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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

Justin Kim, Amy Sheppard, and Nomthandazo Malambo:  GPA's and SDA's

Justin Kim

A Work That Must Be Done: The Prophecy of Public Campus Ministries

Nomthandazo Malambo-Amankwah

Led and Taught of God: The Methodology of Public Campus Ministries

Amy Sheppard

The Strongest Argument: The Adventist Life as a Witness on Campus

Redeeming the Time: A Philosophy of Adventist Time Management

Christ’s Method: A Practical Approach in Ministering to Academia

Higher Education Goes Higher: The Mission of Bibliocentric Students

Gracious Father, it's easy to get pushed by a schedule.

Lord, we desire to be pushed by the Holy Spirit.

Lord, we ask that you see the sincerity in our hearts, And we declare to you we are sinners and we need the blood of Jesus to cover us at all times.

And Lord, we desire to aspire to be like Jesus only by your grace.

So Father, bless my brothers and sisters in this humble little room and ask that to drill open our hearts and our minds, to be open for what heaven would teach us today.

Second and fifth will be done by Amy Shepard.

Anyway, you'll find out if you sit around here.

The seminar is entitled, A Work That Must Be Done, A Prophecy of Public Campus Ministries.

And I am a program director for the Michigan Conference Public Campus Ministries Department in Michigan.

My name is Justin Kim, by the way, if you guys want to take notes.

You guys can tell who the public students are because you're writing down everything that I'm saying already.

That's only something that campus kids do.

It shows you that you're attentive and you're used to the seminar format.

What we're going to purport today is the need for campus ministries.

And for those of you, how many of you are in a campus ministry right now, either as a student or as a worker right now, please raise your hand nice and high, be unashamed of who you are, and show your armpit stains that you have.

We want to, at least for those of you listening in, we want to at least inspire and instruct on why we should do campus ministries.

This is not a stage in your life that while you're in campus that you do campus ministries, while you're on a university you do campus ministries.

This is a calling that we're trying to get the word out on.

Today, the first session will be a study in spirit of prophecy.

Ellen White has a lot to talk about public campus ministries and a lot of them are instructions and a lot of them are warnings.

And I think it's very fruitful for us to study.

So if in this first seminar is a lot of spirit of prophecy quotes here, the writings from Ellen White, Please don't be discouraged.

I don't believe the other seminar is going to be such, but this 1 is just because of the nature of it.

The subtitle is The Prophecy of Public Campus Ministries.

In the 2003 General Conference Commission Report on Higher Education, they're estimating that 75% of Adventist young people were currently enrolled in non-Avenist educational institutions.

Recent estimates have pushed up to 91 or 92%, okay?

The remaining percentage is either not going to college, which is popular in the southern or the midwestern states, or they're going to the avid institutions such as Andrews, I'm going blank, Southern, La Sierra, UC, PUC, whatever the UCs there are out there.

So what's happening, the rest of the youth are going to state schools because, 1, they're cheaper.

They're going to better schools academically because they're economically better, there's more opportunities.

There are majors that are being offered, etc.

What's happening is you have the most talented young people who are entering into a field where they can easily lose their faith.

That's a potential future tithe money that the church could be raking back in.

Okay, I'm not having a cynical, the church is after your money perspective, but this is a reality, yes?

And if we go and get a higher degree and we go into the world and make money and the Lord blesses us, shouldn't that money go back to the Lord's work?

But if they lose their faith on campus, what happens to that future potential?

And then the smartest Adventists, actually, if the opportunity is given to them, they're going to go to the Harvards and Yales, MITs and Stanfords.

The church is very scared to invest in secular education because, 1, they don't believe in it.

They shouldn't believe in secular education.

But if 75% to 92% of the young people are leaving, shouldn't they invest in a ministry for students in that field?

Yes, okay, does that mean we endorse people who are going to prison?

We're ministering to them because they're there anyway.

2003, you can find that, you can go to, the link is there, that was Access 2005.

Next year in the 2010 GC session, there will be another report and we'll get you an update if that happens.

By the way, this is to kind of blast some of you.

Education is not a degree, and I know you know that, but what is education?

Education is not a bachelor's degree, it's not knowing more stuff.

It's not using high vocabulary just because you know it and use it in a public setting and pretend you're smarter than everyone else.

Ellen White writes, It starts from birth.

You are educated since you were in your mother's tummy.

It continues throughout life and throughout eternity.

It's in the context of the great controversy.

I'm going to go fast here because this stuff is just for you.

Just wash it over your brain and later we're going to go into the main stuff.

I'll tell you when it is and you can start writing that.

The great controversy were character development for humanity and the ministry of Jesus.

Character development is the main point of education.

Is character development the main focus on public universities right now?

Does the professor care less about your moral and ethical foundation outside of philosophy professors?

Okay, and the majority of those philosophy professors have a different agenda altogether.

Education should lead individuals to be like Jesus in character and also to be what?

And that's the primary focus of education, to be useful.

University students after they graduate, are they useful?

You're not answering because you feel guilty in saying no.

I mean, What function do you have in society?

You just mooch off of a democratic system that we have today.

And can you be useful in the public university?

And hopefully that GYC students and Avenis students who are converted can get that.

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Justin Kim, Amy Sheppard, and Nomthandazo Malambo: GPA's and SDA's

A Work That Must Be Done: The Prophecy of Public Campus Ministries

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