I’m a big component of continual assessment, but I believe it’s very important to meet once a semester with students to get feedback on the health and vitality of ministry. This morning, I invited around 20 students to our semester evaluation meeting and we talked specifically about 3 key factors.
1. Where are we?
2. How are we doing?
3. Where do we need to go from here?
We primarily talked about the main components of the BCM ministry. Here are some of the important questions.
1. What do college students look for in a speaker/preacher/communicator?
2. Do college students prefer exegetical or topical approach to bible study?
3. How can our ministry more effectively align with our mission statement?
4. What creative elements should we emphasize more?
5. How can we focus more on relational evangelism?
6. How can we better connect students to church?
7. How can BCM help remedy college student church shopping?
8. Is BCM too staff driven or too student driven?
9. What’s the one thing we did this year that we shouldn’t have done?
10. What the one thing we did we should do again?
11. What are some key relationships and partnerships on and off campus that we need to be invested in?
12. How should we reconsider promoting our ministry?
We discussed these questions and more for around 2 hours. 3 General takeaways that I learned from students today:
1. Today’s collegians want/need to learn about biblical man and womanhood
2. Students enjoy hearing testimonies especially video testimonies.
3. Students prefer a dialogical speaker who makes scripture applicable to collegians.
Hey Chad! I'm very interested in one of your findings. "Today’s collegians want/need to learn about biblical man and womanhood." What do you think that means? What does it look like for us to teach that? How are you going to be sure to focus on that?
ReplyDeleteI would have loved to have been there, wished I would have known about it! :)
ReplyDeleteJosh, you always provide great insight. Justin, I was simply referring to what students were saying. The group actually brought up the Manhood/womanhood issue. I tried to pry a little further. Students discussed their generation needed to learn how to "grow up" and take responsibility for their lives. The wanted to learn about the value of commitment and the biblical roles of adulthood. Other than that, I can't speak on behalf of the students.
ReplyDeleteAt any rate, It seems the psychologists are right in saying that adolescence is being postponed to the 30's
sorry about not answering all your questions. secondly, we have to do more than teach biblical manhood/womanhood, we have to connect students to adopted families in our local churches who show this by example. I will teach a two week series called "Grow Up" in the Spring and use some Acts 29 resources tailoring them to collegians. One other way I've focused on this issue is admonishment. I am quick to bring students in my office and calling them out on some issues in order to grow them spiritually, etc... I'm interested on your thoughts as well.
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