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What is this ministry about? |
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The Pioneers for the Next Generation Ministry is a
ministry aimed at providing training opportunities for college and career
professional age group Christians. This ministry provides learning
opportunities, serving opportunities, and teaching opportunities by inviting
willing participants from the local churches in the SWCBA region to plan and
implement each year's conference event. Guided by pastors within the
SWCBA with backgrounds in ministry building and theological expertise, all
participants who plans each year's event gains valuable knowledge to take
with them to serve in their own church or church community. |
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Is the Pioneers Conference a revival meeting?
Evangelical Meeting? |
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Neither. The Pioneers Conference is neither revival
nor evangelical. The purpose of the conference is to provide learning
and serving opportunities to Christians such that each participant may take
what they learn from the conference back to their own church, and help their
church lead or participate in any revival or evangelical programs.
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Will the messages be translated? and what
language will it be translated to / from? |
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Only the keynote message will be translated. For
2009, the keynote message will be presented in Mandarin Chinese, and translated into
English. Cantonese translation over headsets will be available if
necessary. |
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The workshop topics will also be translated if necessary
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Who plans the programs for the conference? |
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Each year's conference programs and events are planned
and implemented entirely by the volunteers from the local churches in the
SWCBA region. Pastors serve primarily as advisors. All the
volunteers are in the age group targeted by this conference (college
students / young career professionals). These volunteers from
different regions work together to form each year's conference coworkers
committee. |
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Who are your target participants? |
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The conference and ministry targets college students and
career professional young adults who have a willingness in their heart to
serve, but seeks encouragement, training, opportunities, and/or spiritual
guidance to satisfy their willingness.
The programs in the conference are designed to help
anyone looking to learn certain ministry skills (Personal Evangelism, Music
Evangelism, etc..), or to learn to translate the skills they have to support
their church or programs that glorifies God's kingdom. The programs
also encourage Christians with gifted skills to share their experience; such
that others may be encouraged and serve more willingly.
Any Christian who seeks to serve God, seeks to
understand His calling, and/or seeks to dedicate himself / herself to God,
but needs help are encouraged to participate in this ministry;
starting with participation in the conference. |
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Why do you have your conference from Sunday ~ Tuesday
instead of Friday ~ Sunday? |
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Since our ministry is intended to support our local
church, we wanted to work with a schedule that is most convenient for our
local churches. Most churches have prayer meetings on Wednesdays,
fellowship programs on Fridays, and Sunday service preparation tasks on
Saturdays. Starting Sunday evening, and concluding by noon on
Wednesday allows our churches to participate in the event without having to
modify their program schedules. |
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Is your ministry only for Baptist Church members? or
can any Christian participate? |
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This ministry is sponsored by the Southwest Chinese
Baptist Association, but participation is NOT limited to Baptist churches. Any Christian who have a willingness to to serve, to
learn, or to teach (share their knowledge with others) are welcome to
participate / volunteer. |
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What is the difference between the conference and the
ministry? |
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The "ministry" is where volunteers participate to learn or share the
'behind-the-scenes' work involved in planning and implementing a Christian
event. Through the planning process, volunteers learn about working
and sharing each other's knowledge, faith, and any /all issues to consider
towards building a program for His purpose.
The "conference" is the event planned and implemented by the volunteers.
During the conference, participants may also volunteer to learn and serve in
certain event specific programs (small group leaders, activity coordinators,
etc..) |
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How do I volunteer? |
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To volunteer as a helper or a small group leader during
the conference, or to find out more about volunteering opportunities for
this ministry, please submit a request through our
contacts page; or email us
at pioneers@swcba.org. |
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What can I do to help? |
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We would appreciate your prayers that through this
ministry, more people will be more willing to answer His calling, and to
serve in their respective churches more willingly in order to further
glorify HIS Name. We would also appreciate your
help in encouraging any college / career professionals whom you may know who
are seeking for opportunities to learn or share certain skills. If you
know anyone who fits this profile, please encourage them to join us at the
conference. If you like more information, please contact us at
pioneers@swcba.org. |
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Do you have Children's programs? |
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Depending on the number of children (ages 5 ~ 12), if enough families
registers before the first week of May, and have indicated that there will
be children, we will then invite the local chapter of Child Evangelism
Fellowship (CEF) to come and assist in children's programs |
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Do you have motel rooms? or will everyone stay in
dormitories or lodges? |
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We normally reserve as many motel rooms as the camp have
available for our speakers, families, and elder member participants.
If you would rather stay in a motel room, please request known as soon as
possible. We will accommodate as long as there are motel rooms
available. Please note that there will be additional charges for motel
room requests. |
