The Vision
The Religious Education programs of the Seventh-day Adventist
Theological Seminary would like to make Andrews University a world
center for training leaders in campus ministry. In the North American
Division, we would have an academic/professional
program designed to prepare two groups of campus spiritual leaders: (1)
Adventist college and academy pastors, chaplains, student development
personnel, and Bible/religion/theology teachers? to take a leadership
role in designing spiritual masterplans for their campuses, to disciple
our own Adventist young people, to prepare them to face the
intellectual and social challenges of the world they will live in, and
to teach them how to view their profession or life career as a true
vocation?a calling to glorify God; (2) pastors, youth ministers, and
lay leaders who live in urban centers to mentor and support (as
described above) Adventist students attending nearby universities and
through them to evangelize non-Christians on university campuses. In
the ?world field? we would hold training workshops using video tapes of
the NAD program and contextualize it by having indigenous campus
leaders participate by giving presentations and by leading discussions.
