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Have an idea for a ministry that may also result in recruiting good volunteers...just need an outside opinion.
I live in a rural community that just happens to be the home of a regional university. I find it hard to recruit volunteers but the one I have found is a college student who majored in social work who wanted to explore the calling, unfortunatly she graduates this year. I have this idea to offer a workshop like an introduction to youth ministry maybe an, "Are you being called?" type of program. There is no religion degree offered at the school but we have a lot of christian student organizations. A student may discover they are being called and at the same time it would help me get to know more college students and give me a potential few to invite to help with my ministry while I help them. Thoughts, Questions, Concerns about this idea.
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Find people that have a passion for youth ministry not just people that think they need to involve some where in the church. |
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Here's a question I have for you: Our church does have a campus ministry and I wish I could be involved with it and I tried to partner with it but the lady who runs it turned down the idea and wasn't very pleasant toward me. I talked to our head pastor about it and he let me know that her husband was the youth director who served prior to me and the church terminated him and unfortunatly their anger about the situation is directed at me. |
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Sounds like a great idea! In my experience, college ministry is tough because there are so many student organizations that many college students don't see a need for going to church outside of the campus groups. Something like this could be a great way for you to come alongside some of those campus groups and provide a service to students that will hopefully motivate them to get involved in the local church too. Plus it sounds like a great way for you to build relationships with students and potentially recruit some volunteers. My only suggestion would be to think it through REALLY well and come up with a good curriculum about calling so that they'll be getting a lot out of it & won't see it as you simply trying to recruit them. I do coordinate with the other youth directors in town (6 of us all together) so maybe this is something they would like to together so we can reach out to all the campus ministries. I agree, I want it to be a solid curriculum, haven't found one yet so I may have to develop it. |
