Field Education Experience Paper

Major Rick Raymer’s presentation on Men’s Ministries was beneficial and informative, as I consider Men’s Ministries in my future appointments. Major Raymer’s first comment, “Men’s club is about developing men,” however, for some officers this is not the case. For them men’s club is another program that needs to be completed for stats. They give it little attention to their men’s club because it requires more work from them, so they make it a social gathering rather than an opportunity to disciple and develop men for God.

The United Methodist Church is growing and it is happening in nontraditional areas. Between 2005 and 2013 outreach ministries connected the UMC with diverse communities and created over 130,000 new disciples in His image. Outreach ministries believe in providing sustenance to who are without basic needs and envision a day without want. On this foundation, missionaries built programs and created an opportunity for growth. Through ministry, the UMC continues to provide support and generosity to those who need help while transforming missionaries’ actions into disciples across the globe. UMC apportionments equip ministries and change the world.

14- The church has a pretty good of Men's Group, is it important for the church to have a solid Man ministry.

Friendship Missionary Baptist Church seeks to connect people who are seeking or looking for deep moral truths and values based in love, selflessness and service to others with the Life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Friendship Baptist Church, founded in 1976, by a small contingency of disgruntled members of a local church. The group separated from the offending church and elected their first leader. A demographic profile of the group is African American (five women and four men), median to poverty level income and vocational classification and little or no formal education. The demographic numbers as to population of target location show a large segment of Hispanic and Asian Americans. The desired new organization would pursue a purely religious direction in services and missional objectives within the target community. Friendship’s former leader and the style utilized in leadership was effective for a dispensation of time, but was not conducive to lasting and repeatable gains or development. The leader became the sole voice of direction, vision and mission. The leader, furthermore, was typically seen as above questioning. This led to disconnection and dissention within the organization and a departure of members as well. The following is a chart of the membership growth and decline over the life of the organization.

In The Disciple Making Church: From Dry Bones to Spiritual Vitality, author Glenn McDonald addresses what he sees as the critical element missing from the modern Christian Church: discipleship. McDonald, who owns a Master of Divinity Degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, is the senior pastor at Zionsville Presbyterian Church, which was once a traditional large suburban church, in that it focused more on the needs of the church than the needs of the parishioners. In this book, McDonald discusses how he helped transform his church from a traditional church to a church that emphasizes discipleship.

God’s people have been gathered for restoration, empowerment and sent out into mission. The small group is the gathering space to help people experience forgiveness, healing, encouragement, affirmation, trust and courage. This preparation to be sent back out into a hostile and alienated world that needs to hear, see, and touch the presence of Jesus Christ lived out through empowered individuals and groups. The introduction of each chapter will reflect the healthy small group ministry of The BCC Exercise Ministry of my

The church becomes a safe place Russell says when the good news, pouring out of the spirit, hospitality, and justice are distributed to everyone (Russell, 52). This mission is not lived out when the church does not draw attention to women. In my home church, there is often talk of being a welcoming church for all classes races genders, and sexuality, but I am used to hearing of these gifts are given to males only. While I have never agreed with is, I did not realize what kind of community can be made when focus of these gifts towards women is given. It is a jolting shock to realize that the welcoming church you thought you were part of is actually not

Instead of being a women’s worst enemy and stereotyping the “weaker” sex as manipulative, mean-spirited, and deceptive; we should work at developing a Christian community with “Dorcas style” friendships. Perhaps our legacy might be a ministry still alive in the next

Over the years, many models have been developed and implemented to endeavor to make disciples. Some of the models have been effective and others have not. Among some of the most biblical and efficient models are the ones that involve small groups. Within the small groups models, they can be broken down into further detail, such as pastoral involvement, the church’s goal, missions mindedness, etc. In this paper, I will explain my philosophy of small groups in a church and the importance of the relational group in authentic disciple making. I will also explain how missional groups can help the body of Christ move out into the community. Finally, I will summarize my status in regards to living in community with other believers and being missional with that community.

While fellowship and fun are good things, sometimes this takes precedence over opportunities to grow. The weekly study and the book studies have been steps in the right direction, but our organized events-- such as the recent prayer breakfasts-- have not always presented helpful teaching. At the most recent prayer breakfast, several of the speakers-- who were not even church members-- espoused unsound doctrine that should not be condoned from our podium. That is a direct failure of our ministry team, because we are-- under oversight on the elders-- responsible for the content of the teaching presented to our women.

So the challenge for churches is how to pull together seven to 10 leaders with a shared passion for connecting people to Jesus in the same community. Once again the relational models for starting new churches meet the need.

Women have been involved in Christian ministry since the very beginning of Christianity. It has declined and risen according to the acceptance of the environment. The two papers addressed in this essay document the rise of women ministers in the Holiness movement as well as the decline of women in the modern Pentecostal movement. In response to this decline in women in ministry, Courtney Stewart gave points which the UPCI should tackle to rectify the situation.

John MacArthur and a team of authors from the staff of the Masters College and Seminary combine their pastoral expertise and resources to publish the book, Pastoral Ministry: How to Shepherd Biblically. This book is targeted to seasoned pastors and men and women who are just beginning ministry. There are four section of the book and each section calls the pastor back to the scripture which many have left.

This course has had a great impact on my walk with Christ as well as my witness for Christ. I pastor a church and teach two classes and for me I thought that I was doing plenty. However this course has helped rekindle my passion for sharing Jesus Christ with people through personal evangelism. This paper will demonstrate what I have learned throughout this course.

In accordance with our church mission statement, the objective of this plan is to justify the need for Christian education within our church, using Scripture as the supreme authority and example, and identify strategies in which we might intentionally seek to develop a Biblical system of discipleship for our congregation throughout the entire lifespan. This discipleship plan will serve as a model to follow when determining the “who”, “what”, “when”, “where”, “how”, and “why” of teaching in our church. This plan includes the Biblical and theological foundations for education within the church, a lifespan disciple-making model, which outlines a process of