This is one of my favorite times of the year. College football is charging hard, college basketball is right around the corner, hunting season is about to open, and we are about to celebrate two of my favorite holidays - Thanksgiving and Christmas. With all of those great things on the forefront who ...
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Big Gains – Part 2: Camp
No matter what your camp attendance is this year, any great student pastor is always trying to grow year over year. This article is going to show you a couple of ways to boost your camp attendance and produce some big gains for next year!
Boosting Volunteer Enlistment
Often one of the hardest ...
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Connecting Camp with Families
Something special takes place over the course of a week at camp when students are taken out of their normal habitat, along with the distractions, and placed into an environment that is clearly focused on Christ. I’ve often heard a week of camp described as a process of “starving the flesh and ...
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Breaking Camp
Camp is one of the most exciting events for student ministries every year! Year after year student pastors see God moving and working in the lives of their kids to save them, free them from sin, and call them into His purpose. Knowing the power of a week-long retreat like this, there must be great ...
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Good Camp to Great Camp
We are right on the heels of Summer Camp this year!! Your summer camp is one of the biggest events that you will offer to your students all year, and done right, it can be one of the most fruitful events that you offer all year. Camp is one of just a few opportunities each year that you have your ...
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Why a Camp Theme Matters
The following post was written by J. Roger Davis, President of Student Life
Would you rather eat an Outback Special or a McDonald’s Happy Meal? For me, there is no thinking twice about this one. While Happy Meals may be fun as a child, hopefully we have graduated from those and prefer to eat good ...
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Relationships at Camp
The following post was written by Jeff Pratt, Director of FUGE Camps
One of the highlights of my student ministry year has always been going to camp in the summer. It seems like God uses the camp environment to make a spiritual impact on student’s lives that rarely happens at other times during ...
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Making Your Events Matter (Part 2)
Following up with students after an event is a vital part of ministry and discipleship. In Part Two of this three-part series, I've asked Michael Kell, Student Ministry Pastor at Liberty Church in Moreno Valley, Ca., about this important topic.
-- Ben Trueblood
Ben: What advice would you give to ...
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Making Your Events Matter (Part 1)
Following up with students after an event is a vital part of ministry and discipleship. In Part One of this three-part series, Derik Idol -- Pastor of High School Ministry at 12Stone Church in Georgia -- shares five practical steps you can take to follow up properly with students.
- Ben ...
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