Evangelism - Fast fire updates

What's been your greatest success?

What has worked well?

Where are you stuck?

What's been your biggest surprise?

UMass

1. Dinner line surveys—5 people trusted X through staff EV
   
2. Surveys
   

3. Stuck—staff doing outside Ev, trying to model inside

4. Stories every week at weekly meeting, they invite friends to hear that, but don't share story with friends outside the weekly meeting

Brown

1. Mexico over Spring Break—broke many barriers

2. Great divide between spiritual and secular livesàthey don't share their faith

Failed in having busy ministry schedule-staff and students

3. Geoff: —Brodie: some students now have real r/ss with non-believing friends

4. Improve staff EV this year

Yale

1. Adam Meredith—student director at WW last summer—heart for prayer, reaching out in residential college—taking 2 guys out to do ministry EV

3. For many students the Gospel not good news—they don't know how their spiritual life affects other parts

Staff accessibility to non-Christian students in appropriate ways

2. multilevel events--Large scale events every 2 years—medium size: preEV campaign at Thanksgiving --Open Forum: invite friends and they can ask any question

4. There is a place for us to do min EV on campus to some level, can't be too high profile—surveys, dining hall

Dartmouth

1. Social/recreational opps that have generated EV conversations—hikes in fall, students coming to staff homes

2. Coverage strategies—surveys—spiritual perspectives interview that's one- on -one and interactive

Created contexts for our students that are more accessible—"100 conversations" = 100 lunches with new students, with friends—opened account at Quizno for students to use

3. Staff leading charge in EV and modeling in a way that's not weird

4. how hard it is for staff do stay focused on EV

UConn

1. Aligning core leaders to core DNA

2. —most active of staff team in EV

Worked well: surveys, have seen many come to Christ there, students have set up weekly EV time

3. Aligning AIA and Impact movements to EV

Staff EV numbers are low—but still have seen 30 come to Christ

4. UVM time—best spring break experience we've ever had, students came back fired up about EV

Southern New England/Upstate NY CAT

1. Alpha at UMass Dartmouth—integrating new believers and non-believers into ministry there

3. Lack of initiative and follow through with good ideas; busyness of staff and student leaders

2. Worked well-- campaign style EV—I'm Sorry campaign at UMass Dartmouth, idea from Blue like Jazz; Southern Conn—Jesus Loves you Day

Day of outreach at BWC

4. Katrina relief spring break trip—high level of student interest was surprise

Albany

1. A team came in—St. Louis team's visit

2. Identifying student leaders on different campuses.

Quest, RQQs

3. too early to tell

4. Those things still work

Rochester

1. 5 every student.com sites—RIT: 1000 visited in one month, and 100 indicated decisions

3. Kids haven't seen fruitàdiscouraged about sharing their faith

2. Worked well: our first intern

Spiritual multiplication teams (old Discovery, Discipleship, Action)—seeing 3^rd generations, and one group has 4^th starting

City wide CRU

Senior celebration awards night—honored them, gave gift and commissioned them, gives model to underclassmen

Devpt council and endowment cabin

Bridges is strongest ministry (100 involved)

4. Syracuse came and did Shock and Awe over spring break

Western NY

1. Student bringing up reaching freshmen next year and asking how will we replace ourselves?

2. Us vs. them attitude with students about EV

3. Facebook advertisting—a lot of EV contact

Super Christmas Awesome Time—SCAT, student idea

Student initiative to have 500 EV conversations in the spring, half way there

Lauri taking students out sharing

Soularium

New Orleans—Canisius non-Christian student came

FR,SO leadership team grabbing WBS

4. Biggest surprise—the sticking quality of Facebook even when ads aren't run

Maine

1. On line-every Maine student .com—23 decisions, fun emails--Better approach is to become friends on Facebook instead of trying to meet them face to face

2. Group and personal EV—seen 16 decisions with 600 conversations

Worked well--A few students have led others to Christ

3 sets of dining hall surveys—community needs was least effective—spiritual journey survey led to best convs and follow up

3. Stuck—staff being able to follow up new believers

Small percentage of believers share their faith—getting whole body involved in ministry

4. Biggest surprise—the whole new level of involvement in web site with Facebook ad blitz in Feb.

UNH

1. Students are cultural insidersàleads toà

2. Greatest success—one student was trusted leader at FR orientation eventàinvited to share 2 hour version of her story with 250 freshmenàongoing dialogue with many of them

3. Stuck—staff distracted with everything else there is to do—continue to come up against phobia of making a choice about the Gospel

4. Ongoing bewilderment—continue to not see conversions through ministry mode EV, and following up FSKs even though convs are great

NYC

1. Greatest success in Decisions—Bridges

Greatest success in Process—soularium—getting people involved in convs about Gospel

2. Access to campuses, going from outsiders to insiders, going from spiritual conversations to actual Gospel convs and point of decision—getting staff to do EV in field

3. Bridge building—Suzy —Lindsay—Wagner bringing non Christians to NO

4. Biggest surprise—how much EV has increased due to monthly staff EV day

Katrina trip during week of Oasis—years past zero interest that week—biggest spring break trip ever that week (Holy Week, Passover)

Boston

1. Alpha

Big Break and winter trips—b/c they learn how to share their faith, a lot of EV happens on their campuses esp week after they come back

Brian shares Gospel with all his key contacts, never assumes anyone is a Christian

2. Students who are insiders are being trained to do EV by staff who are outsiders?

The involved new believers have been involved way before their decisions

How do staff become cultural insiders in Cat? Stuck in training students in natural mode?

1. Surprises—a lot of the gathered Christians aren't really Christians
   

How much the students do want to be cultural insiders and go out, out, out instead of bringing friends to our meetings

Small Group Discussions

Why do drag racing tires not have tread? Increased surface area results in greater traction and speed

The sweet spot in Golf—good clubs but lousy swing--depends on tools and the strategy with which I employ the tools

The question of how to increase surface area is more often about strategy and not tools.

Discussion question: How can we increase surface area, for staff and students?

Slightly different question for us as leaders/builders of evangelistic enterprise: (How do we systematically and in a "take new ground" kind of way, get in contact with lots of non-Christian students?)àsimple steps that are easy to repeat over and over to maximize yield)

Surface area = time in relationship to share the Gospel with unbelieving students

Another way to look at it—Jesus was adept at communicating the Gospel/sharing about the Kingdom of God and gathering an audience to hear—our tools are great, but how do we consistently and effectively gather an audience to communicate with?

NY State

Jesus' example—he gathered an audience b/c he did things no one else could, supernatural—maybe we're good at talking about the Kingdom, but do we really model it?—take steps to do supernatural things—can I lay hands on people and pray for their healing, pray for their brokenness?—when people see the kingdom of God, and not just hear about itàsurface area—when people peer in and wipe away the frost from the window and say I've never seen that, and I want itàneed Power to generate surface area

Western NY--Student started dance ministry—her class was transformed and healed by Jesus—their prof even asked about it and was interested in Bible study

Idea for directors who have even less time for EV than other staff—as leader of campus group going to other campus leaders--Pastor in Boulder goes to community leaders and asks what the 3 greatest needs are and whether he can pray specifically for those—not weird b/c it's one campus leader going to other campus leaders

Tim: regional rep for Campus Institute for Revival and Awakening

Tammy: is the region considering training in healing prayer?

Model insider EV to students by bringing them into adult life situations—ex. kid's swim class

Help students experience the Globe/get out of America/other cultures—they see God's power there

Nailing where God's moving and joining him in that movement—Bono, 30 million AIDS orphans, children dying of lack of clean drinking water--people all over are joining in these places

Targeting demographic by demographic—not just broad, but leaders and persons of peace

Ivy League

Reimagining ministry mode EV—its value and place when effectiveness has been in other modes. But what you lose without ministry mode= training, how it builds our identity—helps with the culture of expertise where students won't try something if they know there's a chance they'll fail at it--Might do it more at Big Break or summer projects and not on campus b/c have to keep a low profile

Trying to find ways to integrate staff into students' social lives, then staff can follow up and model

Joining student groups

Increase staff visibility—having planning times and doing emails on campus instead of home

Service and finding the cracks—keep asking: how can we service the campus? All the needs seem to be met, but ineffectively done by other groups, or students are too busy or proud to admit they have real needs—what students really need is a radical break from their schedules—a several hours long dinner with real conversation at staff homes—our students don't yet invite friends to that

Time in staff schedule to do EV, not just to get quota of EV appointments but to say: go figure out how you'll do it, and shared accountability as a team—how are you investing in that? It's a regular staff discussionà how can we share in that and encourage each other?

Students don't lack contacts and context, but they don't know what to do with it—Yale: our most successful coverage strategy might be one student reaching one student, one at a time—the critical piece is what do staff do to develop them in it?

UConn—collecting staff stats, include number of spiritual conversations (not limited to Gospel presentations), to show that we value that for staff

NYC—set team goal for number of Gospel conversations—can then talk about progress as team regularly b/c whole team owns it

Bret—hearing a lot about need for modeling and training in natural mode EV and that happens best in ministry mode—idea: creating small windows of ministry mode experience throughout the year, "getting more and more reps"—small, not just Spring Break, but overnights

Brian—do students have too many contexts, so all their relationships are shallow? Need to help them set a limit?

Pat—we have to help students value a third space, have to train them in spiritual conversations and model how to turn a conversation, set a personal goal—gives me something real to talk with students about

Soularium—buy it from crupress.com—started in Spain as a way to get into real spiritual conversations, summer project used it 2 years with stock photos and added spiritual conversation questions, then did their own images

This tool can be used however it works for your context—from this morning: great way to train students in how to turn from conversation to spiritual to Gospel—intention of this tool is to get into dialogue, not to launch right into a spiritual conversation—difficult for people to lie about their lives when they're focused on images—gives them freedom that there's no wrong answer and helps them talk about their real experience

Worked well at Big Break—great for training students where you won't go back to a friend and use Quest survey or KGP booklet, but would show this to friends---helped students also see how helpful it would be to memorize a Gospel outline b/c otherwise they can't make the transition

Idea for transition is to use Rembrandt's "Return of the Prodigal Son" and share the story with them

Ask artists' community at our campuses how to use this tool, or ideas for other tools

Post results of image surveys on the website—NYC Summer Project will be using the results this summer to create their artwork, can intro it that way

Metros

Meeting felt needs ie. Pen pals, online-Facebook, Thanksgiving dinners, prayer tables, conversation groups for international students

Instead of creating our own CCC social events, get involved in the events the campus already has set up—Walk for Cancer, Relay for Life, ethnic groups like Korean Students Association, cultural shows, free movies

Food Does It—does the campus create that?

Best EV for Harvard students is having non-Christian friends share meals with Christian friends and seeing the difference in how they relate

Idea: decode the campus by looking for what's already happening that we could jump on and enhanceàincreases surface area and helps us make grateful friends

The tragic events on campus

New England State schools

Prayer on a regular basis—can't quantify the effect—how much of a prayer investment are we making? Challenge to tithe some time to pray weekly with the leaders of the other Christian groups on Campus Crusade for Christ

Are our tools inhibiting us? Are there tools that would help us increase surface area? (like John Vamp's Acts 17 tool)