Nurturing the Soul of the Campus Minister

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Anne Jackson serves on staff at Cross Point Church in Nashville, Tennessee. Her articles have been published in a variety of print and online magazines, and her blog, FlowerDust.net, is ranked as one of the top blogs in Christian Leadership with hundreds of thousands of page views a month. She is an advocate for Compassion [...]

Soul Health: You Can’t be Fruitful if You Neglect the Source

Generally we in campus ministry do some level of evaluation of our program, either in a report for the Board, or for our own identifying a sense of the direction that God is calling us to go. But do we ever take the time to evaluate the health of our own soul. This [...]

A Campus Minister’s Reflection: Students who deal with same-sex attraction

Many of you know about the Chinese character that stands for both crisis and opportunity.  Such fork-in-the-road moments reveal God’s providence to teach and guide.  They’re also darn difficult.
We have been going through such a “moment” the past few months at Southwestern College.  It started last Spring semester and carries into the [...]

Getting the Board Out Of The Box

By Julie Robertson
Compartmentalization. It is a problem for all Christians, but especially those engaged in full-time ministry. We have a tendency to view our lives in categories. Family. Devotions. Work. Play. All have become things we mark “done” on our real or imagined “to do” [...]

The Spiritual Formation of a Wesley Board

By D. Merricks
One often overlooked part of being a Wesley Director is relating to the men and women who make up the local Board of Directors. There are many different opinions about what a Board’s role should be: Is it primarily a fundraising body? Does it help decide about ministry programs? Does [...]

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