Backwoods Presbyterian
Puritanboard Amanuensis
We have a residential junior college in town here in Ellisville that has approximately 4,000 students. This will be the third school year (starting this week) since I moved to town. In the past two years I have just kind of "made myself available" on campus, i.e.- sitting in high-use areas reading and putting a little sign next to me inviting folks to stop and talk/pray as needed. I have had some success in reaching souls for Christ (none that resulted in any direct effect on our congregation) and comforting the afflicted.
However this year I have been convicted that I need to do more than this and actually verbally engage the students/faculty/workers with the gospel. The quasi-liberal/moderate United Methodist church in town has a Full-Time "campus minister" and the Baptist churches in town support a "student union" that has all the bells and whistles including a cafe, a gym, etc. However both of these groups really only minister to the "reached" on campus and there is no point in me/our church trying to "compete" with these kind of activities.
I have identified a couple good places and times where there are a lot of students moving at the same time and that are visible from all four directions. I am interested in doing some street preaching/active outreach from these points and was curious if the PB would point me to some resources that would help make this an effective use of my time and energy. The elders at church are fully on board with this when/if I go and do it.
Blessings and Thanks.
However this year I have been convicted that I need to do more than this and actually verbally engage the students/faculty/workers with the gospel. The quasi-liberal/moderate United Methodist church in town has a Full-Time "campus minister" and the Baptist churches in town support a "student union" that has all the bells and whistles including a cafe, a gym, etc. However both of these groups really only minister to the "reached" on campus and there is no point in me/our church trying to "compete" with these kind of activities.
I have identified a couple good places and times where there are a lot of students moving at the same time and that are visible from all four directions. I am interested in doing some street preaching/active outreach from these points and was curious if the PB would point me to some resources that would help make this an effective use of my time and energy. The elders at church are fully on board with this when/if I go and do it.
Blessings and Thanks.