This resource is still being developed, so is in beta test mode. We'd love to hear your thoughts as you go through the sessions.
Welcome to your next steps towards college students finding hope in Jesus and home in your local church.
Have you got our Church & College Students resource yet? This little orange book is your team’s companion to this primer, grab it now to ensure you have the full experience.
How the course works
Watch the film
Each session has a short film that is useful for sparking discussion and introducing the topic.
Discuss & Reflect
Spend some time as a team reflecting on the topic in your context, praying together about what this means for your team.
Learn from Practitioners
Dig deeper with insights from local church practitioners and those already putting the topics into practice in contexts similar to your own.
At any time, young adults may become your neighbors, or start showing up to your community. Let’s prepare to help them, and your church, thrive with the next generation.
This training primer helps you begin to prepare yourself, your team, and your church culture for the vital work of making disciples of young adults, especially your neighbors on the college campus.
The six-part training is not exhaustive, but our aim is to initiate dialogue, discovery, and deeper work as a church in this area of mission. We pray that by the end of this primer, you are better prepared to both reach college students for the first time, and to disciple and mobilize those who may already be in your midst, with more confidence and fruitfulness.
Sessions
Foundation: Awareness
Why the local church, why college students and how to begin the journey
Block One: Community
Small groups big mission – creating spaces of real community and connection
Block Two: Discipleship
Students becoming more like Jesus together and building this culture
Block Three: Evangelism
Why the local church, why college students and how to begin the journey
Block Four: Leadership
Why the local church, why college students and how to begin the journey
Beyond: Sending
Joining the disciple-making movement beyond college
Sessions
Foundation: Awareness
Why the local church, why college students and how to begin the journey
Block One: Community
Small groups big mission – creating spaces of real community and connection
Block Two: Discipleship
Students becoming more like Jesus together and building this culture
Block Three: Evangelism
Why the local church, why college students and how to begin the journey
Block Four: Leadership
Why the local church, why college students and how to begin the journey
Beyond: Sending
Joining the disciple-making movement beyond college