The Church At Grove Farm 's Kid 's Ministry Essay

Name of the person you spoke with on the pastoral staff: Pastor Dodridge and Steve Layton

Limited Church: Unlimited Kingdom: Uniting Church and Family in the Great Commission addresses the challenge of how churches can centralize God’s call to parents to shepherd their children found in Deuteronomy chapter six. Rob Rienow founded Visionary Family Ministries with his wife Amy in 2004. In addition he is a pastor at Gospel Fellowship Church in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. He earned an MA in theology at Wheaton College, an Mdiv from Trinity International Divinity School, and a Doctor of Ministry in Christian Leadership from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary. Rienow has authored many several books addressing family ministry including Visionary Parenting, Reclaiming the Sufficiency of Scripture, When They Turn Away: Drawing Your Adult Child Back to Christ and Five Reasons For Spiritual Apathy In Teen. In this work, Limited Church: Unlimited Kingdom, he not only argues that every

Dr. Anthony Jordan is the Executive Director-Treasurer of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma (BGCO). The BGCO is a convention of 1813 Southern Baptist churches comprising of about 614,000 members. This organization’s purpose is to help the churches that are members of the convention spiritually, financially, and structurally. They provide a number of camps and conventions for people to attend and use. They also provide assistance in handling the business and professional aspect of a church’s ministry. One of the most popular camps that the BGCO puts on is Falls Creek Youth Camp where around 50,000 students attend over an 8 week period. Dr. Anthony Jordan has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Southwest Baptist University and a Master of Divinity and a Doctor of Divinity from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (BGCO.com). He has been the Executive Director- Treasurer for the last nineteen years. Before he became the Executive Director-Treasurer, Dr. Jordan served as the lead pastor at Northwest Baptist Church in Oklahoma City from 1982-1996 (ohbc.org). The members of the BGCO have been very positive about the way Dr. Jordan leads and structures the convention. In the rest of this paper, I will inform you of how Dr. Jordan handles ethical dilemmas, how the convention is structured and the culture surrounding it, and the leadership style and qualities that Dr. Jordan uses and exemplifies as he holds the position of Executive Director-Treasurer of the

The Mt. The Peace Missionary Baptist Association of Western NC was established around the year 1890. The earliest recorded history is derived from the 44th annual session’s minutes.  The Association was held at the Gold Hill Baptist Church, Lowesville, NC on October 16-19, 1912.

Pastor Renfro, as he is known by those who have had the pleasure to meet him, defines servant leadership as “one of the many models of ministry, each of which describes how a particular minister understands his/her role and approach to ministry as a vocation, and a way of life.” Dr. John Renfro is currently senior chaplain at Conway Medical Center in Conway, South Carolina. He grew up in simple, rural South Carolina in Spartanburg County, and he benefitted from a family who had a personal deep connection with God. His simplistic beginning provides the anchor of stability in a turbulent world for his family and those whom he offers ministry. Pastor Renfro has felt that “ministry grows out of life, the life of an

A.) The mission chapel is beautiful. The beauty of this chapel can compare to the Santa Barbara one. They both are bright in color. When in the chapels I get a warm feeling. Old artwork. Kind of built like an ancient style building. Candles light up the room.

The Boston Baptist Church youth group has been one that has thrived in the past years as it reached out to the community at large and attracted youth to it’s programs. In the past year, other churches in the community have decided to reschedule their youth group meeting times to the same time as the Boston youth group. As a result, the population of the youth group has dwindled to an average of five to six youth in attendance. It is interesting to note that the most consistent attendees are ones from the community instead of the church, which is because the church does not have an abundance of youth in the congregation. While this group is very small, every third month there is an opportunity for youth groups in the area to combine and come together for a program called Hive. This program allows for the youth to meet others in the area, have a great time and to support each other in Christ. There are also special events within the Boston youth group once every month where they will go ice skating, go on a hike or something else similar. The goal of this proposal is to; present a plan where we are able to focus on the spiritual growth of the youth and to focus on how we can reach out to the youth in the community.

In 1991, John Borgal was asked to be the compassionate ministries coordinator for the Washington District Church of the Nazarene. In 1992, the district cautiously accepted John's idea of collecting donated items at the Fawn Grove Church of the Nazarene for the purpose of sending a container to Mozambique. The church donated the basement for John to use as storage. The church members gave of their time to help organize the items and load containers. John's vision had started a movement in the church and by 2001 Fawn Grove church took out a loan to build a warehouse on the church property. By that time, Nazarene Compassionate Ministries (NCM) had taken ownership of the donated items and hired John as the warehouse manager to oversee the

A sentiment common to almost any organization is that the one fact that remains constant is change. As society changes, and human understanding grows, any organization that maintains a static posture, assures its demise. Churches and Christian organizations are no exception. The gospel may remain the same, but the method for communicating it must speak to the audience to assure understanding. The Christian leader must be prepared to meet this challenge by incorporating an effective model for change into his theology of leadership in order to keep the ministry relevant and effective. Searching for such a change agent can prove to be challenging as well. To aid in this search, four

The next feature that I took from these five chapters was that I needed to work together with the parents to form a working ministry. The book helps to enhance my understanding that if I cannot manage to please the parents, I might lose the kids. Through this I discovered that one of the best ways to please the parents is to let them know what is going on in the program from the first step, and to keep them informed on a regular basis. However, I learned very early that keeping all parents pleased is not always the easiest or the best way to proceed. After about a month of working there I had a parent of two of my youth who I have never met email me and my Sr. pastor about how they were not happy about the some of the curriculum I had chosen to work with. I had chosen a curriculum that would urge the youth thinking about the Bible from their own perspective called, Amazing Bible Race, and one that asked the youth question

To view a faith-based organization from the outside in will not be beneficial to those who are looking to start a faith-based organization organization, work for a faith-based organization, or become a stakeholder for a faith-based organization. One of the effective ways to view and gain knowledge of an organization is through internal experience, i.e. interviews with staff or leaders in the organization or community, internship within the organization, tours of the organization, etc. This field research experience paper is focusing on two effective interviews of leaders in the faith-based community. Minster Duane Wallace Sr. and Pastor Thaddeus Kirkland are two positive leaders in the faith-based community who has been servicing in this community for over a decade and has worked with multiple divisions throughout it. Each leader were asked the same series of questions which are focusing on the challenges and opportunities of providing faith-based human services to the community.

There has been a considerable growth in what I now know about what it takes to be in the leadership position of Youth Pastor. There are several learnings I had from this book: one of them was the reminder of the insightfulness of youth. As Dean states, “Youth have an acute ability to sniff out hypocrisy and to name injustice.” Through her words on this and through discussion in class I have realized why it is so important to be genuine through everything you do. Youth tend to not only see but also imitate behavior they witness. This is the critical time for youth in identifying who they are and therefore what they witness can be a big part of who they become. Dean address this in the first chapter: “James W. Fowler has described the adolescent thought process in terms of the couplet, “I see you seeing me, I construct the me I think you see.” It is important to not only provide an example of who Christ calls us to be, but to allow them to see the example that they may never see at home.

After rereading through Stonehouse and The Child in the Bible I have chosen six biblical teachings/themes that I believe are important and essential for my future ministry. The six themes includes: Children are a gift from God, God sees children as blessings, children need to be taught how to develop a relationship with God, God commands us to protect the children, God cares about children enough to ensure that they receive discipline, and God asks adults to learn from them.

A person must develop a spiritual mindset when governing God’s people, because God does not change his mind about his plan or purpose. God has chosen his elect to be servants in the representation of Him. Therefore, the working of the local ministry community must be operated with structure and stability, which requires a spirit of discipline. A spirit of discipline helps a person to become the beloved person of God’s intention for his ministry. Being God’s beloved involves the matters of the heart. Henri J. M. Nouwen writes, “Solitude and silence are ways to get to the heart, because is the place where God speaks to us, where we hear the voice who calls us the beloved” which indicates God place value on his chosen ones. An Old Testament Scripture record, “Many plans are in a man’s heart. But the counsel of the Lord will stand,” indicating the thought of a person should be pleasing to God, (Prov. 19:21, NASB). In fact, it is a blessing to have such a great mind and

Succeeding topics discussed were the following: Leading Children To Prayer, Creative Story Telling, Involving Children In Ministry & Mission, The First 3 Years of a Child, Children Below Three-No TV, Trend quakes in Children’s Ministry, The Wonder Of Object Lessons, Hold On To Your Kids, Preventing Child Abuse, Being God’s Faithful Stewards, The Healthy Brain, Bully Tips for Parents, and Fantastic Crafts & T-shirt Printing. The topics were all interesting and kept all delegates busy throughout the convention period. It is believed that those who attended were “Turbo-Charged” physically by