Ministry to Students in the Church

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Ministry to Students in the Church

• CE 511
• Present Practices of Student Ministry

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Scriptural Mandate

• Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is
  one! You shall love the LORD your God with all
  your heart and with all your soul and with all
  your might. These words, which I am commanding
  you today, shall be on your heart. You shall
  teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk
  of them when you sit in your house and when you
  walk by the way and when you lie down and when
  you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on
  your hand and they shall be as frontals on your
  forehead. You shall write them on the doorposts
  of your house and on your gates. (Deut. 64-9
  NASB)

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What Are Some Of The Current Practices Of Student
Ministry?

• Mid-Week Youth Group
• After-School Bible Clubs
• Discipleship Groups
• Para-Church meetings
• Catechism
• Sunday School classes

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What Are Some Of The Current Practices Of Student
Ministry?

• Worship Teams
• Mime Teams
• Dance Teams
• Athletic events
• Large events

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What Are Some Of The Current Practices Of Student
Ministry?

• Concerts
• Camps
• Retreats

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What Are Some Of The Current Practices Of Student
Ministry?

• What are some of the things you have seen
  utilized in Student ministry?

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Even though we dont have to be doing the same
things in order to reach our students, it is
important for all of us to be headed in the same
direction
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Discussion Time

• What are some of the avenues of Student Ministry
  that you have been involved in?
• In what capacity?
• What was the effectiveness of this program and
  of your involvement?

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Types of Church Programming for Student Ministry

• Program-Based
• Purpose-Driven
• Relational-Based
• Seeker Sensitive
• Ministry-Based 
• Emerging Church

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Program-Based

• If the usual response to new ideas in a church
  is, 'We've never done it that way before,'
  chances are you have a program based church.
• Program Based Church advertising slogans
• We are a full service church.
• A church for the whole family.

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Program-Based

• Glenkirk Church in Glendora, CA
• Richwoods Christian Church in Peoria, IL
• The Chapel at Cedar Park in Cedar Park, CA

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Purpose-Driven

• A paradigm, not a set of methods.
• Advocating crowd-to-core growth
• Culturally relevant worship style
• Independent of buildings

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Purpose-Driven

• Saddleback Church

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Relational-Based

• the Relational Based Church is built principally
  around relationships.
• House Church Movement
• Cell Group Churches
• Koinonia Groups

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Relational-Based

• House Church Movement
• The House Church Network
• House Church Central
• The House Church Movement

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Relational-Based

• Cell Group Churches
• West Gate Chapel in Chantilly, VA
• Bethany World Outreach Center in Baker, LA
• Living Christ Fellowship in Scottsdale, AZ

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Relational-Based

• Koinonia Groups
• Grace Christian Center in Killeen, TX
• Evergreen Baptist Church in San Gabriel Valley,
  CA
• Christ the Servant Lutheran Church in
  Gaithersburg, MD

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Seeker Sensitive

• The seeker church understands that while seekers
  see the church as 1) lacking credibility, 2)
  boring, and 3) irrelevant, they have a favorable
  disposition toward Christ.

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Seeker Sensitive

• Perhaps the best-known of this model is the
  Willow Creek Church in South Barrington, a suburb
  of Chicago, IL

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Ministry-Based 

• Ministry Evangelism Based church planting is the
  planting of a healthy church through meeting
  real, felt, and anticipatory needs.

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Ministry-Based 

• Notice how each of the previously mentioned
  churches approaches ministry needs.

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Emerging Church(or Emergent Church)

• An answer to the Post-Modern Movement
• Perhaps best noted through Solomons Porch in
  Minneapolis, MN

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Assignment

• Read
• Starting right Thinking theologically about
  youth ministry. - Chapters 14-17
• Be prepared to discuss
• A Theological Basis for Student Ministry
• Bring notes from your experiences