Last year I had the chance to meet a guy named Benson Hines. He took a year to travel to nearly 200 college campuses to see what God was up to, and one of his stops was Stanford University. We met and talked shop for a while and have stayed in touch via Facebook since then.
Benson has just written a free book called Reaching The Campus Tribes
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about his observations. His central thesis: college ministry is a whole lot more like foreign missions than it is like youth ministry
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It’s going to be fully available next Monday at http://reachingthecampustribes.com/
. For now, there’s a prerelease version you can download (pdf link, 4.2 MB).
Benson also has a blog: Exploring College Ministry. Check it out.
I don’t see how anyone could read pages 90–93 in the ebook about the challenges facing incoming college students and not be convinced of their need to become a college minister.
No kidding, Marc. For that matter, I never understand why college ministry isn’t the default option for new ministers testing out their call.