (2)
• North Carolina State University
• Northwestern University
• Princeton University
• Princeton University
• Purdue University
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Rice University (2)
• San Diego State University
• St. Cloud State University
• Syracuse University
• The College of William & Mary
• University of California-Los Angeles
• University of Georgia
• University of Maine
• University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
• University of North Carolina (3)
• University of Oregon!! (3)
• University of Pennsylvania (4)
• University of Pittsburgh
• University of South Carolina-Upstate
• University of Southern Mississippi
• University of Virginia
• Virginia Technological University
• Wayne State University
• Wheaton College