Coming up with helpful new ideas for the new school year…

As the new school year is rapidly approaching, college ministries around the country are preparing for some new ideas that they are planning to implement.  It may be useful to have a couple of measuring gauges in place to help evaluate the best ideas within your ministry.  Benson Hines wrote an article, found here, which provides a list of five aids for ministers to use when evaluating these new ideas.  The list is as follows:

1.                 Get students to take a look at our materials and/or plans, with complete freedom to offer suggestions, “edits,” and ideas.

2.                 Ask another college minister for the same kind of input.

3.                 Ask advice from different types of people.

4.                 Sleep on it.

5.                 Observe your materials (or plans) from various real-life viewpoints.

These suggestions are quite practical and should help you refine your ministry this school year into excellence.  As always, you should also saturate your ideas with prayer so that God may direct you towards the best idea for your ministry.  May God do some amazing things in the state of Texas this school year!!!