Put ourselves out of a job

The goal in the campus ministry of CCC is not to have a big movement completely (no matter how well or poorly) run by staff. These are campus movements we are working to launch all around the world, and we want to raise up students to take ownership of what's going on and have it become more and more student-led/student-run. Staff will stick around for continued coaching/training/discipling, etc., but in a way, we want the students to put us out of a job. We want them to make it so we have less and less to do. Not so that we become lazy- but so that we can be freed up to focus mainly on coaching and training and encouraging, while students themselves can get in there and change their campuses for Christ.

Of course, this process can (and usually does) take years, or even yeaaars. But it's always really exciting when you catch a glimpse of the gradual shift towards student ownership.

Today has been that kind of day.

Every Thursday, we have what we call "Talk Story". It's just a time set aside for staff and students to go out onto campus in pairs, find people to talk to, and strike up spiritual conversation with them through spiritual interest surveys/straight-up intentional conversation/evangelism tools, etc. Well, today, Peter- a freshman who is the most consistent student at Talk Story... he's there every week!- went with Jesse- a sophomore transfer- for his first time ever to go do spiritual surveys. Then Donna- a sweet, sweet student girl who also comes consistently to Talk Story- took Hannah- a freshman girl from Virginia- on her first time!

Then I was supposed to meet Gilbert- the student leader at Kapionali Community College, where I work on Tuesdays- and he told me to meet him outside because he had run into Marion- a student at UH who came to Christ at the beginning of the semester. I met up with them, and let them finish their conversation, but it was really cool to get to listen in because it was basically Gilbert getting to speak words of encouragement from the Bible to Marion.

I love it when students feel confident and bold in the Holy Spirit and just go for it! :)