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Take your next steps for college students to find 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.

Your church needs the next generation, and the next generation needs your church. Are you ready to meet the need and join the mission to college students today?

 

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.

Start Session 1

Block One: Community

Creating spaces of connection and belonging.

Start Session 2

Block Two: Discipleship

Students becoming more like Jesus, together. 

Start Session 3

Block Three: Evangelism

Activating a culture of sharing the good news.

Start Session 4

Block Four: Leadership

Raising and releasing student leaders.

Start Session 5

Beyond: Sending

Joining the disciple-making movement beyond college.

Start Session 6

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