Browsing by Subject "Outreach"
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Breaking the Spell: Investigating Screen-Based Media for Gospel-Driven Outreach
(Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, 2022-02-18)We live in a world of screens. In the past, we used them mainly for entertainment. However, in today’s digital age, we use screens for practical endeavors too. Their efficiency and emotional appeals create ample desire for ... -
The Church in the Community: Showing Love to our Neighbors
(2023)“Love your neighbor as yourself” (Mark 12:31 NIV). What does it look like as Christians live out this command from Jesus? This paper looks at the importance of building relationships and loving our neighbors. Now, more ... -
Commonality and Diversity among Hispanics in the United States and their Implications for Evangelism
(1999)Andrew Schroer encourages evangelism to Hispanics by commenting on the universal truths of the gospel ministry, the commonalities of the Hispanics, and their diversity. The universal truths are that all people are sinners, ... -
The Effect of Multigenerational Families on Worship, Education, and Outreach in Hispanic Ministry
(2014)Hispanic ministry is not a new topic. Our synod recognizes the need to reach a growing demographic in our country, and it has for decades. However, as this demographic has been growing in our country for several decades, ... -
Getting to the Heart of the Matter: Lutheran Worship, Evangelical Worship, and the Evangelical Lutheran Pastor
(2011)Pastor Meier compares worship in the Evangelical camp and the Lutheran camp, “One side, the “contemporary” camp—largely made up of Evangelicals—promotes worship that fits with the popular venues of the day, endorses keeping ... -
Implementing Mentoring into a Congregational Outreach Program
(2015)Mentoring is a tool for growth and development that has become popular in business, academic, and non-profit settings. Currently WELS is also using mentoring in its ministerial education system for the training of called ... -
Intentional Pre-Evangelism: Gaining a Hearing for the Gospel
(2016)There is a problem with pre-evangelism in our Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) churches. The lost unbelievers of this world are not hearing the gospel message. Left on their own they do not know where to find ... -
Into All Creation: Strategic Partnerships for Gospel Outreach in a Highly Mobile World
(2014)Our world is changing. It is smaller and more mobile than ever before. People from every part of the globe are immigrating to Canada and the United States. People come for school, work, and to be with family. Some return ... -
Mission-Minded Congregations are Market-Oriented Congregations: Congregational Marketing to the Glory of God
(2012)Despite the marketing-saturated world in which we live, congregations do not always seem to be market-oriented entities. This thesis defends and encourages the adoption of a market-oriented mindset in a mission-minded ... -
Music as a Tool for Outreach: A Look at Its Historical and Modern Use for Reaching Non-Christians with the Gospel
(2016)The Word of God is all that is needed to convert people from unbelievers to believers. But throughout the history of the Christian Church, music has been used as a tool to aid the proclamation of the Gospel. This thesis ... -
A New Path for an "Old" Church: One WELS Pastor's Experiences with Hispanic Outreach
(2007)Joel Sutton gives a short history of the Hispanic ministry at St. Mark’s in Watertown, Wisconsin. He summarizes Pastor Walther’s life leading up to his call to St. Marks as well as highlighting the numerous people who have ... -
Our World Mission at Home
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Outreach and our Lutheran Elementary Schools and Pre-Schools
(2014)Professor Valleskey addresses three questions in this paper that form the outline of his presentation: 1. Should we use our Lutheran elementary schools and/or pre-schools for outreach? 2. What obstacles might we encounter ... -
Outreach in a Lutheran Grade School Can Succeed by Appropriately Applying Biblical Principles of Church Fellowship
(2013)As an evangelical church body one of our chief goals is to follow the command of the Great Commission. Obviously this has implications for many facets of ministry but that which this paper addresses is how this relates to ... -
Outreach to Muslims: What have we learned? And, Where do we go from here?
(WELS Outreach to Muslims Committee, 2012-11-19)This is a report presented to the WELS Outreach To Muslims committee. -
The Pastor's Role in Building Mission Awareness in a Congregation
(1975-01-24)The 20th century saw astonishing church growth, both in the membership booms of the 50s and 60s and the construction of church buildings. By the end of the century, the trends of growth sharply reversed. In the face of ...