Nor Cal / Nev College Ministries

If you’re the pastor at a large church in an area with several colleges, you probably need to follow a metro model of ministry. What that means is that you can’t focus on just one campus (unless your church is across the street from it).

Your best advice is to start big. Assemble a talented worship team, get a very charismatic up-front person, and launch with style. Print hundreds of invitation tickets, do direct-mail flyers, do a poster campaign on campus. The whole deal.

Build a crowd, and out of the crowd recruit a core. Pour into them and develop leaders. Expand your ministry like crazy.

Your greatest challenge will be to avoid becoming a mile wide and an inch deep. Deliberately launch programs to help students go deeper. Discipleship small groups, apologetics training seminars, service-oriented projects, leadership training events, etc.