Meanwhile...

Although I've been kind of preoccupied with creativity and innovation, I thought I'd share about another preoccupation I've had since my arrival here at KCU.

The campus ministry in Murray spent a lot of time developing an intentional community, a culture comprised of an integration of healing, learning, welcoming, preparing, and sending. That is, we wanted our campus house community to be an ethnos on campus known for accepting those who entered, helping them discover who God wanted them to be and develop ways to grow in that relationship, teaching them what they needed to know to do that, and sending them out onto campus and (eventually) into the wider church (and world) to reproduce the process.

Here at KCU it is kind of assumed that this process occurs, especially with students in the same ministry program. I'm not so sure. I think we've missed some opportunities here, and I think we're going to see if we can be more on-purpose about it.

The concept that's been preoccupying my mind about all this is legacy. I'm meeting with a large percentage of the students in my emphasis on Monday, and we're going to talk about these very things. We're going to ask a few questions, such as:

• what would it look like if seniors were intentionally mentoring underclassmen (underclasspeople?) in our emphasis?
• how do we make sure we're living out some key community verses?
• are we a community? Do we need to be?
• what if we committed to some key goals for all those in our emphasis?
  

These aren't all, but they're some of the ones brewing in the back of my head. You'll see some more about this on this blog, if you're interested.