Pros
- Potential for impact upon the world is amazing. Loving and serving influential, smart, and confident students who are meeting Christ and loving others on their campus and then across the globe? Total plus. - paycheck. - most of the staff - faculty staff, event planning staff, etc.... are UNBELIEVABLY AMAZING. But you should understand that all of them are excellent hires and co-workers who stay because they believe in the students and the mission....not because they trust the senior staff or the methods.
Cons
- The CEO is living in his own world. Everyone on campuses agrees, but no one will voice it because he’s where so much of the money comes from(for now, at least). He created this ministry 17 years ago and refuses to listen to anyone who suggests it may need organizational tweaks (keep in mind- 17 years ago college students had just gotten cell phones, maybe.) ———and they are reasonable tweaks. There shouldn’t be any organizational manual-type material which encourages staff focus specifically on recruiting white men at Ivy League schools, that that bible course leaders should “remove slackers” from their bible studies because they didn’t do the homework. - numbers. Lots of numbers. Reporting numbers of who came to what and how many showed up. - be careful of any ministry who claims to rest heavily upon the Bible, but doesn’t actually live it. They bring keynote speakers to their staff and student conferences who rarely use the Bible or refer to it at all. - if you have parents who divorced, a great uncle who was a Freemason, own a dream catcher, or practice yoga? You aren’t doomed for hell because you share dna with someone. You can still be a Christian, and you don’t have to repent of something someone else ever did. The Holy Spirit INTERRUPTS our lives, our family lines, and our hearts to change everything. “Generational sins” don’t exist when God becomes your Father and Christ becomes your brother. This continually addressed issue will not only bother you as a staff member, but it will deeply bother you when it’s spoken to your students. - if you work on a campus, you have a boss, and then the next person above them lives far away. The senior staff don’t get to know you. All they know about you is what your boss tells them. And apparently your old bosses opinion matters none. - your job is to pour into and invest in the lives of students, and at any point your boss can screw you over, telling you you no longer have a job....and they aren’t required to provide a reason for why.