Collegiate Collective

Today we are meeting with the director of the BSM at the University of Texas Arlington to talk about engaging commuter students on campus.

Gary Stidham // Director of the BSM at the University of Arlington TX

Notable Points:

• Commuter students have different characteristics:
  1. Metro setting
  2. More Churches hard to gather a lot of college students.
  3. Christians have a high commitment to the local church and still attend home church.
  4. A lot of diversity in their context – need to mentor students build life skills. They are usually the first generation in their families to go to college.
  5. A lot of transfer students are commuter students
  6. They work other jobs along with school
• Discipleship is key and putting students into ministry opportunities on campus.
  • The mission is spiritual multiplication
  • Develop the heart
• The need for leadership pipelines has to be a big part of the ministry but the turnaround rate has to be faster.
• The key to getting commuter students:
  • Get the word out, make sure people know you are there!
    • Mission trip to campus the first 10 days
  • Evangelism
    • Invite leaders and new students to start sharing their faith
• Three things: Evangelism, Discipleship, Missions
  • Have an inviting culture and a go and tell culture
  • We need to emphasize lostness.

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