5 Ways to Minister to College Students This Summer

Table for One Ministries • April 22, 2025

Many things run through the minds of college students at the end of the academic year. Exams are over, and summer is here! Families and friends ask when you’ll be back, and you begin counting the weeks and days of relaxing, maybe working, or going on exciting trips. Looking at your calendar, you see six to eight weeks of being away from school and back “home.”

However, as an emerging adult, you start to feel “home” changing. It may not be just one physical location like it once was, as you made a home while away at school. You look on social media to see friends traveling, wondering who will be there if you go to church this Sunday.

Will you have a seat in a group, or should you slide into the service a few minutes late? You have friends in the youth ministry but want to be treated like an adult. You arrive at the heart of the issue: “Is there a place for me anymore at my church back home?”

Our churches are searching for ways to connect youth as they emerge into adulthood. Here are five ways your church can balance discipling college students re-entering your church this summer. 

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