{"id":2877,"date":"2012-03-05T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ywupdate\/?p=2877"},"modified":"2012-02-13T10:29:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T15:29:25","slug":"boflores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ywupdate\/2012\/03\/05\/boflores\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting on Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Bo Flores serves as the Director of Student Ministries at Christian Assembly in Eagle Rock, CA.\u00a0 In this guest post, Bo explores the importance of youth pastors making a presence in their local junior and senior high schools.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s never ceases to amaze me how comfortable I become hanging in my\u00a0own arenas where I \u201cdo ministry.\u201d I\u2019m totally comfortable meeting with\u00a0a student at Starbucks or in my office. I love seeing my students when they come to one of our weekly programs. These are the places I am\u00a0comfortable. It takes very little stretching for me to operate in\u00a0these places. However, it has become more and more clear to me that\u00a0this is not where my ministry ends.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I have realized that myself and my staff need to begin making efforts\u00a0to have a presence on the local middle and high school campuses in and\u00a0around Eagle Rock, where I do ministry. I recently took my position as\u00a0the Director of Student Ministries at my church and have used the last\u00a0six months to \u201cfind my footing,\u201d which when I am honest with myself\u00a0really meant \u201cdo the things I like to do and avoid what makes me\u00a0uncomfortable.\u201d The time has come, however, for me to branch out of my\u00a0comfort zones and go to where my students do life.<\/p>\n<p>There are more than 10 high schools within 10-15 miles of my church,\u00a0with even more middle schools in the same area. Of the represented\u00a0high schools, there are more than 10,000 high school students that\u00a0attend school daily almost within walking distance of where I do ministry. The number of middle school students is even greater. How\u00a0can I say I pastor middle and high school students when there are over\u00a020,000 of them in my immediate surrounds and I do nothing to go to\u00a0them and reach them? I become convicted as I write this now.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from my own insecurities of going into the schools, (\u201cWill they\u00a0like me? What if no one talks to me? Will my clothes be out of\u00a0style?\u201d) there are obvious issues with having a presence on local\u00a0public school campuses. Public school campuses are becoming harder and\u00a0harder to get on to, at times for good reasons.<\/p>\n<p>I say all of this to ask: Do you have a presence on the campuses of\u00a0your local schools? If so, how have you built that relationship? What\u00a0have you done to get on to campuses? 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