Part IV Training Hispanics

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Part IVTraining Hispanics
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Training Hispanics

• Attaining an education is one of the greatest
  challenges Hispanics face in this country.
• Attaining higher educational levels on the part
  of Hispanics has significant implications for
  their involvement in leadership positions in
  their churches as well as their communities.

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Training Hispanics

• In this report we are going to address three
  major areas
• General Education,
• Theological Education,
• Leadership Training

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SECTION A

• GENERAL EDUCATION

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Hispanic Educational Trends

• The educational trends among Hispanics have
  significant implications for general educational
  trends in the US

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1 in 4 Public Elementary School Students is
Hispanic.
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The percentage is much higher in some states.

• State K-12
• New Mexico 58
• California 51
• Texas 48
• Arizona 43
• Nevada 40
• US Census Bureau, 2010 Census

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MAJOR GROUPS

• 1. High School Age
• 2. College Age Hispanics (18-24)
• 3. Children of Undocumented Parents
• 4. Hispanic Adults (25)

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In 2011, 76.3 of all Hispanics 18 - 24 had a
high school diploma or a GED degree
Up from 72.8 in 2010
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High School Age HispanicsDropout Rates Declined
Dramatically
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Challenges

• 1) Economic challenges drop out to help the
  family push by family pull of earning money.
• 2) Lack of English proficiency impacts
  communication school work
• 3) Adjusting to a new educational system have
  to adapt with limited English ability
• 4) Negative influence of peers they wont get
  anywhere

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Challenges

• 5) Lack of parental support very busy earning a
  living
• 6) Cultural conflict at home their parents
  dont understand the culture here in the US
  (especially if parents are recent immigrants)

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Hispanic college enrollment has increased from
20 in 2000 to 33 in 2011
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In 2011 Hispanic college enrollment rates of
high school completers surpassed all of the other
groups.
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Challenges

• 1. Many are not getting beyond Community College
• 2. Reasons
• Lack of nurture and guidance
• Financial limitations
• 3. Can Baptist Institutions be the answer?

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3. CHILDREN OF UNDOCUMENTED PARENTS

• 1. Brought here as children
• 2. Many doing very well in school
• 3. Until recently, not eligible for college

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Deferred Action

• Those Who Could Qualify
• Total in the U.S. 1.7 Million
• Hispanics 1.3 Million
• PEW Report 1.7 Million Unauthorized Immigrant
  Youths May Benefit From New Deportation Rules
  2012

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Qualifications

• Continually resided in US since 6/15/07
• Were physically present in US on 6/15/12
• Enrolled in high school, have a high school
  diploma or a GED or have been honorably
  discharged by the military
• Not convicted of a felony
• Enroll in school by application date
• What can Baptist churches, institutions do to
  enable them?

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4. HISPANICS ADULTS

• 1. The group with the greatest needs
• 2. An essential group for all educational
  programs pipeline

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CHALLENGES

• 1. Academic limitations
• 2. Financial limitations
• 3. Linguistic limitations
• 4. Immigration status
• 5. Absence of ramps

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Hispanics Adults Without A High School Diploma
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Hispanic Education25 Years Older
Less Then 9th Grade 9th to 12th Grade H. S. Graduate Some College College Graduate
All Hispanics 21.9 15.0 26.9 22.8 13.4
Native Born 7.8 12.5 29.6 32.6 17.4
Foreign Born 33.0 16.9 24.8 15.1 10.2
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Financial Limitations
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Poverty Rate
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Spanish Language Needed Initially
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Recommendations for Parents

• Get more training themselves
• Special classes, ESL, GED,
• Cooperate with the schools (teachers)
• Help their children with homework
• Find those who can help their children
• Sacrifice as an investment in their children
• Above all Catch a vision

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Recommendations for Churches

• Start with the children
• At their dedication Bible, Offering -
  Scholarship
• Encourage their young people
• Provide tutors
• Recognize graduates
• Invest financially partner with colleges
• Have ministers of youth
• Declare a no dropout zone

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OPTIONS

• Partnering with churches (Hispanic, others) to
  pay half of the tuition matched by College
  tuition
• Partnering with Baptist Businessmen
• Churches teaching GED classes.
• GED is now offered on-line with mentors

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Recommendations for Baptist Institutions

• Becoming better informed of trends
• Learning from what others are doing
• Being intentional about establishing ramps
• Exploring partnerships
• Learning more about financial resources

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Recommendations for SBC Agencies

• 1. Write articles
• 2. Address this topic in literature (e.g., Sunday
  School Lessons)
• 3 Hold Conferences
• 4. Include this topic in brochures (e.g., IMB,
  NAMB including this in qualifications for
  appointment)
• 5. Other?

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Recommendation to the Executive Committee

• As a result of the Hispanic Consultative Groups
  surveys which included educators from a variety
  of educational institutions the following
  recommendation was made that the President of the
  Executive Committee sponsor an Hispanic Education
  Summit for SBC related colleges, universities,
  and seminaries in the U.S.

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• Note Dr. Frank Page has already responded to the
  recommendation that a Committee be named to
  address the educational (ministerial training)
  needs of Hispanics and other Cultural Groups in
  the SBC. The first meeting was held in Nashville
  April 2, 2013. Other meetings including a Summit
  will take place in the future.

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SECTION B

• THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION

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Theological Education

• Southern Baptist Theological Education can be
  placed under three broad categories
• 1) Graduate Theological Education,
• 2) Undergraduate Theological Education,
• 3) Entry Level Theological Education.

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SBC SEMINARIESHISPANIC ENROLLMENT
Area SWBTS GGBTS MWBTS SEBTS NOBTS SBTS Total
Enrolled 127 290 44 81 141 78 761
Diploma 2 13 10 43 3 71
B A 34 4 9 113 13 173
Masters 83 25 8 29 38 55 238
Doctoral 8 6 22 8 44
Spanish- Speaking Profs 5 4 2 1 9 21
CLD 246 246
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Degree Plans

• While many of the Hispanic students are bilingual
  and fit naturally in the English language degree
  plans, it is encouraging to know that some
  seminaries are offering courses in the Spanish
  Language.
• Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has a
  Master of Divinity degree totally in Spanish.

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Degree Plans

• Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has a
  Master of Arts in Missiology in which the
  Hispanic Studies Concentration can be done
  totally in Spanish.
• In August of 2013, Southwestern Baptist
  Theological Seminary began to offer a Master in
  Theological Studies totally in Spanish and
  totally online.

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Degree Plans

• Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has a
  Doctor in Ministry Degree totally in Spanish.
• It is encouraging to see the progress that is
  being made in terms of recruiting Hispanic
  students for the graduate programs of our SBC
  seminaries.

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Undergraduate Theological Education

• Several SBC Seminaries have baccalaureate degree
  plans that are ministering to Hispanics.
• Southern, Southeastern, Southwestern
• There are currently 173 Hispanic students
  enrolled in these programs.

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Entry Level Theological Education

• At the entry level, there are 71 Hispanic
  students enrolled in our SBC seminaries and 246
  enrolled in CLD (Contextualized Leadership
  Development) programs.
• It is most helpful when the seminaries offering
  these two study programs are able to provide a
  ramp for students to meet the qualifications to
  enroll in accredited undergraduate degree
  programs.

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HAC Survey

• Schools that offer entry level courses that
  provide a ramp for students to continue their
  studies into a BA and then Masters level courses.
• Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary
• The University of the Americas - Texas
• Equip Biblical Institute of Shadow Mountain
  College - California

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Entry Level Theological Education

• A number of Hispanics are getting enrolled in
  Training Centers sponsored by churches and
  Associations. Some of these take Seminary
  Extension Courses.
• In the past a number of Baptist colleges and
  seminaries granted credit for these courses in
  light of the fact that Seminary Extension was
  accredited through Adult Education.

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Entry Level Theological Education

• Two pressing issues emerged regarding Seminary
  Extension 1) The fact that the courses offered
  in Spanish are no longer accredited 2) The fact
  that Seminary Extension is requiring Social
  Security Numbers as a pre-requisite for students
  to enroll in its courses. This is automatically
  eliminating a significant number of undocumented
  persons who are currently involved in ministry
  and need training.

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Entry Level Theological Education

• The top three needs for Hispanic theological
  education are
• Flexible schedule (online, regional, indigenous)
• Accreditation (accepting credits between schools
  both in the US and abroad)
• The use of Spanish language.

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Undergraduate Theological Education

• The top three resources needed to facilitate
  theological education most often mentioned were
• Better use of technology as a delivery
  methodology for theological education.
• Spanish instructors preferably with a Master or
  Doctorate degree
• Material in Spanish written by Hispanics

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Undergraduate Theological Education

• The top three challenges to theological education
  most respondents mentioned
• The undocumented status of some Hispanics.
• Most Hispanic pastors are bi-vocational and thus
  time is very important.
• Funding theological education also becomes a
  burden and sometimes a dream killer.

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Recommendations

• 1. The Hispanic Advisory Council recommends that
  SBC seminaries redouble their efforts to recruit
  and train Hispanics for ministry

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Recommendations

• 2. The Hispanic Advisory Council recommends that
  ways be found to coordinate the work of the
  institutions and centers providing entry level
  training so that the necessary ramps are
  established to enable students to meet the
  qualifications for accredited undergraduate and
  graduate degree plans.

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Recommendations

• 3. The Hispanic Advisory Council recommends that
  SBC institutions continue to explore appropriate
  ways to minister to undocumented immigrants.

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Leadership Training

• Section C

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Leadership Training by LifeWay

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•   LifeWay continues to play a strategic role in
  the training of Hispanic Leadership.
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LifeWay

• Training Resources 
• Small Group Bible Study
• Desafío ED Extremo (Extreme Sunday School
  Challenge)
• Escuela Dominical Misionera (Missionary Sunday
  School) training efforts are helping local lay
  leaders and pastors in this area.

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LifeWay

• New Resources
• La Biblia del Pescador (Holman largest Bible
  release)
• Soy Cristiano, Ahora qué?,
• Matrimonio Fuera de Peligro
• Radical Bible Studies in 2013

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LifeWay

• Discipulado Transformador (Transforming
  Discipleship) webpage to further help churches
  develop intentional plans to disciple and develop
  multiplying believers.
• In 2013 LifeWay initiated The Joshua Project to
  equip local church leaders in key regions with
  strategies to reach more children and families.

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LifeWay

• The Catalog Soluciones Bíblicas Para Las Iglesias
  (Biblical Solutions for the Churches) contains
  excellent training materials in Spanish that are
  continuously being updated.

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LifeWayTraining Events

• Avance Hispano Conference at SBC in Houston,
  (LifeWay, IMB, NAMB GuideStone). Drs. Fred
  Luter, Kevin Ezell and Tom Elliff spoke.
•  SBC Avance Hispano planned for Baltimore,
  Maryland June 2014

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LifeWayTraining Events

• Training Page upcoming Training Webinars
• Teaching to Transform Youth - Oct. 26, 2013
• Training to Transform Adults - Jan. 25, 2014
• Online training through webinars.
• Over 4,000 leaders have already benefited from
  this training initiative in addition to more than
  120 on-site training events held in FY13.

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LifeWay Training Events

• The Partners Summit (Dec 3-5, 2013) Equipping
  Partners to be motivated to produce 1) Better
  Leadership, 2)Better Partnerships, 3) Better
  Results
• (churches realize better ministry results
• associations and state conventions realize
  better Cooperative Program giving
• LifeWay realizes increased revenue from
  solutions).

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LifeWayLeadership Training Survey

• Needs and Challenges
• Leaders Concerns
• Needs of Hispanic Congregations
• Most Pressing Needs of Spanish Resources

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Recommendations

• 1. Develop a strategy to intentionally educate
  Hispanic churches about SBC vision, programs and
  Great Commission emphasis.
• 2. Create and implement a communication plan to
  connect and involve Hispanic leaders within SBC
  at regional, state and national level.
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Recommendations

• 3. Form a leadership network to connect,
  communicate and encourage participation in SBC
  causes among all state conventions.
• 4. Develop an initiative to communicate, interact
  and foster the outreach to the growing Hispanic
  population in our country at all levels.

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Leadership TrainingState Conventions

• A. State Hispanic Baptist Fellowships
•  In a number of states the Hispanic Baptist
  Fellowships that function under the leadership of
  the Baptist State Conventions conduct training
  events for the Hispanic pastors and church
  members.
• As an example of this, we are including the
  activities carried out by the Hispanic Baptist
  Fellowship (Alianza Bautista Hispana) of
  California in the 2013 Calendar year

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State Hispanic Baptist Fellowship - California

• 700 in Annual Hispanic Baptist Congress
• 850 in Meetings for Hispanic Baptist Men
• 1,300 in Koinonia workshops for Hispanic Women
• 400 in Koinonia workshops for Hispanic Children

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State Hispanic Baptist Fellowship - California

• 210 in Training for Hispanic VBS
• 300 in Hispanic Youth Camp
• 280 in Hispanic Young Adult Camp
• Have participated in E.R.C. related to
  evangelistic campaigns
• Trained 60 Hispanic pastors on utilizing
  California Convention tools

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State Hispanic Baptist Fellowship - California

• Leaders of the Hispanic Fellowship have conducted
  discipleship workshops with 25 pastors and 8
  laymen.
• The Hispanic television program Llegó La Hora
  is reaching more than 10,000 a day according to
  the statistics of Telemundo
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Florida Baptist Convention

• Trained 4,104 language pastors and lay leaders.
• Equipped over 220 pastors and their spouses in
  church starting strategies.
• Trained 50 language pastors through the Church
  Planting Training and Support Process.
• Held a mission congress with an attendance of 326
  people.
• Conducted individual consultations with over 210
  pastors.

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Florida Baptist Convention

• Conducted numerous meetings with language pastors
  and lay leaders to strengthen the language work
  in Florida, over 250 persons participated.
• Assisted in organizing the annual meeting of the
  Hispanic State Fellowship at which over 460
  people attended.

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Conclusion

• Great Strides Are Being Made
• General Education
• Theological Education
• Leadership Training
• Great Challenges Remain
• The new Ethnic Education Task Force is addressing
  these challenges