Jane Thayer
Jane Thayer is associate professor emerita of Religious Education, Andrews University Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, Berrien Springs, Michigan, United States.
Pastors' perspectives on assimilating new members Part 2 - Discipling strategies
Because making disciples should lie at the heart of the mission of each church, everything a congregation does for new members should reach toward that goal.
Pastors' perspectives on assimilating new members - Part 1
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America has established a goal of 100,000 baptisms by the end of 2010. Other parts of the world also have goals for their territories. That goal raises the urgent question: are the local Adventist churches prepared to nurture and assimilate these new members?