A thought about college students from CBFNC Collegiate Engagement Coordinator, Dr. Wanda Kidd:

As your college students come home for the holidays, please take some time to speak to them personally about their lives. They are not the same young person you celebrated at their graduation and sent off to college. 

• They have had life experiences they have probably not processed with anyone, and particularly not with a person that would listen and offer grace.
  
  
• They are at the crossroads of choices that everyone wants to weigh in on. Sometimes they just need a sounding board and a listening ear.
  
  
• If they show up at church at all, they usually don’t know where they fit in and experience awkwardness and a sense of displacement.
  
  
• Many of our students went away thinking they knew exactly who they were and what they wanted, and were disappointed to find they were one of many bright and talented young adults and it has shaken their self-esteem.
  
  
• And heaven knows they need someone to help them process the global events of the past few months

So Please:
Take the time to seek them out.
Include them in your welcome
Have an informal ”get together”
Ask them to participate in worship
Tell them that they were missed and that they have a place in Christ’s family and in their church specifically.
 
And Finally: Be looking for that student who might make a good intern for your church this summer.  Now is the time for both of you to be thinking about that possibility.
 
Investment and engagement in the life of a young adult is never a waste of your time and energy.
 
- from Wanda Kidd, CBFNC Collegiate Engagement Coordinator

College Resources
Every church is a college church - whether you have students who have gone to college or if you have students within driving range of your church. CBFNC wants to provide events you can invite your college students to.

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Links

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CBSF Internship Mentoring Program
Collegiate Summer Missions application
CBFNC Partners
Student.Go
Student.Church
Theological Education
NC Baptist Schools
Collegiate Congregational Internships
Passport Camps

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Resources

Invitation to Call
Reading List
CBFNC Resource Library

​Can't find what you're looking for? 
Contact Wanda Kidd

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Articles

The Laity of the Future is Here Now
What You Offer
Today and Tomorrow
Bless Support Encourage
Bright Possibilities
Art of Hospitality to College Students
Covenantal Living and Young Adults
Identity: CBFNC and Young Adults
Collegiate Ministry 411
Hospitality
Networking and Mentoring College Students
Mentoring College Students in Your Congregation
Students: How to Get Involved in a Church
A Mentoring Church Offers Students a Variety of Opportunities to Serve
How to Have a Conversation and Communication with College Students
The Art of Giving (introduction and response) 
Membership vs Belonging