The transition from high school ministries to college and young adult ministries can be jarring for students. As student pastors and leaders, it’s important to ask how your ministry can lay the foundation for students to grow into mature, healthy college and young adult disciples. 

The transition from high school ministries to college and young adult ministries can be jarring for students. As student pastors and leaders, it’s important to ask how your ministry can lay the foundation for students to grow into mature, healthy college and young adult disciples. 

Austin Gentry is the Young Adults Pastor at Second Baptist Church of Houston, Texas. He’s originally from North Carolina, a graduate of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and is the author of 10 Things Every Christian Should Know For College.

Listen to a breakout session recording from the 2023 Disciple-Making Conference where Gentry shares strategies to prepare your students — and their parents — well.

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Podcast Highlights:

  • “The university environment, I think more than anything, is the place where your faith is situated like a pressure cooker. For better or for worse. You have kids go to college and they seemingly lose their faith all together, or they go to college and they meet Jesus for the first time, and it’s a trajectory for the rest of their life.” (2:52)
  • “These students, they are looking for, as they come into college, they’re looking for a sense of identity. They’re looking for a sense of purpose. They’re looking for a sense of fulfillment.” (8:58)
  • “We want to build the church of tomorrow, today.” (24:38)

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by N.C. Baptist Communications