Root A: Supportive Area

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SPROUT

  • Communal ownership of the campus via listening prayer times/prayer walks

  • Connection to the campus via communal network mapping, churches, etc

SAPLING

  • Area team meeting at the new campus w/point person (esp in case of faculty, student, or volunteer)

  • Ministry hours from other campuses deployed for ministry on CC or on projects

    • ​Students from other campuses help proxe, prayer walk, surveys, spiritual conversations - especially have seen this happen at pre-NSO training for established campuses; AD models joining in on this

    • Area staff helping with training on new campus or with new campuses’ students

  • ​ Area/regional structures (conferences, trainings, etc) are welcoming and inclusive of community colleges and center community colleges at times

    • ​Inclusion up-front (testimonies, worship team, CC staff and students have some up-front leadership)

    • May need to adjust content for diversity of students

      • ​Contextualizing lordship calls for CC students by nuancing how we talk about academics - not just don’t idolize academics, but also be faithful to academics!

      • Family and community relationships - many living at home

    • ​Adjusting start/end times and shorter distance to travel to help accommodate work, family, or church responsibilities

    • Expect to scholarship a significant percentage of conference fees for CC students; transportation and finding cars

    • Fun activities adjustments

      • ​One West Coast area had to create an alternative to the traditional Fall Con costume/dance party b/c many CC students were from more conservative church backgrounds

FRUIT

Area structures and long-term resource plan that integrates the needs of both CC and 4-year chapters - even centering CC ministry at times​

  • Personnel: always having a backup point person b/c of higher turnover of student leaders; CC faculty/staff are key and raising up volunteers

  • Finances: funding for CC staff and scholarships for conferences (local churches, area scholarship money)

    • ​Sample budget presented to a church

      • ​West Valley College Key Facts:

        • ​11,000 students from Saratoga, CA and surrounding areas

        • Very little on-campus Christian ministry (if any)

        • Connected to Mission College (10,200 students) as part of West Valley- Mission Community College Districts (Mission also has little campus ministry)

      • ​Staff support, training, and expenses    $25,000/yr

      • Student Leader Development (Conferences) $3,000/yr

      • On-Campus Evangelism  $2,000/yr

      • Already Raised  $12,000/yr

      • Remaining Need $14,000/yr

  • ​​Training: Some of the typical conference/camp structures may not work for CC student leader development because students may only be available to lead for a semester. So agile, on-the-job type trainings will need to be implemented.

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