Good Partnership

At a recent staff conference, I was reminded of how it’s impossible to do this work without good partnership. Good partnership is something we seek as Campus Ministers with the Spirit, our students, colleagues on different campuses, and of course our supporters. This fall has been full of many transitions (more on that later). Sometimes it’s easy for me to think this fall has brought a significant loss of good partnership, as I graduated some significant student leaders and partners in the ministry this past Spring and as I went back to serving as a solo staff when my staff partner moved onto a new ministry this summer. But as I’ve been reflecting on this year, I’m reminded of the ways I’ve been blessed by the increased partnership of my supporters.

This year, I’ve been especially blessed with moments of partnering with my supporters in new collaborative ways. I’ve been able to use homes for hosting students. I’ve had supporters donate meals for our community dinners. And also I’ve been able to creatively collaborate with some supporters, one example that comes to mind is the Cooking Group’s collaboration with Ainsley Boyd Photography. It was great to have Ainsley do a food photoshoot of two of our cooking events and get to experience one of our thriving ministries.

I hope there will be more opportunities for my supporters to partner and collaborate in new ways in 2015!