To my loving and Christ-honoring wife, Felicia, you have been one of the greatest blessings I have received from Christ and a tremendous encourager. Question 25a: From your perspective, briefly describe what you hope to learn in the field of Lay Leadership Management. volunteers) when serving as an intern. Organizational Leadership (within the church staff) like that. it is about your church ministry as an intern.
This project will only be completed because of the tremendous support, love, patience and encouragement of the many people God has allowed to invest in my life. My wife, Felicia, has been one of the greatest blessings in my life and one of my greatest encouragements in this writing process. Also, my senior pastors, Reverend Jonathan Falwell and Reverend Michael Grooms, have given me the opportunity to live many of the things I have learned through this entire process, and I would like to thank these men and their ministries as well.
INTRODUCTION
The draft program standards for internships were limited to students of Liberty University's Department of Christian Leadership and Church Ministries;. The data collected has been analyzed and used in designing the new program standards for internships. This information helped shape the design of the new academic program standards for internships in the Christian Leadership and Church Ministry Department.
Are there foundations of ministry training in the Old Testament through the prophets? In the future, the student will be questioned and faced with the application of the truths that are taught. Part of the ministry training relationship is to point out teachings that are contrary to the gospel and what Christ has said.
Rogers, an American psychologist, states, “The most socially useful learning in the modern world is learning the learning process: a constant openness to experience and self-involvement of the process of change.20 Understanding how a student learns better is a critical part of the teaching-learning process. ELT defines learning as “the process where knowledge is created through the transformation of experience. The internship should be a great culmination and continuation of the experiential learning that has been part of the ministry training education.
According to Hillman, “The role of a college or seminary is not to force a student to grow mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually.
Age of Undergraduate Participants
Undergraduate ministry students from all majors and concentrations in the Department of Christian Leadership and Church Ministries were represented in the survey (see Figures 4 and 5). The majority of students in this undergraduate population studied youth ministry, which is representative of the department of ministry overall with youth ministry making up almost 50 percent of students. The religious composition of the students surveyed showed that the two largest groups represented were nondenominational and Southern Baptist.
When asked to identify the age at which the student became a follower of Christ, 68 percent of respondents indicated a school age of 6 to 14 years. Students were asked to identify the statement that best described their home life as they grew up. A majority, 66 percent of undergraduate ministry students, said their parents "strongly encouraged church attendance" along with 13 percent describing their home environment as parentally enforced church involvement.
Undergraduate ministry students were also asked to identify their home church involvement as a participant. For comparison, undergraduate students were also asked to identify their current church involvement as a participant. A quarter of respondents indicated that they were "very involved," meaning that they participated almost every time something was offered.
As shown in Figure 9, undergraduate ministry students were not as involved in their current church as they were in their home church; but more were "slightly included" in their stream than their home church. Students were not asked about their reasons for attending or lack of involvement in the respective churches. Ninety percent of undergraduates surveyed served as a lay leader in their home church, while 68 percent served as a lay leader or volunteer in a church other than their home church.
Students also indicated various roles they fulfilled as lay leaders in their church and predominantly students served as small group leaders and in the vacation Bible school. When asked if their home church had an internship program—formal or informal—more than half of the students responded with no knowledge of any type of internship program at their home church. Forty-eight percent of these students stated that their home congregation had a formal or informal8 type of internship program.
For this project, "informal" is a program that allows interns to participate in church service as the need arises, but there is no set curriculum in place for the intern to complete.
Home vs. Current Church Involvement
I hope to learn how to be able to disciple individuals and how to be an excellent communicator. I hope to learn how to be a confident speaker and know how to communicate properly. I would like to learn how to lead a church staff or part of a church staff.
I hope to be able to learn how to motivate, supervise and resolve conflict in oral communications. What I am managing (myself [soul, health, family, friends], my work [tasks, relationships, kingdom], my relationships [family, friends, God]) I hope to learn how to develop this skill more.
