OSU Leadership Structure
OSU Leadership Structure
Petey Crowder
Here's a leadership structure for campus ministry with purpose statements and leadership roles.

Leadership Structure:

Petey Crowder, Oregon State University

 
 
1. Intention and Rules
 
2. Helo: Spiritual Formation – Rhythm
            Core Values
            Weekly meetings
                        Universitas
                        Fellowship groups
                        Accountability
            Other events/process
                        Missions
                                    Mexico
                                    Local
                                    Fundraising
                        Conferences
                        Monastic Retreats
                        Theology Classes
 
3. Matchbox: - Leadership – Initiative
            Student Leadership          
                        HD Guides
                        The E:team
            Staff
                        Director
                        Enablers (missionaries, associate staff)
            Leadership forum
 
 
Overall Intention:
 
  • The overall intention of the ministry is transformation:
    • To see students pass from death to Life, to see them transformed from a life of selfishness and sin to a life of Worship and Love in the way of Jesus. This is a never-ending process known as Discipleship. We’ll always be learning, seeking, serving, loving, and sharing our faith.
    • Our transformation will take the focus off ourselves and onto other people in all we do – especially in our everyday decisions, thoughts, actions, and conversations. We will become “intentional ministers” intentional human beings who live for the Glory of God. We’ll keep our eyes constantly peeled for God’s moving and working in the world.
    • Students will be transformed from being consumers to being lovers of God and others and life.
    • Evangelism? It’s a part of everything We do. Fellowship? As a way of life. Missions? We’re always on mission. Worship? It’s how we live and breathe and move. Leadership? If you’re not setting an example, then you’re not paying attention.
  • Think about the early church:
    • They met together multiple times each week for fellowship, to celebrate what God had been doing among them, for teaching, praise, eating together, and prayer. That’s what our weekly meetings will be centered around – transforming students to understand that their faith involves community and seeking God together.
    • We’ll be congregational – working as a part of the larger body of the church, united in mission with local bodies and the world-wide community of believers.
 
Rules for Creating Ministry:
 
  1. NCM isn’t a weekly meeting, but a movement of students in the way of Jesus to bring hope to the world-Good News, if you will.
    1. *Focus (weekly worship gathering) isn’t our focus, it’s not all we’re about. It can be an entry point or introduction, but its intent is to be a gathering time of fellowship and sending out.
 
  1. We (staff) can’t make students do anything!
    1. Being a student-led organization, students must be in charge of our planning so that we’re not making plans they can’t and won’t keep. While it can be dangerous to turn over so much leadership, it seems required if our desire is to turn students into ministers and missionaries and not consumers of a religious system.
 
  1. The best thing we can do is to live life as we’re intended – as one in love.
    1. Like Jesus (one with the Father, one with creation), we’ll be about sharing life. Our lives are no longer about ourselves.
 
  1. The worst thing we can do is to keep the blessing to ourselves.
    1. Which means we’re naturally a sending agency.
 
  1. We will live to reveal that God is concerned with every moment and aspect of our lives.
    1. Learn to see things through the eyes (lens) of Jesus
 
  1. There’s no such thing as a sideline Christian or a consumer Christian.
    1. If you’re “sitting this one out” or your faith is about you, then you’re probably revealing that you’re faith isn’t in God, but in yourself.
 
  1. NCM Isn’t a baby-sitting service for college students.
    1. It’s an expression of the church in students on campus (see rule 1)
 
  1. Our method for effective ministry is to connect students to other students (instead of just to staff).
    1. The priority is to see students working with other students, though we realize a connection with staff is natural.

Core Values:
 
  • Beauty: We desire to see the World as it was created, to dream of a world that’s good. We want to embrace worship as a way of life-because, like Jesus, we see the goodness in Creation and we see people for what God intends for them to live like. In this we are people of prayer, who embrace the presence of God in all things, all persons, and all moments of life.
 
  • Justice: If there's any underrated word found in the scriptures, it's the word Justice. Often misused in liberal theologies, we believe that justice sums up the reason Christ came. With man's ways, there is no room for justice. Justice requires humility and selflessness, and men naturally tend to take care of self first. It's only in serving the world do we put ourselves aside and learn to live the call of Jesus : to love God and love others.
 
  • Authenticity: We often talk about community in such an abstract way that we know it's desirable but don't have the means of actually providing it. It's our greatest desire to see the community of believers unite, and that begins with being genuine, real, transparent...some would say authentic. You can't be humble (and embrace justice) by being self-dependent. Our students wrestle with the theologies of being "ekklesia," (the church) a community set apart yet bound together for the call of Christ to be world-changers.
 
  • Initiative: So often our faith becomes about us, about self-help, consumerism Christianity. But it shouldn't be that way - our faith should be about liberating us to take initiative for God, living in the mold of Jesus, reconciling the earth to its Creator. We encourage students to take the necessary steps to change the world because of their faith, and do everything we can to provide the means of doing so.
 
  • Love: Love is the primary characteristic of God. It is from the attribute of true, selfless, unabased love that all other aspects of God's character flow. It connects with the message taught by Jesus and the life he commands us to live. We desire that Love is what compels us to action and guides our lives.
 
 
Leadership:
 
  • Student Leadership
    • HD (Hopes and Dreams) Guides
      • A small number of students with experience in NCM who are responsible for meeting weekly with NCM staff to dream, plan, and discuss about the upcoming weeks and terms of ministry based around three of our core values: authenticity, justice, and beauty.
    • The E:Team
      • A limitless team of NCM students who covenant to serve and support our functions and meetings in various capacities at least twice a month. Opportunities vary from setting up for *Focus to planning for retreats. The E:team will be student led and staff accountable.
 
  • Staff Leadership
    • Director:
      • Responsible for vision casting and organization for NCM. Connects with the local church, local association, and state convention. Responsible for managing the budget, mentoring leadership team students, and giving direction to interns and other staff members.
 
    • Associate staff/interns
      • Responsible for mentoring students, being involved in fellowship groups, recruiting new students, building relationships on campus and in the community, helping with all aspects of students leadership and the coordination of all weekly and annual events such as Bible studies, mission trips, church, worship, fellowships, etc.
      • Associate staff will help us spread our influence among the campus with students. They’re also responsible for weekly duties as the director assigns.
 
 
 
 
Weekly Meetings:
 
  • Weekly corporate gathering (Universitas):
    • A once a week gathering time for corporate fellowship and worship. The time will include scriptural-based teaching (usually systematically walking through a book of the Bible), share-discussion time (what’s God been doing among us?), communal praise and worship, announcements and organization, a prayer experience, and fellowship time afterwards.
 
  • Fellowship groups
    • The idea of small groups but centered around a common interest or activity. These groups are focused on producing natural interaction between NCM students and not-yet Christian friends and fellow students. It’s a part of us focusing on the spiritual in all aspects of life and taking advantage of a transformed life.
 
  • Bible study/Theology seminars
    • Led by staff and for the purpose of intellectual edification, discussion, and seeking through the scriptures and theological concepts. Selectively offered throughout the week. Can be large or small.
 
  • Accountability cells
    • Within our fellowship groups, NCM students sign covenants that include the commitment to meet once a week with 1-3 students outside of fellowship groups for spiritual accountability and discussion.
 
Last Published: December 17, 2007 4:44 PM
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