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Foundation: Awareness
Exploring your ‘why?’
Why do we need you, as a local church, to engage with the college campus? Why does it make all the difference in the world, for college students to find home in the local church?
Read chapter 1 of the Church & College Students before the session to get the most out of this content
Chapter 1 is available free here or you can buy the book now.
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Discussion Questions
For you and your team…
Why, if at all, does this mission to college students matter personally to you?
Where are you, and your church, aware and ready to connect with college students?
What unexplored opportunities do you have already, to get to know your local campus population?
Prayer Space
Take some time to pray together, listen to God and seek His wisdom and vision for awareness for your church.
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms
– Ephesians 1:18-20 (NIV)
What does this look like in practice?
Explore these practitioner voices to learn from different contexts and find yourself in the story.
Aaron & Valissa
Hear from church planters reaching a large State university and a HBCU.
Kendall & Katie
Hear from college pastors in a large church and a campus ministry, reaching both a State university and a private Christian university.
Pam & Joel
Hear from senior leaders of a smaller local church next door to an elite school with a high proportion of international students.
Kris & Taylor
Hear from a senior leader and a college pastor of a large church reaching a very large State school next door.
Extra Tools
Listen to our first ever podcast episode: Why Church and College Students?”