Ministry Practicum Experience Paper

I serve as a Pastoral Intern at the Evanston Vineyard Church, a non-denominational church and is located at 2495 Howard Street, Evanston, IL. This is my second year serving here in the capacity of an intern. The Vineyard is a diverse community that welcomes both religious and secular people belonging to different ethnic, racial, cultural, linguistic, economic, academic, professional and non-professional backgrounds. People from more than fifty–fivenations of the world gather together and worship here at the church. A total of twelve salaried pastors serve on staff, out of which five are male and seven female. I am one of two female pastoral interns presently in service.

CHMN 201 Introduction to Church Ministries Exam 3 – STUDY GUIDE Be familiar with the following content from Chapters 27 – 31 of: Earley & Gutierrez (2010) “Ministry Is…How to Serve Jesus with Passion and Confidence” (Nashville: Broadman & Holman). Taken from Chapter 27 – “Praying For Those You Serve” Earley & Gutierrez (2010) “Ministry

For this paper, I choose to interview Jean Proll, Elijah Purnell, Alex Synder, Zach Perry, and Cynthia Bring. Jean Proll has been working with children ministries in her church for many years. I thought that she would be a good choice because she grew up in a completely different American culture than I had, so I thought she would have some good advice on how to deal with things changing, and different types or kids. I then decided to interview Elijah Purnell, because he lives in New Zealand and I thought it would be interesting to see how they lead the ministries and work in groups. I also thought it would be a good idea because I don’t know who God will bring into my path or where he will take me, so I would have some insight into another country’s culture when it comes to leadership in groups. Alex Synder has started a lot of groups around the community to help many people and she has also helped her brothers find Christ. She also has helped out the Christian students in our high school and help them start a before school Bible Study. Zach Perry was one of my choices because he led many small groups in his church and he helps many people get back on track with God. Cynthia Bing has been a devoted Christian from a very young age. She has started a women’s ministry at her church to bring the women of the church together.

Greetings People of Living Spirit! It appears the Holy Spirit has graciously lead me into your midst for my required internship this academic year. As a student at United Theological Seminary for a second masters in Religious Leadership, I am writing to you today to tell you a little bit about myself.

As missional leader, my task is to help my congregation, synod, and church wide to understand the need for adaptive leadership if we are to be vital and thriving hubs for missional outreach in the world. Additionally, I must motivate parishioners and lay leaders to be agents of change; not to be agents of status quo. Additionally, my goal allow the Spirit to transform my congregations from an inward focus of maintenance to an outward focus of mission and to invite my congregation to be agents of adaptive leadership and transformation beyond their comfort zones of homogeneity in their current community context. In other words, my assignment is to help my congregation to understand that the task of the church is to be the church. I must show them the importance of evangelism and outreach, but our doing is important must be married with our being the church. I must help my

There are many challenges to ministry in today’s world and having a vital and relevant ministry is even harder. Churches across all denominations face drastic declines in both attendees and financial giving. With this as the background, it is imperative that vital ministries seek out opportunities to grow and engage groups and communities that have previously been overlooked, missed or not involved for other reasons including some theological reasons. With this idea and goal in mind, this essay sets out to examine and design a process by which the Churches of Cherokee, Oklahoma can successfully connect with and minster to the new Hispanic community in Cherokee. Using the pastoral cycle method, a process will be designed in this essay to

After a car accident three years ago, God used the recovery period to hone my old skills and birth new. Over the course of the process, He repositioned me for a different journey. The new path led to a transition from a secular K-12 setting to Christian higher education; yet, still within the context of supporting a diverse student population. My purpose became preparing and teaching ministerial leadership in a

Some of the opportunity and challenges pastor’s facNorth American pastors are challenge in a variety ways, one of the questions that helps a pastor to define his true intentions is figuring out some of the following ideas and awareness.

“Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” Mathew 19:14 highlights Jesus’ love of children and His desire that they be able to come to Him unhindered. Unfortunately, with many children attending public schools where there is a general intolerance of all things Christianity, it is becoming more and more important that both families and churches are able to fill this gap. Enter Christ Church at Grove Farm’s Kid’s Ministry. CCGF offers Sunday School, Sunday Morning Childcare and Awana weekly, as well as Summer Day Camp once a year. This ministry is headed up by the family ministry pastor* followed by the director*, associate director*, employee*, child care staff, and volunteers. Every summer CCGF also hires one summer intern to assist in the planning and running of their Summer Day Camp. Although CCGF has been able to accomplish a great deal considering how shortly staffed they are, there are still many problems largely in the inner-workings of leadership that need to be improved in order for the ministry to better succeed. Christ Church’s Kid’s Ministry would improve with better communication, specifically in the areas of conflict and clarity, recognizing employee’s level of competence and placing them in an area where they can best use their abilities, and by focusing more on collaborating with parents. This paper will specifically document the ways in which these changes could be made in hopes of

For this first Experience Paper I went to a Mormon Church with one of my dance teachers and her family. I had never gone to a Mormon Church before so the experience was new to me.

theology (Nouwen, 12). Meanwhile, Root asserts that “because influence in relational youth ministry runs the risk of being more about cultural conflict than the concrete presence of God, this rethinking…must be constructed theologically” (Root, 788). However, these writers have caused me to question exactly what a theological approach would look

Christian Reflections on the Leadership Challenge is an essential book for ministry leaders. This enlightening book addresses major topics that are easily applicable to strategic leadership and especially valuable to leaders within ministry. This paper addresses the book’s topics of: inspiring a shared vision, enabling others to act, and encouraging the heart, which are applied to Christian ministry.

When people sign up for the ministry; or better stated, when people are called into the ministry, they often assume that most of their time will be spent studying the bible, conversing with lost souls about the good news of Jesus and seeking God in prayer. However, successful ministers and ministries are the result of effectively executed administrative duties. According to Robert Welch and his book Church Administration, a study of pastors revealed, “about 57 percent of their ministry was tied up in strictly nonpastoral administrative duties.”1 What is more, many ministers admitted, “counseling, visitation, family time, prayer and personal devotions suffer in too many cases.”2 Is this simply a case of misguided expectations, poor leadership

EVANGELISM VISION PAPER Herb Tarlike EVAN 525 LUONLINE Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary 3/7/14 INTRODUCTION 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.

Liberty University PACO 507 Andrew Reitenauer Crabb Comparison Paper September 11, 2016 ABSTRACT In this paper, the student-writer will discuss the methods that are taught in In Effective biblical counseling: A model for helping caring Christians become capable counselors by Crabb (1977). The student-writer will also use what is taught in this book with the skills that are expressed in Creating a Healthier Church; Family Systems Theory, Leadership, and congregational life by Richardson (1996) and Blessed Connections: Relationships that sustain vital ministry, by Schwanz (2008). The student-writer will compare and contrast the skills that are mentioned in these books to establish a well maintained way in which to ministry to clients, and meet their needs as a counselor.