A strategy for evangelizing students of non-Adventist colleges in the Middle-West Korean Conference

Abstract

The importance of universities and colleges in modern society cannot be discounted. Colleges and universities produce the much needed human resources not only for the future society but also for the church.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Korea, especially the Middle-West Korean Conference, does not have a program intended specifically for campus ministry for Adventist college students and for evangelizing non-Adventist students on secular campuses. This reality is the main concern of this project; hence, its basic purpose is to formulate a strategry to evangelize college students attending secular colleges in Korea.

The strategy was formulated with the process listed below. Selected campus ministry groups, which are doing evanqelistic activities for college students on Korean college campuses, were analyzed. Then, the findings were evaluated by subjecting them to the judgment of the Bible and selected theologians' teachings. The emerging strategy was subsequently examined and compared wlth the cases of the schools of the prophets in or times and the ministries and teachings of Jesus and Paul, who were the greatest evangelists in Christian history.

This project finds that the small qroup structure and community life concept are effective methods for evangelizing college students and for training Adventist students attending secular colleges. On the basis of these findings, this project has developed a specific strategy for MWKC: small group ministry in campuses and the lodging house system outside campuses. It also presents a suggested curriculum and practical schedules for the trainlng of Adventist students for the evangelization of non-Adventist students on secular campuses.