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    A Premarital Family Life Enrichment Curriculum for Adventist Youth Educators in Kasama Central, Lualuo and New Town Churches of Kasama West Mission District, Zambia
    (Adventist University of Africa, 2016-09-01) Sichilima, Willard
    A problem and concern within the Seventh-day Adventist Church is that many young people are getting married without having sufficient knowledge about marriage before they get married. This lack of information may lead to problems later in the marriage. Kasama Central, New Town, and Lualuo Churches do not have an intensive preventive premarital family life program, no qualified personnel and inadequate family life materials dedicated to helping young people through the personnel who would be trained to handle issues of marriage. Therefore, there is need to develop a premarital family life curriculum and enrichment seminars for Adventist youths in these targeted churches. The purpose of the dissertation was to develop, then implement and evaluate family enrichment seminar materials and training of premarital Family Life Educators to help youths benefit from preventive premarital family life education. The method used was the closed questionnaire. The approach used was qualitative so that the information helped in achieving workable solutions and helped the researcher to understand the problem from the point of view of the people who responded to the questionnaire. The researcher used the logframe matrix to map out the study aim, goal and objective that verify the key assumptions of the premarital family life education activities. Then the Gantt chart was used to map out the project over time and the project implementation. The results and findings of the research revealed that though there is normalcy in Kasama Central, New Town and Lualuo Church with regard to marriage but the influence of modernity and postmodernity is influencing marriages negatively. Thus, the conclusion show that if there is an emphasis on the family life education, some young people would be reclaimed so that they have better marriages and families other than following the evasion that is not according to God’s will. The programs could act as preventive measures towards the negative vices that affect young people. Therefore, if the unique work of premarital family life education which deals with prevention therapy would be implemented it could reduce the crucible that the youths would get involved if taught before they enter into marriage. It would help those who want to marry to understand the strength and weakness found in each partner. The recommendation is that there be an intense training of trainers who can help train the personnel who, in turn, would train others so that young people can be prepared to meet the challenges found in marriage. Another recommendation is to also provide materials that can be used by marriage educators.
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    Increasing and Sustaining Youth Participation in Programs for Effective Adventist Youth Ministry in the Abuakwa District of Kumasi, Ghana
    (Adventist University of Africa, 2016-06) Owusu-Ansah, Dan Kwaku
    Youth participation involves the youth taking part or being involved in all programs and activities that concern and involve them. The Adventist Youth Ministry is the department of the church which works with, for and by the youth with the primary focus of the salvation of the youth through Jesus Christ and preparing them in various ways for service. The youth constitute the majority of the church and the community. Therefore, they can have significant roles to play both in the church and community as indicated by the biblical, theological and theoretical evidence. A lot of concerns have been raised about the decline and apathy among the contemporary youth in the participation of church activities and programs in this era of post-modernism. This is affecting the moral and spiritual lives of the youth as well as the church as a whole. A Library research and other forms of research were used to probe into the participation of the youth in a church program that included both qualitative and quantitative approaches, including key informants interview, focus group discussions, and administering of questionnaires and their analyses. In the four churches of the Abuakwa District of the Seventh–day Adventists, namely, Abuakwa, Maakro, Sepaase, and Tanoso, it was found that though the youth participate in church activities, from the adult and the aged there was a decline. All these necessitated the urgent need of effective intervention for improvement. A program, with the purpose of increasing and sustaining youth participation for effective Adventist Youth Ministry, was consequently developed and implemented in these four churches of the district, to ameliorate or alleviate the problem. The benefit of the program was seen when the spiritual life and the number of the youth who involved themselves in church and youth programs increased in all four churches in the Abuakwa District. A district youth evangelistic team, ADAYOM, of 25 youths was also formed. The adults and church leadership understood and embraced the need for maximum youth participation in all church activities including leadership. In conclusion, the implementation of the intervention brought improvement in the involvement of the youth in church activities.
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    Training Adventist Youth in Empowerment Skills to Reduce Unemployment and Enhance Mission in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
    (Adventist University of Africa, 2016-06) Enang, Nkeruwem John
    The Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church exists for mission—communicating the “everlasting gospel” of Revelation 14:6-12 as mandated by Christ (Matt 28:19, 20) to the world. The young people with their youthful energies and zeal, who should be at the forefront of this mission enterprise, are disabled by the unemployment problem which denies them the opportunity of living up to their God-given potentials. Though a global problem, the African context with growing youth population and reducing job opportunities may be worse hit by this debilitating problem, which is getting worse with time. Because of the multifaceted nature of the problem, this dissertation designed and implemented a training model—a synergy of mission and livelihood skills that would empower the youth and at the same time unleash their potentials for involvement in the mission of the church. This research used the mixed methodology: qualitative and quantitative. Part of the study of the SDA Church in Cote d’Ivoire and the phenomenon of youth unemployment in Cocody-Philadelphia SDA Church were done qualitatively while the quantitative approach was used for the pre and post-training surveys. The study revealed that the problem of youth unemployment that was regarded as socioeconomic had significant theological and missiological implications. Therefore, the SDA Church should be involved in tackling it to reduce the prevalence among its youth membership. Samples of interventions and models from the different economic strata of the globe were examined; in addition, initiatives by faith-based organizations were studied. The gap which this study discovered was the absence of, or minimal application of the spiritual dimension into these models—which this project seeks to accomplish by adopting a holistic approach. The strategy adopted for this project was the synergy of mission and livelihood skills that may reduce youth unemployment in the SDA Churches in Abidjan and at the same time unleash their potentials for involvement in mission. Contacts with the focus group showed that they are aware of the problem and wanted something to be done about it. The researcher administered the pre-training survey to determine the prevalence of the problem. The result showed that of a sample group of 34 youth who took the survey, about 74% were unemployed which confirmed the focus group position. The intervention was a Training of Trainers (TOT) program whose participants were selected from the churches at Abidjan based on their academic qualification—a minimum of a high school graduate. The package for the training consists of three major modules: inculcation, livelihood skill, and entrepreneurial skills. After the training, participants were given materials that would enable them replicate the program. At a post-training survey, 86% of trainees indicated the ability to replicate the training with minimal or no assistance. With this capacity building training in place, about twenty persons can train in youth empowerment whereas there was none before the training. The youth director of Cote d’Ivoire Conference would galvanize the efforts of these trainees to train youth in the church at Abidjan and beyond. The more youth unemployment is reduced the more mission is enhanced.