If you know your campus, you can figure out what will help accomplish your purposes during Finals week. Maybe some of this will fit, or maybe it’ll help you brainstorm for your own campus tribe!

1. 1.   A Finals study day (with food), like Blackhawk Church in Madison does.
2. 2.   A perpetual game marathon. As students need to leave, new students step in. Remember your color or your
   
3.       team, and we’ll announce the winning team at the end of the week. (I’ve always wanted to do this!)
4. 3.   Serving your campus’s students: anything from food to free Scantrons to free tutoring to free massages…
5. 4.   A few-hour Study Break (with food & games & other fun)
6. 5.   Prayer – for, with, about
7. 6.   Holding an on-campus or off-campus respite spot all week long, open ’round the clock
8. 7.   15-minute Worship breaks within the day, held on-campus…
9. 8.   …or even mid-day “chapel services” held on campus
10. 9.   Simply cancel some or all of your regular activities, if that helps students most
11. 10. Prepare an awesome devotional guide or other “plan” to give students as they leave or send students two
    
12.       weeks into summer
13. 11. Quick road trip – to study (in a cool location) or not to study
14. 12. Print a handout on the spiritual aspects of finishing strong, studying hard, etc.
15. 13. Give students something to serve their fellow classmates with (candy? extra Scantrons?)
16. 14. Hang out with other college ministers (while the mice are away, the cats will play?)
17. 15. Cheer academic excellence in obvious ways
18. 16. Midnight stress relievers (B-Movies? Campus golf?)
19. 17. Camping on campus
20. 18. Collect mailing addresses of the students who are headed home
21. 19. Spend the week getting to know some of the faculty, administration, and staff
22. 20. Spend some time serving some of the faculty, administration, and staff
23. 21. Remind students to (and how to) stay healthy
24. 22. Brainstorm how you’re going to impact local college students during the summer (even if you’re a campus-
25.       based college ministry!)
26. 23. Prepare for the most amazing Senior send-off ever
27. 24. Organize a team of all your students who don’t have Finals (or whose Finals end early in the week) – either
    
28.       to have fun together OR to serve
29. 25. Prepare to host parents, families, and others well when they come for graduation
30. 26. Love on specific groups on campus in some of the above ways
31. 27. Moving-out help
32. 28. Tour high schoolers around campus
33. 29. Bring to campus: Local pastors, parents, youth pastors, and others who need to care more about the
    
34.       campus tribes. Offer a “vision experience” where they look to these busy-hurried-anxious-energetic mission
35.       fields, notice they’re white unto harvest, and help the labor to increase.