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ERIC Number: ED144668
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The Community Colleges: Opportunities for the Church to Create New Staffing Patterns for Ministry in Higher Education. Perspectives on the Church and the Community College, Paper No. 12.
Rutledge, Mark
Changes in the churches and in higher education today are leading to new kinds of roles in campus ministry for laypersons and professional staff. Traditionally, the campus minister has been a direct service provider, with parish clergy and laypersons functioning in secondary back-up roles. These traditional roles are currently being challenged by several changing trends. One is a growing recognition that campus ministry can and perhaps should be a ministry demanding the involvement of the whole church. A second is the emergence of new models as churches search for ways to relate to community colleges, which are different in some critical ways from universities. A third is the knowledge that there are not enough full-time professional campus ministers to go around in this time of stringent finances and changing priorities. This report of a recent conference explores some implications of these changes and trends. It includes descriptions of six experiments in using professional staff as "enablers" rather than providers of ministry at community colleges. It is useful to all those concerned about the church's mission in higher education. (Author/DC)
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Authoring Institution: United Ministries in Higher Education, Portland, OR.
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