Whether you're a church leader or a lay minister, this book will help you understand the need for a college-age ministry, offer understanding into this age group, and teach you techniques to effectively meet students' needs. You will learn how to help students engage and remain connected to the body of Christ during and after their college years.
Out from Under: equipping kids for life out of the shelter of youth group This book dives into our youth ministries, helping youth workers think intentionally about developing a ministry that is geared toward helping prepare kids for what’s to come. This begins by helping them intentionally think through what it is kids will be facing and then helping them think through preparation for those times. This book dives into ministry philosophies that help or hinder this preparation.
Campus Ministry is an earnest advocacy for recognizing and strengthening campus ministry as essential to the church's mission. Donald Shockley presents a theology of campus mission based on the growing need for the church to reach beyond itself and to renew its mission in the college community, which offers a unique opportunity and setting for the church to practice evangelism, ministry, and Christian education.
CAMPUS MINISTRY Introduction This book tells you the needs for a good college ministry. It tells you how to get started and the organization to make it effective. This book will inspire you to be creative in ministering to college students, whether they are single, international, or married, faculty, and administration Staff. Pastors and religious leaders who work with college students will use this book as their manual. It gives them the Biblical reasons and methods for reaching and ministering to the needs, desires, and bonding friendships of college students and staff. This book was inspired by God. As I was having my daily devotions God laid the thought on my heart for me to write a book about my 45 years of experiences in student campus work. As I started writing the Holy Spirit would lead me to the topics and content that should be included. It has been a real joy of the Lord, as we worked together on this book. This book tells you about God's mission field, and how God is bringing the mission field to our colleges and universities for us to witness to the future Leaders of the world. This program will meet the basic needs that student's have, of life, salvation, vocation, mate, Christian fellowship, and purpose in life. These ideas outlined in this book are part of a program that is supported by thousands of churches. For this is the church reaching out to the campus during the week.
This book dives into our youth ministries, helping youth workers think intentionally about developing a ministry that is geared toward helping prepare kids for what's to come.
A resource for young adults at both private and public colleges and universities to encourage them to become coworkers in Christ as they minister with and among their peers.
This resource, written with the intention to support a new Lay Servant Ministries course, will give readers a general understanding of the developmental needs of the 18- to 26-year-old demographic in the United States; general categories of institutions of higher learning; basic structures for campus ministries and offices of spiritual and religious life on college or university campuses; a framework to discern how United Methodist congregations may be called to serve students in their local context; and tools to begin bridging the administrative structures at the institution of higher learning in question to gain appropriate access to students. The approach of this text is fundamentally student-centered and contextual, placing the needs of students as the foundation of congregational discernment and institutional bridging to build and/or support a student ministry. (The scope of this text is limited to higher education in the United States, as models of higher education differ greatly in other regions of the world. This text also primarily targets the 18- to 26-year-old demographic, recognizing that many students in the United States may fall outside this age range.)