Should Collegians Lead Your Ministry?

Our BCM staff just ended a long but invaluable week of student interviews for our BCM leadership team.

Questions across the collegiate world have been asked...

Should college students spearhead various components in your campus ministry or paid professionals? Some say collegians should not lead ministry because they are already spread so thin with other responsibilities and there is always an opportunity cost of excellence when "pro bono" responsibility is given to students.

The grim and sad reality is that students haven’t been given much leadership responsibility by the time they get to college. Consequently, giving them responsibility is a learning opportunity for them most have never had before. How do we raise a new generation of leaders without giving them leadership responsibility? We don't...

We are doing them an invaluable service by giving empowering them with leadership opportunities.

During the fall semester at ASU, we enlist a Freshmen Leadership Team: this provides an opportunity for students to hone and utilize God given gifts from the moment they step onto a college campus.


Are students stretched too far in too many different directions to be given leadership responsibility?... That could be the case, but students must determine themselves what matters most and prioritize accordingly. Time management is just as much of an issue after college than during college.

The most productive post-collegians are those that lead in college.

If we expect this generation to lead, we must empower them even at the expense of excellent quality because empowering leadership is more about the student than the ministry they are serving (students are the ministry).


Placing students on Leadership Teams helps them in a number of ways.

1. Ability think Critically & Evaluate Ministry Results
2. Innovation and Technology
3. Team Work experience
4. Organization
5. Group Trust, Accountability, and Friendship
6. Celebrate Success
7. Ownership & Sense of Accomplishment
8. Life Coaching and Mentorships
9. Sacrificial Giving and Mission
10. ETC....

Our leadership is the lifeblood of our ministry and this is why we are unapologetically student led.

More college students are graduating and not finding jobs more than ever before. May one factor be the lack of leadership experience?

1 Peter 4:10 “As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.”