The following is an excerpt from the first chapter of the Greenhouse Project:
“Big Picture Ministry
✱ Reaching students with the gospel and cultivating them into
genuine disciples.
✱ Teaching students the current “hot topics” while simultaneously
rooting them in biblical doctrine and principles.
✱ Having multiple adults involved in a student’s life with true
life-on-life ministry. This means youth leaders and [...]
April 27, 2009
Categories: Book Review, Leadership Development, Mike Calhoun, Raymond Deck . Tags: Biblical Principles, Cultural relevance, Evangelism, Leadership Development, Student Ministry, Youth Culture, youth ministry . Author: rwdeck . Comments: Leave a Comment
There is a growing trend in youth ministry over the last several years that I don’t particularly care for; fewer and fewer churches are taking their students to summer camp. Why is that? I think there are a variety of reasons. Here are a couple:
We think this generation of students doesn’t think camp is cool. [...]
April 20, 2009
Categories: Brian Baker, Youth Culture . Tags: Camp, youth ministry . Author: bpbaker . Comments: Leave a Comment
Brian’s post a few days ago was excellent as far as I’m concerned. He basically said that we should take to the streets to celebrate Christ because He has won the victory for us over sin and death. His blog elicited a comment from someone who said that yes, we should celebrate Christ, but we [...]
April 14, 2009
Categories: Evangelism, Raymond Deck . Tags: Allah, Cultural relevance, Evangelism, Gospel, Islam, Tolerance . Author: rwdeck . Comments: 1 Comment
Monday night, many in my home state celebrated a championship in college basketball. Franklin Street was slammed full of people. What were they celebrating? Victory! Defeat is hard to swallow but victory is so sweet to taste. It is something that can never be taken away. Those who experience it will never forget it.
As a [...]
April 10, 2009
Categories: Brian Baker, Evangelism . Tags: celebrate, Easter, Jesus . Author: bpbaker . Comments: Leave a Comment