What Should The Student Web Team Be Like? – Part 2

Below are good questions that the campus team leaders asked regarding the Student Web Team:

1. Should the student involve be a student leader (Servant Team or Spiritual Multiplier)?
2. What are the commitments of the student?
3. If student don’t have the VLM mindset, should the local team leaders or Qingwen educate the student?
4. Can we wait for the students to finish their exams first before we challenge them on this team?
5. We don’t know who we can challenge… how do we identify student who have that heart and vision for VLM?

After some thoughts, I decided to adjust the expectations of the Student Web Team and renamed it to Student Online Learning Team (SOLT). The main idea is that SOLT is make up of students who will engaged in VLM topics together online, and learn from one another about using Internet and technology for movement building. This team is also a VLM think tank which shares and collaborates ideas online for OCM.

I will provide the online platforms (through facebook or this blog) for these students to engage in discussions about VLM over a period of 6 months. They can feedback, suggest and evolve ideas on these platforms at their own pace. This means that the students can at any time interact on any VLM topics online without the fear of missing out meetings due to busy schedules or exams.

Perhaps the most tricky part is “who”. Allow me to be audacious in the selection of the student candidate… I will take anyone you offer. I don’t need the person to be a student leader. Even if this student knows nuts about VLM, being engaged on VLM discussions will help educate and cast vision to these students.

Other than the students that you are going to recommend for SOLT, I will also recruit students who attended my ministry equipping package on “God and the Wow Wild Web” from last year Metamorphosis conference. Most of those student were really clueless about VLM, but they quickly caught on the vision when they learnt how they can meaningfully use their online hours for spiritual conversations with their non-Christian friends.

SOLT will primarily be in an experimental stage through a learning mode for the next 6 months starting from April 2010. Evaluation of SOLT will be done in September with the SOLT members and the campus team leaders. In times to come, hopefully we can evolve SOLT to empower the students to lead more in integrating VLM into our movement building.

If you miss out the previous blog on the student web team, click here for “What Should The Student Web Team Be Like?“