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  <h1 style="text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in"><font size="5" color="#FF0000">CHAPTER 
  13.--THE EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY</font></h1>
  <p style="text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">11-07 <span style="color: blue">
	<font size="4">A.</font><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial"><font size="4">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
  </font>
  </span><font size="4">INTRODUCTION</font></span></p>
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">An article in Population 
  Today, October 2002, suggests that, �Cohabitation is profoundly reshaping 
  family life in the US. The share of children born to parents who lived 
  together but were not married nearly doubled between 1984 and 1994, to 11%. 
  Even more scary is the prediction that 40% of children before their 16<sup>th</sup> 
  birthday, will live with their unmarried mother and her live-in�. The 
  evangelical church has a growing concern for 80.5 million American youth under 
  age 19 who are being reared in �households which are reconfigured several 
  times�, that are floundering and dysfunctional. A child born to a single 
  mother will spend half their childhood in a single-parent family, 20% in a 
  cohabiting family and 30% with married parents. Youth are growing up in a 
  hedonistic and selfish society that is morally deteriorating, and who are 
  being educated in a system that is based on a philosophy of secular humanism. 
  They are part of roughly one-third of the world�s population. The children of 
  the world are highly vulnerable, for UNICEF indicates that 1 million are being 
  forced into child prostitution every year, while 15 million are forced into 
  child labor. Two hundred and fifty million between ages 5 and 14 are forced 
  into child labor. One hundred and sixty million children live on the streets. 
  Annually, 12 million children under age 5 die. Those who survive, earn their 
  income from vending, begging, stealing or prostitution. The number of street 
  children [orphans, abandoned or runaways - 1 to 1.5 million annually] has been advanced by the increase of 
  HIV/AIDS. Perhaps more sobering is the article in Christianity Today which 
  notes that 34% of adults in 2006 claim to be evangelicals. At the same time 
  there is the largest number of teens over the last decade, but it is predicted 
  that only 4% will join the ranks of evangelicals as adults.</span></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">Thirty percent of 
  school-aged children live with parents who have been divorced at least once. 
  In 1995, one fourth of 33 million families with children under 18, was led by 
  a single parent. Fourteen million children [20%], have at least one foreign 
  born parent. By 2002, a majority of youth have mothers who work outside the 
  home [3 IN 5]. Even 2/3rds of&nbsp; mothers with preschoolers work outside the 
  home. Both parents working means they are juggling three careers�two at work 
  and one at home.&nbsp; Therefore, guidance at home is at a minimum much of the time 
  or transferred to day care operators (22,000 professional and 25,000 sponsored 
  by churches). Few parents realize that 69 percent of their teenagers consult 
  horoscopes for decision making, and 90 percent are concerned about their 
  zodiac sign. It is estimated that children spend at least forty hours per week 
  watching television and witness 13,000 made-for-TV killings and 100,000 acts 
  of violence before they are 15 years old. TV is intent on capturing the four 
  to twelve year old�s attention for they spend $17 billion on food, clothes and 
  toys. Todays teens watch TV or listen to the radio nine hours per day.</span></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">Phyllis Kilbourn in <i>
  Children in Crisis</i> [MARC 1996], writes,</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: ">&nbsp;</span></p>
  <p  style="margin-left: .25in; margin-right: .25in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt">
  <span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: ">Traditionally people 
  assumed children would be protected by adult members of society. What an 
  indictment on many societies, including American, that children as young as 
  three years of age must now be taught to protect themselves from perpetrators 
  of the violence and abuse that have become a part of daily life in their homes 
  and neighborhoods!</span></p>
  <p  style="margin-left: .25in; margin-right: .25in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt">
  <span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: ">&nbsp;</span></p>
  <p  style="margin-left: .25in; margin-right: .25in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt">
  <span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: ">Far too often in the 
  church�s ministry, children in desperate need of love and acceptance, security 
  and hope, beauty and joy are marginal when they should be at the heart of the 
  church�s mission. pp., 15.</span></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">By age 11 many begin to 
  drink and by age 16, eighty-four percent of boys and 78 percent of girls use 
  alcohol, making it the number one drug problem. Between the ages of 10 and 15, 
  50 percent of American youth experiment with drugs. USNWR reported [10/17/05] 
  that at least 80 percent of 
  teenagers before the age of 15 are said to be sexually active and 40 percent of teenaged girls will 
  become pregnant. In 1982 that represented one million teenaged girls, 
  one-third of them under 15. During the decade of the 1980s, premarital 
  pregnancies doubled to 14 percent for 15 to 19 year olds and accounted for 
  half of all illegitimate births and one-third of all abortions. The US teenage 
  pregnancy rate is highest in the world�97 per 1,000. It is sad to note that 
  20% of adolescents contemplate suicide by the end of high school. One in ten 
  attempts suicide and 2000 succeed. Five percent of teens have a major 
  depression and 500,000 attempt suicide.</span></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">The suicide rate for 
  white males of the same age increased by 66 percent, so that suicide is the 
  number one cause of death among adolescents [6,000 per year]. It is probably 
  the highest suicide rate of any age group. In 1981 juveniles accounted for 20 
  percent of all serious crime and 40 percent of all criminal arrests. Every day 
  15 children are killed by firearms. Nearly 9,000 children are reported abused 
  or neglected every day. The Legal Alert [3/05] reports that more than one 
  million children are victims of abuse and neglect each year. One in three 
  girls and one in five boys will be abused by the age of eighteen. Some 20% have carried a gun. Fifty-three percent of 
  teenagers experiment with sex without protection and drink alcohol, while 35% 
  experiment with smoking.<i> </i>Some teenagers who live on the edge will die, 
  72% from motor vehicle crashes, homicide and suicide.&nbsp; Living in this milieu, 
  America's youth are in deep trouble according to McGeady in <i>Does God Still 
  Love Me? </i>[Covenant House 1995].<i> </i>No wonder one-fourth will never 
  graduate from high school.</span></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">The <b>church</b> <b>
  should be concerned</b> because 80 percent of those under 14 <u>never go</u> 
  to church [those under 14 represent 1.8 billion] and 83 percent of children raised in the church <u>leave it by age 
  16.</u> Three out of four teenagers do not read the Bible. In fact, only six 
  percent of all teenagers use the Bible regularly and 20 percent of churched 
  teens, according to a 1980 Gallup survey. A 2005 survey reveals that 13 year 
  olds do not believe the Devil exists, you can earn your way into heaven, all 
  sacred books are valuable, praying to saints is effective, life doesn't really 
  have a meaning, there are no absolute standards, etc. School age youth, then, have become 
  a major mission opportunity in the United States. It is estimated that 43% of 
  North American Christians made the <u>decision for Christ</u> <u>before they 
  were thirteen, and </u>64% before the age of 18. Between the ages of 18 - 21, 
  only 13% made that decision. Twenty-five percent of Christians made the 
  decision after they were 21. Most before teenage decisions were made under the 
  influence of their parents or a friend. Perhaps 10% of decisions for Christ 
  are made in the church.&nbsp; Because the prime years for surrendering to Christ for 
  service are between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five, the church should be 
  especially concerned to reach the academic community. Barna researchers in 
  2004, reported:</span></p>
  <p ><font size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Unless 
  young children are taught how to tie their religious beliefs into daily 
  behavior, chances of faith influencing their lifestyle in significant ways is 
  slim. Also, habits&nbsp; formed while young are behaviors that define us when 
  we are old.</span></font></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">One problem to be faced 
  is that sixty percent of teenagers <b>work</b> at least part-time and spend 
  $35 billion. A second problem concerns the 2.6 million (and growing) number of 
  children aged five to fifteen who have a limited English proficiency [<b>LEP</b>] 
  because their mother tongue is one of many different languages. The 1990 
  census report indicates that <u>one in seven families</u> uses other than 
  English in the home. It is estimated that by the year 2025, minorities will 
  account for almost half of U. S. children. In NYC, students come from at least 
  188 countries and speak as many as 100 languages. in the states of CA, NM, TX, 
  NY, and AZ, at least one in five school-age children speak other than English 
  at home. One in 25 lives in a home where no one speaks English well. They are 
  said to be <b>linguistically isolated. </b>Further, WORLD magazine, 2/03, p9, 
  reported that 60-70% of African-American and Hispanic children in NYC are 
  illiterate.</span></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">The church must also 
  face an internal problem involving their own youth leaving the church. One 
  survey shows that when <u>both parents</u> attend church, seventy-two percent 
  of their children remain faithful to the church. When the <u>father alone</u> 
  attends, fifty percent of the children remain attenders, but when <u>mother</u> 
  takes the children to church, only fifteen percent remain faithful to the 
  church.</span></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">Josh McDowell wrote in 
  December 2003 newsletter, �I fear that my kids will spend their childhood and 
  teenage years in the church and walk away unchanged.� Further he suggests that 
  we need to bring our kids to a face to face encounter with Christ, such that 
  it changes their lives. However, our postmodern culture has completely 
  distorted our foundational beliefs. Ninety-one percent&nbsp; of kids believe that 
  all truth is relative. What beliefs they have never are personalized into 
  action. Bill McCartney of Promise Keepers says that our youth are floundering 
  in a sea of moral relativity.</span></p>
	<p ><font size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial">In 2007 research 
	indicates that 40 million children in the US have not heard the Gospel.</span></font></p>
	<p ><span style="color: blue"><font size="4">B.</font><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial"><font size="4">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
  </font>
  </span><font size="4">PUBLIC SCHOOL MINISTRIES</font></span></p>
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">A third of the world�s 
  population is under 15. It is estimated that 80% of the world�s youth [1.4 
  billion] are growing up in non-Christian settings. </span>
  <span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">The church in America is desirous of 
  evangelizing America's youth not only because they are lost, but also because 
  they are in their prime years for being saved. Research suggests that in 
	America in 2007, there are 40 million children who have never heard the 
	Gospel. Children under the age of 18 
  represent in 2004, 14 million in rural America, and 58 million in urban areas. 
  According to Child Evangelism Fellowship estimates, statistics show that 60 percent of church members and 
  eighty-five percent of those serving as missionaries were saved as children. 
  Furthermore, it is estimated that ninety percent of all who are born again 
  made that decision before they were twenty years old. But only thirty-three 
  percent of America's youth go to church; therefore, it is necessary to look 
  for them elsewhere. The one place most youth gather daily and spend one-fourth 
  of their time is in school. The school, then, is the logical place to expose 
  America's youth to biblical truth. However, there are problems to be faced in 
  presenting the Bible in the public schools.</span></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">In a pluralistic and 
  democratic society, the right of all religious groups must be protected. In 
  countries where a particular religion is in the majority and the constitution 
  does not preclude it, the beliefs of the predominant religious group may be 
  taught exclusively in the school system. Pakistan is an example. In that 
  country, Islam&nbsp; &nbsp;is taught 
  in the public schools as mandated by law. That kind of religious exposure 
  cannot be practiced in America because the first amendment forbids it.</span></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">In Protestant America, 
  by 1913 twelve states required daily Bible reading and prayers during homeroom 
  exercises or assembly programs. The Bible was also included as a subject 
  taught in the standard curriculum. Many of the teachers and administrators 
  were Christians, and school boards, elected from primarily Christian 
  communities, sensed that they had community approval for Christian instruction 
  at public expense.</span></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">During the 1940s 
  religious minorities became vocal about their rights and complained about 
  unwelcome religious indoctrination of their children in the local schoolroom. 
  School officials were responsive and began to modify the religious programming 
  in the schools. Where the Bible was read, out of deference to the Jewish 
  students, only passages from the Old Testament were used. Bible classes were 
  offered on a voluntary basis and those who attended had to obtain written 
  permission from their parents indicating that they had no objection to their 
  children's attending. Those children who did not have permission for this 
  instruction were permitted to move to the back of the room or go to another 
  room.</span></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">By 1948 the Supreme 
  Court determined, in the McCullam case, that religious teaching could not take 
  place on school premises because that violated the First Amendment. After that 
  date, most Bible teaching was removed from the public schools. However, 
  justice Arthur Goldberg clearly stated that teaching about the Bible should be 
  included in literature or history courses. Justice Tom Clark noted that 
  education without the study of religion is incomplete and that such study is 
  not prohibited by the First Amendment. In certain communities that are 
  overwhelmingly Christianized, found primarily in Appalachia, the Bible is 
  still taught in schools during school hours.</span></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">The Supreme Court 
  further decided in 1962 that Bible reading and prayers could no longer be 
  mandated by law. That decision has been challenged by different groups of 
  students who wished to conduct their own prayer meetings on school premises 
  before school began. As late as December of 1981, the Supreme Court has upheld 
  the 1962 decision for public elementary and secondary schools. However, in 
  December 1981, in a separate ruling, the same Court determined that state 
  colleges and universities must allow all student groups to worship and hold 
  religious discussions in campus buildings.</span></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">Although the Supreme 
  Court decision effectively removed the Bible from the public schools, there 
  continued to be widespread interest in religious instruction being given 
  students during school hours but <u>off school premises</u>. By 1952 it was 
  determined that school officials could release the students to go to a nearby 
  church or other facility for instruction in the faith of their choice. All 
  costs for such instruction are borne by the church or mission providing the 
  teaching.</span></p>
  <h3><font color="#008080">1.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7.0pt; font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
  </span>Released-Time Bible Classes</font></h3>
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">Approximately twelve 
  mission organizations seek to conduct <b>released-time Bible classes</b> for 
  37,000,000 school children in thousands of grade schools and high schools 
  across the United States. Most of this activity seems to be taking place in 
  states east of the Mississippi. Among many ministries, Rural Bible Mission is 
  located in Michigan; Scripture Memory Mountain Mission holds classes in 
  Kentucky; Bible to Youth Crusade ministers in Pennsylvania; and Southern 
  Highland Evangel has a ministry in Virginia.</span></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">One innovative approach 
  to providing a facility for released-time classes involves a chapel-on-wheels, 
  which may be a trailer or self-propelled vehicle specially prepared as a 
  classroom. Among others, Children's Bible Mission, which conducts ministries 
  in eight states from Pennsylvania to Florida, sends the missionary to the 
  public school in a <u>mobile chapel</u>. This moveable classroom is parked 
  near the school property so that the students can walk to the facility during 
  their released-time. Various classes frequent the chapel throughout the day, 
  and then the chapel is moved to another school in a regular circuit</span></p>
  <h3><font color="#008080">2.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7.0pt; font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
  </span>Bible Clubs</font></h3>
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">Christian students can 
  be found in most schools. The number, however, is declining. By 1981 the <b>
  Christian School Movement</b> claimed 3,000,000 students attending nearly 
  15,000 schools. Three additional schools open every day. The exodus of 
  Christian students is making the public school more of a mission field than 
  ever. In addition the Supreme Court decided (June 1982) that 20,000 to 30,000 
  children of illegal aliens are entitled to a free public education. In 
  response to this opportunity, several groups send missionaries to the public 
  schools to seek out the Christian students and organize<u> Bible </u>clubs. 
  Brandt Reed, founder of <u>High School Evangelism</u></span><u><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt "> 
  Fellowship</span></u><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">, states that the 
  purpose of their Hi-BA clubs (High School Born-Againers) is to stimulate 
  fellowship, Bible study, Scripture memorization, and <i>personal witness</i> 
  to fellow students.</span></p>
   
  <p ><u><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">Youth For Christ</span></u><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt "> 
  establishes 2,000 clubs each year in grade schools and high schools across the 
  country. They send 1,000 missionaries into the public schools to discover 
  Christian students or lead students to Christ, and establish clubs for their 
  encouragement through local chapters in 500 communities and 1250 cities.</span></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">Oscar Hirt, former 
  Director Emeritus of the <u>Bible Club Movement</u> (BCM) says that they 
  prepare many of the materials their missionaries use. The objective of BCM, as 
  that of other club ministries, is to direct the students into local churches 
  for involvement in Sunday schools, youth programs, and all the church 
  activities.</span></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">The place and time of 
  club meetings varies. Clubs meet at the school <u>before classes</u> begin, 
  during the noon lunch hour, or right <u>after school</u>. It is usually 
  necessary to have a teacher sponsor the club if it meets on the premises. 
  Other clubs meet off campus, most often in a nearby home and just after school 
  hours.</span></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">A national fellowship of 
  youth ministries, <u>Youth Evangelism</u></span><u><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt "> 
  Association</span></u><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">, 
  maintains a membership directory of thirty-four organizations whose purposes 
  are:</span></p>
   
  <p  style="margin-left: .25in">
  <span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: ">to promote aggressive 
  Biblical evangelism through mass meetings, personal witness, the media, 
  printed page and every legitimate means possible ... and to be a fellowship of 
  men and women (and organizations) helping each other in the cause of youth 
  evangelism, holding high standards of Christian separation, teaching the 
  Bible, emphasizing consecrated, victorious Christian living, and providing 
  leadership training.&nbsp;</span></p>
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">It should be noted, 
  however, according to Jay Kessler, president of Youth For Christ, that even 
  with this activity, all nondenominational youth organizations put together are 
  active in only <b>15 percent of the</b> <b>nation's high schools</b>. Some 
  youth organizations are constituted as a mission, but their primary ministry 
  consists of assisting the local church in beginning a ministry or expanding 
  its current ministry by training church people to minister to youth.</span></p>
   
  <p ><b><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">Child Evangelism Fellowship</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt "> (CEF), founded in 
  1937, establishes Good News Clubs in schools and homes. The hostess in the 
  home is often a member of the sponsoring church. She opens her home for the 
  club, which is conducted by someone who has been trained in special sessions 
  held in the local church by the area CEF director. The director is a 
  missionary who trains local church members to function not as &quot;missionaries&quot; 
  but as effective Christians. CEF has 600 missionaries in the United States and 
  many overseas, who marshal the help of thousands of laymen to win young people 
  to Christ and to encourage them to become active church members. CEF maintains 
  a number of different ministries. It designs and publishes its own materials, 
  including visuals. In the summer, <u>Five-Day Clubs</u> are conducted in the 
  out-of-doors. High school and college young people are recruited and trained 
  at one of the CEF area headquarters. The recruits then spend their summer 
  teaching the clubs as summer missionaries. By faith they trust the Lord to 
  provide some stipend for their work. The children who make salvation decisions 
  are encouraged to<u> join the Mailbox Club</u>, which is a follow-up Bible 
  correspondence course. They are also encouraged to tune in to the television 
  program <u>&quot;Tree House Club.&quot;</u> In addition CEF sponsors a telephone 
  ministry called <u>&quot;Tell-A-Story,&quot;</u> and a radio program, <u>&quot;Kids Bible 
  Club.&quot;</u></span></p>
   
  <p ><b><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">Word of Life Clubs</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt "> 
  were developed as a ministry of Jack Wyrtzen's Word of Life Fellowship. These 
  clubs are established in <u>local churches</u> by Word of Life missionaries 
  who train local church members to administer the program. Club members are 
  encouraged to recruit their unsaved friends at school to attend the club with 
  them. The area missionary sponsors numerous youth-oriented programs throughout 
  the year to train and involve the members in Christian activities. Other 
  organizations of a similar nature are <b>Pro-Teens</b>, a program of <b>
  Positive Action for Christ</b>; <b>Boys Brigade and Pioneer Girls</b>; and <b>
  Awana&nbsp; Youth Association</b>, with 60 missionaries, maintains approximately 
  6,600 clubs for 500,000 clubbers</span></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">Materials and uniforms 
  are available for purchase from their headquarters. Challenging programs 
  encourage the members to earn advancement in rank. Points are earned by 
  reading the Bible, memorizing Scripture, attending church, bringing guests, 
  and participating in the various programs.</span></p>
	<p ><font size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial">E-3 Partners has 
	developed an evangelistic explosion CUBE, bracelets, balls, etc. to be used 
	in encouraging children to give their testimony to their friends. Check out 
	their website. They are located in Plano, TX.&nbsp; www.e3partners.org.</span></font></p>
	<p >&nbsp;</p>
  <h2><span style="color: blue"><font size="4">C.</font><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial"><font size="4">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
  </font>
  </span><font size="4">Christian Camping</font></span></h2>
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">Another related youth 
  ministry is Christian camping. Camping programs are an integral part of many 
  youth ministries conducted in local schools or churches. A week at camp may be 
  earned as a reward for memorizing Scripture or some other special service 
  rendered. There are probably 10,000 camps in the United States, 40 percent of 
  which are religiously oriented. Some local churches own and run their own 
  camps. Others maintain a cooperative camp with several churches. Some rent the 
  facilities of a professional camp and provide their staff and program. Perhaps 
  5 percent of camps are profit-making businesses.</span></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">Several hundred camps 
  have developed as home mission organizations. Frequently, the camp ministry is 
  one of several ministries conducted by the parent organization. <b>Alpine 
  Bible Camp</b>, for instance, is a ministry of the Appalachian Bible 
  Fellowship (ABF). The ABF is a mission agency maintaining three ministries 
  including the Appalachian Bible College, Appalachian Bible Conference, and 
  Alpine Bible Camp. Rev. Doug Clark, Executive Director of <b>Bible Impact 
  Ministries</b> in St. James, Missouri, maintains that the thrust of their 
  ministries to America�s youth, including Whispering Winds Bible Camp, is 
  �Reaching Tomorrow�s Leaders�.</span></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">In Pounding Mill, 
  Virginia, the Southern Highland Evangel Mission maintains a public school 
  ministry, a church-planting ministry and <b>Camp Evangel</b> in rural 
  Virginia. <b>Camp Nathaniel</b> is administered by Scripture Memory Mountain 
  Mission that also sponsors the teaching of the Bible in the public schools and 
  church planting in eastern Kentucky (see chapter 14).</span></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">The membership directory 
  of Christian Camping International (CCI) lists 750 member organizations, representing 4,000 staff 
  members. Camps are listed for all but four states. CCI has divided the United 
  States into five regions, with the western region having the largest number of 
  camps.</span></p>
  <h2><span style="color: blue"><font size="4">D.</font><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial"><font size="4">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
  </font>
  </span><font size="4">COLLEGE MINISTRIES</font></span></h2>
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">Annually 2.2 million 
  students take the most widely used college entrance exam called Scholastic 
  Aptitude Test [SAT] which is regarded as a measure of abstract reasoning. A 
  good score [1380-1570 average at Harvard] was necessary for some 15.2 million 
  students who are enrolled in college. [60 million collegians in world]. Seven 
  million are males and 8 million are females. A third of students are employed 
  full time as well. Over a million speak a foreign language, primarily, 
  Spanish, French and German, followed by Russian, Italian and Latin. There are 
  over 4 million college campuses in the United States, 2.3 million are 4 year 
  institutions. 117 are Black campuses. Only a small percentage of all campuses 
  have any valid, full time on-campus representation of the gospel. Collegians 
  are a mission field because at least 60 percent do not attend church even once 
  a week (according to a Gallup pole). Further, it is suggested that 55% of 
  Christian students from Christian homes will deny their faith before they 
  graduate from college. [WORLD8/24/02 p.28]. African-Americans and Hispanics 
  make up 31% of college-age population, but only 17% of students.</span></p>
	<p ><font size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial">Although the number of 
	American collegians, aged 35-64 is the largest in the world, the number of 
	graduates 25-34 is only number 7 in the world. Far too many are dropping 
	out.</span></font></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">&nbsp;Since 1980 more women 
  than men are enrolled. Women earn about 57% of BAs. Many campuses are over 60% 
  female. About 1/3rd of the men are part-time students opposed to almost half 
  of the women students. By 1994, 1.5 million were blacks, 1.2 million were 
  Hispanic and .9 million were Asians. Dr. Tsu-Kung Chuang suggests in <i>
  Ripening Harvest</i>, [1996] that since 1980, 100,000 students and scholars 
  from Mainland China have come to the US to study, disillusioned with Marxism. 
  They are �one of the world�s most strategic and fruitful mission fields.� 
  315,000 are from Asia, 42,000 from India. In 2002 there were 50,000 Chinese 
  students in US. In 2005, 14% return to China. In contrast, 47% of those 
  studying in the UK return and 37% of those studying in Germany. </span></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">What an opportunity to 
  influence the world�s emerging leadership. The college campus as a mission 
  field is being neglected according to Edmund Lidell, dean of the University of 
  Denver. He says:</span></p>
   
  <p><font size="2" face="Arial">�If there's any one segment of society of 
  Christian life that's bankrupt, it's the campus ministry....It's my particular 
  point of view right now that the church has dramatically, drastically and I 
  think sometimes thoughtlessly, abandoned the basic precepts that gave it the 
  vitality for life it once had.</font><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: ">&nbsp;</span></p>
  <p><font size="2" face="Arial">There are said to be 75,000 Muslim 
  international students on US campuses.</font></p>
  <p style="text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">
  <font face="Arial">
  <span style="font-size: 10.0pt">The number of students continuing their 
  studies into graduate schools [883,000] is increasing in the US, according to&nbsp; 
  statistics released for 2002. Those taking the Graduate Record Examination 
  [GRE] was 447,000. Those taking Graduate Management Admission Test [GMAT] was 
  245,000. Those taking the Law School Admission Test [LSAT] was 148,000, the 
  highest in a decade. The Medical College Admission Test [MCAT] numbers also 
  increased. The headline suggested that students are waiting out the tough 
  times, by continuing their education. The increases the opportunity to ply 
  students with the Gospel on campuses.</span></font></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">A member of <u>Campus 
  Bible Fellowship</u> comments, &quot;One of North America's greatest mission fields 
  today is the college and university campus. But, the local church, which 
  should provide leadership, doctrinal stability, and continuity is conspicuous 
  by its absence.&quot;</span></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">Because the church is 
  not normally near the college campus, it has responded by commissioning 
  numerous campus ministries to minister in its behalf. On the other hand, many 
  of the non-Christian religions establish their mosques or temples very near 
  the campuses.</span></p>
  <h3><font color="#008080">1.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
  </span>INTER-VARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP</font></h3>
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">Christian Fellowship, 
  founded in 1941 in the United States and maintaining work on 565 campuses 
  [�03] with 750 campus chapters, representing 35,000 students and servicing 613 
  staff members, notes that ministry on the college campus is essential because 
  college years are often years of crisis. Tragically, many are not able to cope 
  with the stress of life. The suicide rate continues to increase for those 
  between the ages of twenty and twenty-four and is now the leading killer of 
  collegians. </span></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">Inter-Varsity leaders on 
  various campuses are under unrelenting pressure to change their charter, to 
  allow anyone to hold a leadership position, regardless of their race, gender 
  or religious belief. Anyone can be a member, but leaders must be Christian. 
  Thus far, they have been able to maintain their standard.</span></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">
  <img border="0" src="images/26image007.gif" width="200" height="149" align="left" hspace="2" vspace="2">Inter-Varsity ministries 
  include small <u>group Bible studies</u>, daily prayer meetings, and <u>
  weekend retreats</u> and over twenty conferences where international students 
  can engage in serious conversation about Jesus Christ. The Inter Varsity Press 
  publishes materials designed to challenge the collegian about the Christian 
  life. In fact, Welcome to America by Lawson Lou seeks to not only help 
  international students feel at home, but also encourages concerned Christians 
  to open their homes, provide hospitality and model the Christian life and 
  love, to help future international leaders find Christ as Savior. On Christian 
  campuses IVCF sponsors <u>Student Foreign Missions Fellowships</u> (SFMF) to 
  encourage prayer for foreign missions and to challenge students to consider 
  foreign missionary service. It is to be hoped that the SFMF would drop the 
  foreign emphasis and recognize that home and world missions are one and 
  indivisible.</span></p>
   
  <p ><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt ">Perhaps the best-known 
  IVCF-sponsored event, is the triennial <u>Urbana</u> Student Missionary 
  Conference, held on the campus of the University of Illinois. In December 
  2003, 20,000 collegians gathered during the Christmas break, as they have 
  since 1946, to learn about world mission opportunities and experience a few 
  days together in Christian fellowship. Thirty-nine percent were Hispanic and 
  people of color and 26% were Asians. There are numerous follow-up workshops 
  held around the country called <u>&quot;Urbana Onward.&quot;</u> Inter-Varsity also 
  sponsors a <u>Nurses Christian Fellowship</u> and <u>Christian Faculty 
  Fellowship</u> on secular campuses. Each year various projects are proposed to 
  involve students and faculty in opportunities for witness to non-Christian 
  colleagues. To date, 213,000 have attended.</span></p>
	<p ><font size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial">Urbana has been meeting 
	for 60 years. In 06 Urbana is to be held 
	in Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, MO, where 25,000 are expected to attend.</span></font></p>
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