BSU at GSU Ministry Teams Page

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Bible Studies

This Ministry Team is responsible for recommending time, content, and leaders for Bible Studies within the BSU programming. This includes lunch programing, 10:00 programming, reading the Bible through in a year activities, and special Bible study retreats or classes, etc. This Ministry Team is responsible for establishing, recommending materials, and carrying out discipleship development within the BSU. This includes such things as Prayer Life classes, Experiencing God etc. This Ministry Team would keep the students abreast of discipleship training opportunities in the Greater Atlanta Area. Many of these are sponsored by local churches and local associations. The team helps in the planning and promotion of Koinonia, a weekly time of Bible study and fellowship held at night. The team enlists a Bible study leader or leaders for Koinonia

Building and Grounds

This Ministry Team is responsible for maintenance of BSU Center inside and outside. Ministry Team members oversee changing of light bulbs, cleanliness of Center, and neatness of grounds outside of Center.

Community Service

This Ministry Team's periodic tasks usually involve two or three people who look for and recommend to the BSU specific one time projects to aid school or community. The primary job is to act as the liaison between the point of need and students who can respond to that need on a one time basis.

This group also responds to requests for help from churches. They make up teams to provide for baby sitting help and various kinds of service projects in which churches desire students to participate. Work on this Ministry Team is very erratic since it requires a response to the requests from churches rather than something that the Ministry Team initiates primarily itself.

This Ministry Team primarily works fall quarter with a Christmas party for the Clark Howell Techwood children. Its primary work is fall quarter with the collection of toys and various gifts to be provided to the children in poverty situations at Clark/Howell Techwood. Its work culminates in a Christmas party after exams are over in fall quarter. There is not any work on this project for practical purposes during winter, spring, or summer quarters.

Computer Maximization

This ministry team initially is responsible for the development and maintenance of the BSU web. site. It is envisioned as eventually taking responsibility for developing new programming and maintenance of all BSU computer equipment and peripherals. It will recommend expansions and stewardship of hardware and software.

The Courier

The Courier Ministry Team is responsible for the total production of the weekly BSU newspaper, the Courier. This group needs typists, people who are able to handle layout, those who will serve as reporters as well as a managing editor, and those who will help in actually producing the paper on the copier, folding then preparing for mailing.

Evagelism

This Ministry Team is responsible for encouraging the development of various approaches of winning the lost to Christ. They are responsible for the development of training opportunities for our students as well as the encouragement of students to respond to the needs for evangelization of their fellow students. This Ministry Team would also recommend to the BSU various approaches and materials to be used during the year in support of evangelistic efforts. Its focus is the campus--the students, faculty, and staff of GSU. Evangelism outside the campus is more the responsibility of the impact teams.

Follow-up

BSU members are grouped as follows...Single Males, Single Females, Married and International, Advanced Placement students (students who are Block classes internships, etc.). The Ministry Team members of each group contact group members in the following way...

This Ministry Team calls ones who visit the BSU to welcome them and to note their interests. The Ministry Team members also call BSU members who have not been in the BSU Center in recent days. The Ministry Team can recommend BSUers to serve on committees based on interest and conversations had with BSUers. This Ministry Team can do special projects to make BSUers feel affirmed, such as sending birthday cards, congratulation cards, etc. This Ministry Team notifies staff members if a BSUer has experienced a crisis, such as a death of loved one, loss of job etc. This team can also plan times of get togethers for group members.

General Enlistment

This Ministry Team is responsible for presenting and implementing ideas for enlisting students in the BSU.

Impact

This Ministry Team is responsible for establishing and implementing revival and/or ministry teams that would be available to churches and other groups in the general area. It is made of people who want to participate through music, drama, and speaking. This includes the development of an ensemble, possible quartets, identification of instrumentalists who might be able to bring special music at various churches, drama presentations and skits.

The Ministry Team itself is primarily a recruitment and coordination Ministry Team. The intention is to not only provide service to the church but opportunities for growth for those students who feel particularly called into some type of full or part time Christian ministry.

International

The International Programs ministry team plans programs and activities for International students at Georgia State. Such programs and activities can be dinners, picnics, hiking, sports activities, focus weeks where countries are spotlighted, selection of country's flags to fly over the BSU Center, etc. This team encourages Internationals to participate in BSU events and offers friendship to them.

Living Your Faith

This ministry team addresses ethical and evangelical issues that challenge our faith. Such ethical issues as abortion, sexuality, human rights, etc. may be addressed. The team encourages students to share their Christian faith with others through lifestyle evangelism and/or direct evangelism. Membership on this Ministry Team would normally not take more than one half hour per week except in the time of specific projects that the Ministry Team itself plans. This Ministry Team would also recommend to the BSU various approaches and materials to be used during the year in support of evangelistic efforts. Its focus is the campus, thus the students, faculty, and staff of GSU. Evangelism outside the campus is the responsibility more of the Impact teams.

Lunch

This Ministry Team is responsible for all planning of lunch programs for the BSU. All requests for speakers and other programming at lunch programs should go through this Ministry Team. This Ministry Team works best when it uses a large block of time prior to the beginning of a quarter to plan out the programming for most of the quarter in a single session or two. Its members then make the appropriate contacts and oversee the operation of the programs part of the luncheon seminars.

Missions Educaction

This Ministry Team is responsible for missions displays, the recruitment of students to serve as BSU Summer Missionaries and for students to serve in various other missions positions. This is, as the name implies, an education Ministry Team not a fund raising Ministry Team. The objective of the members should be to call out those that God would use in various special missions approaches and to encourage every student to consider the possibility of a call to full time mission work. Work on this Ministry Team would normally not take more than 30 minutes per week. The Home Mission Board and Foreign Mission Board have curriculum which can be used as a way of educating students about missions in BSU. Both agencies have video updates distributed each month.

Prayer

This Ministry Team provides for prayer support and programming within the BSU. A prime task is the Monday morning prayer meeting at 10:00, but this Ministry Team's work is not limited to this. This Ministry Team should find creative ways of encouraging prayer partners, a prayer chain and other forms of prayer support for BSU, church, and national needs.

The prayer chain can also be in the form of a phone chain system which contacts all members of the BSU in a relatively short time with any kind of emergency prayer concerns. The initial set up of the phone chain is the more difficult part. The Ministry Team probably should have about 5 people on it who would be the primary catalysts in the chain and from there on it would expand.

Publicity

This Ministry Team has responsibility for production of all publicity for the BSU. This includes posters to be on campus and in the BSU, flyers, materials for closed circuit TV, etc. Persons working with this Ministry Team should be willing to develop some skills in connection with computer work and in composition and layout.

This Ministry Team is also responsible for the production of pamphlets and leaflets about various events and programs of BSU. These pamphlets would be designed for use on campus and in churches.

This Ministry Team is responsible for printing the Courier, Reflections, brochures, posters and any other publicity materials.

Recreation

This Ministry Team is responsible for the involvement of the BSU in all Intramural Activities for males and females and for the involvement of the BSU in state-wide recreational or athletic activities. This Ministry Team frequently will work along with the summer missions Ministry Team in planning some of the fund raisers that will involve recreational activities. Other than the state wide meeting this Ministry Team is responsible primarily for ongoing activities such as pool and ping pong. This Ministry Team would set up the annual tournaments related to any recreational activities.

This Ministry Team is also responsible for providing activities related to commercial outlets in the Greater Atlanta area. The intention is to provide for group activities by BSU members at such things as attendance at Hawks games, going bowling together, and other such group activities that do not necessarily occur at the BSU but provide for integration of new members into social activities and life of the BSU.

Scrapbook

This Ministry Team is responsible for producing a scrapbook for the BSU. This book should include pictures of BSUers and BSU events that happened during the school year. This particular group needs people who are skilled in graphic arts and photography.

Socials

This Ministry Team is responsible for planning all formal social activities within and for the BSU at GSU. This includes, but is not limited to, parties, banquets, etc. Each of these activities is seen as a one time event though they should be coordinated across the whole quarter.

Special Events

This Ministry Team plans and promotes special BSU events, such as BSU Fall Convention, BSU Spring Conference, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Weekend event.

Summer Missions

This Ministry Team has the responsibility for leading the BSU in raising the funds necessary to support our goal for BSU Summer Missions. The Ministry Team is expected to start its work in fall quarter and continue through all four quarters. A detailed manual for Projects is provided. This Ministry Team sets a goal for the year and plans events to be done each quarter to raise money. This does not preclude later adding other additives. The amount of time required varies radically with the projects that are undertaken.

Worship

This devotional/worship experience is primarily led by students of the BSU. This Ministry Team plans for and executes the twice a month programs; In the past the programs have been held at 10:05-10:35 A.M. on Tuesday of one week and Wednesday of the next week. The members of the Ministry Team help in getting BSUers to bring music, brief testimonies, and a short devotional talk. Other options are open, given the creativity of the Ministry Team.

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