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The content for this new college union website will be reviewed and prepared by an editorial board of individuals interested in campus ministry. It includes campus ministers, bishops, college and seminary leaders and others. Meet the Editorial Board!

The content of the College Union site is divided into the following sections:

Additional Resources

NEWS AND TRENDS

Culture

  • A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey. Brian McClaren.
  • Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality. Donald Miller.
  • Church in Emerging Culture. Leonard Sweet, Andy Crouch, Brian McLaren, Erwin McManus, Michael Horton, Frederica Matthews-Green (Editor).
  • Emerging Hope: A Strategy for Reaching the Postmodern Generations. Jimmy Long.
  • Ministering Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Personal Relationships. Sherwood G. Lingenfelter and Marvin K. Mayers.
  • Relevant Magazine
    • Online and Hard copy magazine covering God, life, and progressive culture.
  • Beloit College’s Mindset List for the Class of 2009
    • Each August Beloit College releases the Beloit College Mindset List, which offers a world view of today’s entering college students. It is the creation of Beloit’s Keefer Professor of the Humanities Tom McBride and Director of Public Affairs Ron Nief.
  • The Higher Education Research Institute (HERI), UCLA
    • The Higher Education Research Institute is based in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. The Institute serves as an interdisciplinary center for research, evaluation, information, policy studies, and research training in postsecondary education. The Cooperative Institute Research Program (CIRP) is the nation’s oldest and largest empirical study of higher education, involving data on some 1,800 institutions and over 11 million students. It is regarded as the most comprehensive source of information on college students. The CIRP 2005 Freshmen Survey is the 40th freshmen survey conducted by this national research program.
  • Spirituality in Higher Education: A National Study of College Students’ Search for Meaning and Purpose
    • A multi-institutional and longitudinal study to identify trends, patterns, and principles of spirituality and religiousness among college students.
  • State of the Campus Survey
    • Every two years, the Ivy Jungle Network conducts a survey of campus pastors in the network. The survey, taken by volunteers, gives a snapshot of what is happening on campuses around the country.

 

SMALL GROUPS

Community and Bible studies

 

MISSIONS

Missions: Trips and Training

  • The Essential Guide to the Short Term Mission Trip. David C. Forward
  • Friend Raising: Building a Missionary Support Team that Lasts. Betty Barnett.
  • The Great Omission. Steve Saint
  • Run with Vision. Bob Sjogren and Bill & Amy Stearns
  • Short Term Missions Academy—a 2 day workshop put on by the Mission Society (www.msum.com Adam Hoyt is the direct contact.)

 

WORSHIP

  • Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World. Robert Webber.
  • By Water and the Spirit: Marking Connections for Identity and Ministry. Gayle Felton.
  • Heart of the Artist. Rory Noland.
  • Inside Out Worship: Insights for Passionate and Purposeful Worship. Matt Redman.
  • This Holy Mystery: A United Methodist Understanding of Holy Communion. Gayle Felton.
  • Passion Resources

Media

 

VIRTUES AND CHOICES

Developmental Issues

  • Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens to Early Twenties. Jeffrey Jansen Arnett.

Love, Sex, and Dating

  • Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity. Lauren F. Winner.

 

STAFF DEVELOPMENT

Board Development and Fundraising

  • Asking: A 59-Minute Guide to Everything Board Members, Volunteers, and Staff Must Know to Secure the Gift. Jarold Panas.
  • Board Room Verities. Jerold Panas.
  • Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Principles and Practices. Peter Drucker.
  • Nailing Down a Board: Serving Effectively on the Not-For-Profit Board. Charles Caldwell Ryrie.
  • Nonprofit Boards: Roles, Responsibilities, and Performance. Diane Duca.

 

STAFF DEVELOPMENT AND STUDENT LEADERSHIP

Leadership Development (Staffing, Internships, Students)

  • The Ascent of a Leader: How Ordinary Relationships Develop Extraordinary Character and Influence. Bill Thrall, Ken McElrath, Bruce McNicol.
  • Games Teams Play: Dynamic Activities for Tapping Work Team Potential. Leslie Bendaly.
  • Habitudes: Images That Form Leadership Habits and Attitudes. Tim Elmore.
  • In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership. Henri Nouwen.
  • LeadershipNext: Changing Leaders in a Changing Culture. Eddie Gibbs
  • The Leadership Challenge. James Kouzes and Barry Posner.
  • Now, Discover Your Strengths. Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton.
  • Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity. Eugene Peterson.
  • Growing Leaders, Inc. Tim Elmore.

Mentoring

  • Mentoring Millennials: Shaping the Next Generation. Dr. Daniel Egeler

 

SPIRITUAL FORMATION

  • The Celebration of Discipline. Richard Foster.
  • The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God. Dallas Willard.
  • Invitation to a Journey: A Road Map for Spiritual Formation. M. Robert Mulholland.
  • Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home. Richard Foster

Wesleyan Studies

  • A Perfect Love: Understanding John Wesley’s A Plain Account of Christian Perfection. Edited by Steven W. Manskar, Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, and Diana L. Hynson.
  • Recapturing the Wesley’s Vision. Paul Wesley Chilcote.

 

EVANGELISM

  • The 250 – Ideas for Evangelism for Your Campus. WSN Press.
  • Becoming a Contagious Christian. Bill Hybels.
  • The Celtic Way of Evangelism: How Christianity Can Reach the West…Again. George Hunter.
  • Conspiracy of Kindness: A Refreshing Approach to Sharing the Love of Jesus with Others. Steve Sjogren.
  • The Master Plan of Evangelism. Robert Coleman.
  • Out of the Saltshaker and Into the World: Evangelism as a Way of Life. Rebecca Manley Pippert.
  • The Alpha Course for Students

 

OTHER

Organizations and Ministries Relevant to College Ministry

  • Emerging Church
  • Habitat for Humanity
  • International Justice Mission
  • Intervarsity Ministry Exchange
    • A participatory website, accessible to anyone, for easily sharing ministry resources. It is designed to lower the barriers that can make it challenging to publish, find, and acquire resources you need to grow spiritually in Christ and to lead effective Christian ministries.
  • Ivy Jungle Network
    • A loose association of men and women who minister to collegians, existing to serve, resource, encourage, inspire, and connect those doing college ministry. Network includes over 60 denominations and organizations.

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