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Prospective Students
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I am so excited
that you
are considering Lincoln Christian College as the college where you will prepare
for life and ministry. I am even more excited that you are
considering youth
ministry as your major. Check out
the
Youth Ministry Program Promo on PowerPoint!
You are here because you are interested in
Youth Ministry at LCC! We want to get to know you better.
Take a couple of minutes to complete the
Online Prospective
Student Info Form right now. After you complete it, it will
bring you back here!
Youth ministry is one of the most important ministries of the church.
It is true that churches do grow when there are strong children and
youth ministries offered for young families. But that is not the only reason
that youth ministry is one of the most crucial ministries of the church. It is because kids must go through the seven most crucial years
of their lives, adolescence.
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It is during these years that youth make choices that could very well affect the next 70 years of
their lives, their children’s lives, and even their grand children’s lives.
And these seven most crucial years are the time when the battle for the
hearts and souls of students is at its greatest intensity. Our culture
is bent on winning. We must not let this happen. We must partner
with parents and help them to become the most influential spiritual guides
in their kids lives. We must help the church be sensitive to the needs
of young people and be energized to invest the time, money, and the hard
work of building quality relationships with them.
At Lincoln Christian
College,
 | you will be taught to think
and to develop a biblical worldview that will help you to become a competent leader, prepared to enter ministry as as
someone who uses his/her Head; |
| you will invited to join a
community of believers and youth ministers dedicated to growing
together, networking resources, encouraging one another, and joining
Hands with each other in this challenging ministry to the
world's children and youth; |
| you will be confronted and
mentored with
the issues of the Heart so that God may work in you to bring
about the shaping, molding, and forming of your character to
the likeness of Jesus; |
| you will be challenged to
take what you have learned and experienced from your head, heart, and
hands to your Heels to make ministry connections
in practical ways in the lives of children and youth. You will
develop a passion to serve, lead, and carry out the mission of Jesus:
to make disciples. |
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The youth ministry program is designed to prepare students with a
mature, well-formed worldview mind that is biblically equipped,
theologically sound, culturally aware, and strategically prepared to
serve in a variety of youth ministry situations within the church and
in para-church organizations.
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Besides classroom
instruction, we seek to accomplish the above Head goals through
challenging questions, interacting discussions, real and practical
situational problem-solving, and disciplined thinking. These will
happen not only in the youth ministry classes, but more importantly in all
the classes on our campus. (In fact, every class that you will take is
part of the foundation that you need to be a godly, effective Christian
leader. Our Bible and Theology classes are the real youth ministry
classes!)
We seek to address
students' Heart issues through worship in various settings and times
(Chapels, Focus, etc.), small spiritual formation and accountability groups,
one-on-one mentoring encounters, and the constant call to daily seek God in
a personal spiritual journey
We seek to have a whole
campus community feeling, but we also seek to join Hands and develop
a community among us who are committed to minister to youth in some way.
We do this through getting all the youth ministry students together several
times a semester in a youth ministry group, called The Forum.
The Forum is a great environment to network, share ideas, deal with youth
ministry dilemmas, and connect students who need to find ministry
opportunities with students who need other students to plug into ministry
with them. We simply encouraged students to do whatever it takes to become
disciple-making youth ministers.
The
Mentored
Ministry Program and the
Internship Program, besides regular ongoing ministry opportunities, are
how we deal with the Heels goals. We make volunteer and paid
ministry opportunities known so that students can get connected to the real
world.
Youth ministry is not
about creating cool youth groups, providing incredible youth events, or
changing nice kids into nice adults. Those things may happen. Youth
ministry is simply about reaching students with the good news of Jesus and
making them disciples who will be life followers of our Savior. We are
consumed with that mission.
No matter if God calls
you to minister...
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in the church as a
youth minister leading a team of workers that minister to kids birth to
college (most start here) |
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in the church as a Jr.
High or High School Minister |
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in an inner-city youth
ministry |
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cross-culturally in a
youth ministry on the mission field |
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with a para-church
organization such as Christ in Youth or Youth for Christ |
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on the college campus
as a campus minister for students who are preparing for ministry in a
vocation of the non-church world |
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in a counseling youth
setting (you need a masters in counseling also) |
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as a REAL youth
minister... being a great parent or youth coach |
...then Lincoln Christian
College is for you. Check out the
prospective students
page on LCC's homepage. You need to talk with Greg Taylor, the
Director of Admissions. He can answer any of your questions about
college itself. Check out the
campus visits page if you
would like to know about visiting our campus (click on the campus visits
page to for immediate dates). When you do, be sure to look me up.
If schedule allows, we can go to lunch and chat more about your future
ministry preparation here at LCC.
I am excited that God has
begun working in your heart right now. So, no matter what you decide,
I pray that God will continue to prepare you to be a life-impacting,
disciple-making youth minister.
If you have any questions
about the youth ministry program, check out the
Frequently Asked
Questions (FAQ) page to see if there are answers there, or just call
(217.732.3168 ext 2299) or email me
rramsey@lccs.edu and I will help you get the answers you want and need.
Want my 2 cents on what you could do in the next year or two as you get
ready to come to LCC, read the Frequently Asked Questions page. There
is a Q on there about that!
I hope to meet you soon
and have you join the company of world-changers who call themselves youth
ministers.
Help me to get to
know you better by completing the
Online Prospective Student
Info Form. After you complete it, it will bring you back to this
page! This way I can know
who you are before you ever get on campus.
Check out the
Youth Ministry Program Promo on PowerPoint!
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