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How Faith Works, Skip Maccarty

Lake Union Herald

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A Report On The 180 Symposium, Roger Dudley, Allen Walshe

Faculty Publications

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Three Reasons To Serve, Gary L. Hopkins, Duane C. Mcbride, Stuart Tyner, Jonathan Duffy

Faculty Publications

Young people in the Seventh-day Adventist Church are in need of leadership creating effective strategies for protecting the youngsters from engaging in high risk behaviors along with finding effective methods of keeping these same youngsters churched. It is clear that God had answers to these problems long ago. A review of Matthew 25 clearly states that our purpose as Christians should be to serve individuals in need. When young people engage in service, they are more likely to be attracted to the church, get involved in the church, and stay in the church. Furthermore, service is associated with better grades …

Transformational Youth Ministry, Allen Walshe

Faculty Publications

This paper will point out how deeply ingrained post-modern thinking has become in Western culture. It will remind us that our youth and young adults, who are post-modern, are not the enemy (as some would categorize them), but that they are ‘the beloved of God.’ We have been called and commissioned to reach them by the grace of God. This paper will argue that the church’s response to our post-modern youth, if it is to be efficacious, will require a paradigm shift, from its predominantly information style toward a more relational model of ministry. This can be facilitated by restructuring …

Reflections, Roger Dudley

Faculty Publications

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Church Of Refuge: A Support Ministry For Youth And Young Adults, Ron Whitehead, Jeff Boyd

Faculty Publications

At least 40 to 50 percent of youth and young adults leave the Seventh-day Adventist Church. To reverse this trend by helping local congregations meet the spiritual, social, and community impact needs of youth and young adults, the Center for Youth Evangelism proposes to launch Church of Refuge (COR). This organization will support churches in incorporating nine principles in their master planning. After demonstrating the inclusion of these principles, local congregations will be certified as Churches of Refuge and will be promoted to youth and young adults through web and print materials.

Organizational Leadership : A Study Of The Perceptions Of Servant Leadership Practices And Beliefs, And Its Implications For A Private Christian Institution Of Higher Education In Brazil, Jose Iran Miguel

Dissertations

Purpose. This study verified the perceptions of the workers of Brazil Adventist University (UNASP) regarding the beliefs and practices of servant leadership by using data collected online through the instrument called the Organizational Leadership Assessment (OLA), focusing on six key areas of organizational health, according to three independent variables, which are leadership categories, campus, and gender.

Method. As a quantitative comparative study, the relationship between dependent and independent variables was determined by means of a one-way multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and a 2 by 3 factorial design in order to observe significant differences and interactions between variables. …

The Millennial Generation: A Demographic, Ethnographic, And Religious Profile, Monte Sahlin

180 Symposium Publications

A new generation is emerging into adulthood in the first years of the new century. Born from 1977 through 1994, most are the offspring of parents in the Baby Boom generation. Just as their parents’ childhood and adolescence largely paralleled the development of television, so the Millennial generation has grown up with the Internet. They share many of the values and interests of their Baby Boomer parents, although the world is starkly different. There is much greater diversity, and global boundaries are transparent, while economic anxiety is increased. The young adults and teens in the Millennial generation tend to be …

Unity And Ministry Through The Massification Of Adventism, Van G. Hurst

180 Symposium Publications

The Seventh-day Adventist Church has a history of ministering to people groups who have been fractured from their original congregations or social norms (demassification) and then renew their identity in Adventism (remassification). The unique needs of today’s generations are a rapid remassification of youth groups who need to be discipled. The uniqueness of these youth, their need for parental influence, peer affirmation, and a horizontal leadership structure to enable future mentoring and ministry at minimal cost are a vital part of the cycle of ministry which appears to be currently nonexistent in many Adventist congregations.

Flew's Flight From Atheism (Faith & Science Update), Alberto R. Timm

Perspective Digest

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At World's End (Work Station Two), Gary B. Swanson

Perspective Digest

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Two Doors (Work Station Two), Gary B. Swanson

Perspective Digest

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What Is Normal? (Work Station Two), Gary B. Swanson

Perspective Digest

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Halloween And Seventh-Day Adventists (The Associate Editor's Desk), Gerhard Pfandl

Perspective Digest

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Draft Notice (Work Station Two), Gary B. Swanson

Perspective Digest

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Planting Diverse Ethnic Seventh-Day Adventist Churches In Berlin, Germany, Berndt Dietrich Wolter

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Purpose

The purpose of this dissertation is to develop a contextualized model for an ethnic church planting process in large cities such as Berlin.

Statement of Problem

The unchurched population of foreigners in Germany stands at around seven million with 450,000 of them living in Berlin. A few existing ethnic Adventist churches in Germany have been established in the past but no strategy has been developed to reach new foreign groups. Although there are some Adventist ethnic churches in Berlin, they have not developed a coherent strategy to reach the rest of the foreigners. The German attitude toward integration of …

How To Have A Christ-Centered Youth Ministry In A Small Church Using Mentoring, Missions And Meetings, Kris R. Eckenroth

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem

As of 2005, there was only one Seventh-day Adventist church within the Pennsylvania Conference that was providing consistent youth ministry. Many of the churches have seemed to have had difficulty finding individuals who have both the experience and the necessary training to lead a local church youth program. Due to the absence of local church youth ministry, the needs of the youth are being unmet and many are leaving the church.

Method

The method used to address this problem began in 2005. Training sessions were provided to potential leaders within the churches in the Pennsylvania Conference. There were five …

The Pluriformity Of The Alexandrian Text-Type In The Catholic Epistles, Coster Shimbaba Munyengwe

Dissertations

The Alexandrian text-type is traditionally known by textual critics to exist in two groups. In the mid-1970s, W. Larry Richards discovered a third Alexandrian group in his study of the Johannine Epistles. Kenneth Keumsang Yoo’s study of 1 Peter in 2001 confirmed the existence of the third group. This study attempted to determine whether the so-called third Alexandrian group exists in all of the books of the Catholic Epistles, and what the characteristics are of the readings in this group. Using factor analysis to form tentative groups for thirty manuscripts previously classified as Alexandrian in all three groups in the …

Osiek, Carolyn, And Margaret Y. Macdonald, With Janet H. Tulloch. Awoman’S Place: House Churches In Earliest Christianity. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2006. 345 Pp. Paper, $21.00., Teresa Reeve

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

This is a book review

Tutsch, Cindy. Ellen White On Leadership: Guidance For Those Who Influence Others. Nampa, Id: Pacific Press, 2008. 159 Pp. Hardcover, $16.99., Kenley D. Hall

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

This is a book review

Field G: Iron Age City Wall And Water Channel, Paul Z. Gregor

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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Ministering With Millennials: A Complete Report On The 180 Symposium, Roger Dudley, Allen Walshe

All Books

Millennials in your community range in age from 15 to 32. The youngest are in the early years of high school and the oldest may or may not be married with families. One important Millennial generation attribute is delayed commitment. Ministering with Millennials starts with a complete overview of this interesting and important generation.

Papers presented at the 180 Symposium covered five major ministry themes:

• The Search for Identity
• Relationships are the Key
• Spirituality is Essential
• There is a Call for Leadership
• A Theme of Service

Among the 25 papers included in Ministering with Millennials, you will find powerful …

Aleshire, Daniel O. Earthen Vessels: Hopeful Reflections On The Work And Future Of Theological Schools. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008. 177 Pp. Paper, $20.00., R. Clifford Jones

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

This is a book review

Hands-On Ministry, Keri Suarez

Lake Union Herald

No abstract provided.

Sukkot: The Feast Of Tabernacles

Shabbat Shalom: A Journal for Jewish-Christian Reconciliation

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Winterizing Homes And Warming Hearts, Robert Monrieff

Lake Union Herald

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Seminary Entrance Requirements, H. Peter Swanson

Faculty Publications

This paper presents an analysis of the published entrance requirements to Master of Divinity Programs at one hundred and thirty seminaries and divinity schools accredited by the Association of Theological Schools. Implications for Theological Education are considered.

Ucci Honored For 20+ Years Of Prison Ministry, Patricia M. Spangler

Lake Union Herald

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Divine Accommodation And Cultural Conditioning Of The Inspired Writings, Alberto R. Timm

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

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Junk Dna? (Faith & Science Update), John T. Baldwin

Perspective Digest

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