I have been in St. Louis this week in meetings for Single Adult Ministry in the UPCI. I am very excited about all that God is doing with SAM in our great organization. We have some great things coming in the future. One is a new website, a single's e-mail devotional, a new young adult ministry, some blogs, as well as other things! It is an exciting time for SAM!! As soon as some of these things are up and running, I will let you know.
Single Adults can cover a wide age span as well as various lifestyles. Their ages may vary from 18 to over 80 years of age. Every group represents different needs, interests, and physical abilities. Young adults in their 20’s and 30’s as well as middle-aged or older single adults. There are the never-married, the widowed, or the divorced and many of them are single parents. They make up nearly 45% of the population in North America! What a harvest field! Nearly 70% of all new converts in any denomination are single.
There is a need for SAM in every local church, no matter the size of the congregation. That is our goal in working with every District Sunday School director and their District Single's director to make Pastors aware of this great need.
In order for us to see revival like never before:
· We must recognize this great unmarried mission field, for it’s harvest white. “I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.” John 4:35 – NIV
· We must reach out to this generation and reap what has been sown. "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. 38 Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field." Matthew 9:37-38 – NIV
· We must relate to all single adults. “. . .Yes, whatever a person is like, I try to find common ground with him so that he will let me tell him about Christ and let Christ save him” 1 Corinthians 9:22 – TLB
Single adults are a vast growing mighty force of the church and are instrumental in God’s purpose for the church. A revival growing church believes that single adults are crucial players in today’s revival. They realize that the talents and abilities of today’s single adults are too valuable to ignore. This vast growing group can become a mighty force in your church. They are instrumental in God’s purpose for the church. What better example to follow than the greatest single adult to ever live – JESUS CHRIST!
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AMEN, sister, preach it!!! LOL Did you get my list I emailed you? Guess what, I am going on the London/Paris trip, after all. Yippee...can't wait. All of the SAM trips have been a BLAST!! Keep me informed of the "new happenings".
Fun, fun, fun. Glad it is you putting this trip together instead of Brian. LOL Our YOM days are finally over! They were all great, but so much work and so exhausting.
Although you have been involved in the single ministry for some time, Christian leaders are not often commended for their actions. We just take them for granted. May I say, thank you for your burden to this growing ministry. It is a blessing to know that someone cares for the singles among us.
Thank You for everything you do for SAM. For me, as a single adult I am so thankful for someone who cares enough to put things and trips together for us to be able to meet other singles. I have LOVED every SAM trip I've been on!!! You are the best!! Love you!
Debbie, your enthusiasm is infectious. This ministry sounds timely and urgently needed.
God bless you and your efforts here.
Shirley Buxton
www.shirleybuxton.wordpress.com
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