Formation focused student ministry

I want to be part of a student ministry that is formation focused, not satisfied with well done events and personalities. Proverbs 3:3 "Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart."

I want to be part of a student ministry that is utterly consumed with seeing spiritual formation happen in the lives of students. I want stop being satisfied with great turnouts, lots of students attending retreats, making people laugh, etc... I want our students when they graduate to remember that our student ministry wasn't a babysitting service or a club where they could escape the "real world" to participate in great events and hang out with cool people. Rather, I want them to remember that our student ministry was a place that was passionate about calling them to a life of denying themselves, taking up their cross and following Jesus daily. I want students carrying love and faithfulness around their necks and on their hearts in college, more than I want them to think I was cool and really knew how to run great programs.

I want a student ministry that is seeking out Paul's model for becoming more like Christ and not the latest book on the market to make me successful.

Philippians 3:7-11 "7But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. 10I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead."