Select and Mentor New Leaders
Senior leaders: Now is the time to start training juniors as apprentices.
• Pray for God to draw students to leadership roles that serve your chapter.
• Meet with students who have leadership potential. Encourage them to consider a leadership role.
• Have an interest meeting for potential leaders to ask questions. Describe the different roles needed.
• If you have a constitution with a leadership application, have potential leaders complete the application.
• Have the apprentices "shadow" a student leader, attend core leader meetings and give input on decisions.
Casting vision for your group
What do you want to see God do in your school of nursing this semester? Here are some ideas:
- Use a "Pocket Proxe" as a conversation starter with other nursing students, such as Scars, Resolve, Hope or Extreme Heart Makeover themes.
- Lead a GIG Bible study for your clinical group or for a group of friends who are asking questions and want to learn more about a relationship with God. GIG stands for "Groups Investigating God." Try one of the easy-to-use NCF Bible studies or one of the online GIG guides.
- Invite a speaker. Ask a nurse in your church or community to come and speak about how they integrate their faith with their nursing practice. Use this as an opportunity to invite a friend or two who are not currently involved.
Drum roll, please. We're rolling out two new Bible studies in the series, Healing Encounters with Jesus. These additional studies focus on hope, healing, and asking good assessment questions. Gather other nursing students and explore all seven Bible studies, or go to the 12 studies in the series, What's Vital? Following Jesus in Nursing.
Nurses and nursing students often want to help others and fix problems. Sometimes this can be overwelming. This blog post has seven tips that will help you be present with people who are experiencing difficult circumstances.
Urbana 15 is an InterVarsity conference for students to discern and prepare to share the gospel through their spheres of influence—whether locally or globally. Watch this video with your entire chapter and create a big vision for mission.
Join us in St. Louis, December 27-31, 2015, and take the next step on a lifelong journey that’s rich with significance and meaning. Learn more about the speakers God will use to challenge and teach us at Urbana 15. Request promotional cards and spread the word!
Registration opens March 4, 2015 so it's not too early to plan, save and raise money. Scholarships are available.
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