Commuter Campuses
By Chuck on Jul 27, 2008 in Featured
My book is due to Zondervan this coming Friday! I have an appendix on the issue of reaching out to commuter campuses, and I’m interested in knowing what you’ve done that is affective. If you’ve worked with commuter schools and there are a couple things you’ve found to be effective throw them out and who knows, they may end up in the book. Now, I can’t pay you for it, but I can say that if you have an idea I don’t already have down I will include your name in the book. I have this appendix written out already, but again, I would love to know some of your ideas - plus others who read this blog might find them very useful as well. So to get your thought’s rolling here’s a few questions:
What have you done on campus that’s been effective?
What have you seen that hasn’t worked on commuter school campuses?
Since there is very little, if any, campus life on commuter school campuses, how can you penetrate the social networks or people?
Are there certain people in certain positions that you’ve found helpful to you?
If you’ve had a formal club on campus…has that helped? If not, why? If so, how?
Thanks for your thoughts!

Here’s one that I thought was particularly crazy - holding a sort of “chapel service” daily before the first class. You can find enough info to find out more about it in the Comment on this blog:
http://exploringcollegeministry.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/the-brainstorming-chapel-on-campus/
It sounds like they had big success with this!
Benson Hines | Jul 28, 2008 | Reply