“What followed was an explosion of creative ministry ideas…”

Following City/Script, my student leaders were excited to be begin visioning for the upcoming school year and explore creative ministries ideas.

During the last weekend of June, we debriefed the year and began to prayerfully make plans for the upcoming year. We studied the building of the tabernacle passage of Exodus 35, and asked God to show us how and where to use the gifts He had given us.

What followed was an explosion of creative ministry ideas, as we discovered using our passions as a way to engage in ministry.

• Jenna: running ministry, to offer a place to worship God while honouring and taking care of the bodies He has blessed us with!
• Elizabeth: movie ministry, to offer a place to use popular culture as a way to engage non-Christian friends in spiritual discussions!
• Bethany: Worship, to lead and serve the community in a ministry that has needed new vision and life for the past years!
• Lauren: Cooking Classes, to serve as places where her friends from her program could meet her friends from her faith community and discuss spiritual things while cooking!

God convicted us of the places where He wanted us to be more invitational to the people He was calling on campus. So we set forth to study a gospel to get people in Scripture and interacting and discovering the fullness of Jesus; and what His life and ministry mean and model for us. We chose to spend time this fall studying the Gospel of John in a manuscript study on Thursday evenings.

We also realized that as we engage in a lot of new forms of ministry, that we really needed to set aside time to pray with God, and see what He is inviting us into on campus.

As we took account for the ways our fellowship had not pursued students in the past, we began to brainstorm ways to reach new students. One of the ideas we had for orientation week and the first week of school was to provide a map for students of the campus and the surrounding areas, noting the places to eat, make copies and buy supplies and find entertainment. We would also point out on the map where our fellowship gathers and offer the map to students free of charge.

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