This quote by William Shakespeare sums up the path I’ve taken throughout my 60 years on this earth. I have been different people on various paths throughout my lifetime. The problem had been no long-term stability, which means there hasn’t been any consistency, I kept going through change, after change, after change. The crises: It isn’t as bad as it sounds, as the opportunity to experience many different scenarios builds character, increased my wisdom and awareness, and allowed me to experience various situations through the eyes of the lost. I can relate the years of not walking in the Spirit to the Israelites walking for 40 years in the wilderness. In my teenage years, I was involved in a gang and doing drugs. What had led up to this was …show more content…
The Spirit hasn’t revealed the entire picture yet, but I know pursuing a Master of Arts in Ministry Studies, with an emphasis on Youth/Family is the correct path. In the future, I will be participating in the ministry full-time by either pastoring a church or working with adolescents in an Urban Youth Ministry. I have been chosen to serve as a Christian warrior carrying out God’s will in the trenches. My focus is to work with the “outcasts”, the ones who are very lost that most have given up on. I am committed to serving God, family, Christian brothers and sisters, and the …show more content…
My vision is to assist youth in becoming Christlike disciples who love and obey God and mentor and empower others. The philosophy I wish to develop for Youth Ministry is a holistic approach. There is a need for youths to know that God loves them and that only through a personal relationship with him, they can experience the full extent of His love. I will engage both the Ministry Model (discipleship training programs) of taking the church to the youth and the Urban Fellowship Model (evangelistic driven, comparable to Young Life Ministries) of taking the youth to the church. They can work together “hand in hand”, utilizing the best of both models can be effective. My long-term mission is to develop each disciple for church planting. I will leverage the leadership that’s developed in our youth ministry to launch new
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I spent every spring and summer in middle school doing mission work and community service. I loved the opportunity that it gave me to build relationships and share my beliefs with people I didn’t know. Little did I know that this would pave the way for a life-changing experience that I would encounter one day. Each spring my church would host a missionary event called “The Ignite Project.” I felt an urge to join the group, recognizing that it was a calling to profess my faith in Jesus. These mission trips helped me to go out
From a young age, I was deeply involved in the community of faith and that swiftly led me into leadership in the church. My sense of rootedness in the church and my success in children and student ministry leadership, led me to Seattle Pacific University to pursue training in theology and educational ministry, and from there to my first call in vocational ministry as a student pastor at Kent Covenant Church where I served for e...
In addition to confirming the theological core of servant leadership, the project will seek to build unity and a culture of teamwork which will enhance discipleship, commitment to serving and an overall healthy environment where the heart of Christ is manifested for the world to see God incarnate through the church. Healthy leaders are important for this project because healthy leaders will foster teamwork, unity and greater fellowship. As a result, of teamwork and unity healthy leaders will establish a culture which will aid in developing future servant leaders.
After covering the entirety of Lee Vukich and Steve Vandegriff’s book, Timeless Youth Ministry, I arrived to the conclusion that there are timeless principles within the student culture today and that youth workers can successfully minister these students by recognizing these principles. Vukich and Vandegriff provided a window to the life of adolescents. Anyone who reads this book is likely to become familiar with the student culture and what may occur in the future concerning the student ministry. Furthermore, he or she may understand how churches have approached students and how a youth worker should conduct him or herself. In 22 chapters, Vukich and Vandegriff presented an insightful picture of adolescents and their culture,
The key words that stood out for me when interviewing with my supervising pastor was (and is) experimentation and creativity. As a church that is reframing itself, what a wonderful proactive way to look at your rebuild. At this time of history as we redefine church wihin the UMC denomination, how else can we possibly frame it? We have to be creative! We have to address the
My desire to be a role model to the youth in my church and spread God's word have provided for different leadership roles. I have been a greeter, and an acolyte, as well as a vacation bible school leader. Being the primary nursery attendant has been another role that has allowed me to inspire and support youth. I read the scripture readings in front of the church, and was t...
Fellowship Bible Church. Missions: Evangelizing, Making Disciples, Planting Churches. Tulsa: Fellowship Bible Church, 2013. Print.
Philosophy of Ministry: God's desires come first, I must always live my ministry God's way. I must live as a Christian (1 Corinthians 9:27) I must have a proper relationship of surrender to the Leader. In my personal life or in the Church I must understand that Christ is Head and Chief Shepherd (Ephesians 1:22, Hebrews 13:20). The “management” of Church is about relationships with God and Man, not just maintaining a social organization.
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I want to say what Philosophy of Ministry means to me, this is my first time attending college, as like so many others this ministry thing hit you at a young age and you began to go through life wanting to know more about Adam and Eve, Noah and Jesus, everyone else in the Bible really don’t count to you or not that important to you as a child, as a child, growing up without a father my mother had to work so we had less time with her too. Now, my mother was working a lot back then so me and my brothers and sisters had to either stay with our grandmother or stay home in the house. At “Granny’s” nothing but church on TV or Radio, so that was I knew I wanted to be a Minister. The way that I am preparing for Ministry is I went back to school to
Young, D. S. (1999). Servant Leadership for Church Renewal: Sheperds By the Living Springs. Scottdale: Herald Press.
...tial ideas and theologies that are absolutely the cornerstone to having a healthy ministry. Ideas like community, grace, love, and forgiveness could all have their own paper written for them individually, but acceptance is absolutely essential to any ministry. To accept someone into your family, just like the father in the story of the prodigal son, is to share all of these values listed above. By accepting them we are showing them grace, love, forgiveness and belonging, that each and everyone one of them so desperately desires. If we as youth pastors can embrace acceptance and also use it genuinely and not as a technique for recruiting, then surely our ministry will grow both in numbers and in depth in the knowledge of the word of God. By doing exactly what God does for us, we can show His love, His grace and His mercy by simply accepting others into our family.
In ministry it is important to note that the different people involved in your ministry will be at different stages of their spiritual growth. Having an awareness of your own personal theology will be important for how you go about teaching the students who are involved in your youth ministry. One part of personal theology is spiritual formation. Duffy Robbins states that spiritual formation is, “the growing into the likeness of Jesus” (448). Another main part of personal theology is community. Understanding and having an idea of both spiritual formation and community helps with the formation of personal theology of ministry. This paper will share five areas of theology and how they relate to practical theology in youth ministry. The five areas of theology include view of God, view of people, view of sin, view of redemption, and view of scripture.