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Student Ministries Program

Because of YBC’s strong commitment to the Christian faith, each student (see page 11 Student Handbook, #2) is required to become actively involved in a local evangelical church. The college desires to see each student become consistent in church attendance, serve in a ministry of a local church, live by faith, and mature as a Christian. This is tracked through the Student Ministries Program. The purpose of this program is to provide opportunities to combine the student’s classroom learning experiences with practical ministry application in the local evangelical church setting and active involvement in a YBC accountability group. This program provides a supervised opportunity for the student:

1.   To become a servant leader

2.   To develop skills in the practice of Christian ministry

3.   To use the student’s service in the local church to solidify what s/he has perceived as the call of God into professional Christian ministry

4.   To help clarify the area of ministry into which the student has been called

 Additional objectives are:

1.   allow participating churches to become training ground for future leaders

2.   offer ministry assistance to a local church

 Program Requirements

1.   Students must actively serve in a local evangelical church under the supervision of an approved church ministry coach

2.   Church ministry must be a minimum of one hour per week not including preparation time.

3.   Students must report weekly through the system established by the College for accountability

4.   Evaluation of student’s ministry will be completed once a semester with church ministry coach

5.   Students will participate weekly in a YBC accountability group for encouragement and to share ministry experience from their local church.

6.   If a student changes churches s/he must be active in new church within (4) weeks of the change.

7.   New students may take up to one semester to identify a local church and place of ministry. During this time the student will meet weekly with the Student Ministries Program Director to evaluate progress.

Students who are not committed to a church and a ministry within the required time frame will be placed under the supervision of the Student Ministries Program Director for a period of two weeks. During this time the director will assign a four page paper and work with the student to find a place to serve. Further failure to acquire a ministry by the end of the two weeks will result in suspension (see page 44 of the Student Handbook).