Nor Cal / Nev College Ministries

So you’ve got a handful of college students coming to your church. What’s the next step? Call them individually and ask them to go watch a movie with you and then hang out for coffee afterwards. Don’t call it a college ministry function—call it hanging out. Repeat once a week or so with variety (have a pizza party, go paintballing, etc).

After you’ve got a comfort zone established, start saying things like, “Hey, since we’re all here, let’s take a few minutes and pray for our campus.” “Hey, now that there are six of us wouldn’t it be cool if we did a little Bible study on thriving spiritually at college?”

Just see what happens.

Don’t formalize anything until you have a critical mass. If you launch something with much hype and fanfare and only 5 students show you’re in for a disappointing experience. If, on the other hand, you just start hanging out with people no one has any expectations. You can formalize something once you reach a comfortable size.