| dc.description.abstract | Keeping new converts and the youths in the church is one of the headaches church
leaders of today are struggling with church growth. Most of these teachers are putting in
their maximum effort in order to curtail this, but have always been at the losing end.
Many scholars of church growth have written extensively on the subject of nurturing,
however, their write ups have yielded very little. The New Tafo District of Seventh-day
Adventists in the Manhyia Constituency is not left out of this predicament, because many
that are baptized in to the church through the numerous forms of evangelism – from
personal evangelism to major campaigns, from Sabbath school units to small groups, the
bane still continues unresolved.
Retrospectively, it would be of much importance, if we can turn the clock and
analyze methods by which our fathers of old did to keep the membership at high
percentages, which has helped kept church growth in Adventism soaring high. One of the methods, which I think may still be effective is nurturing new converts and the youths
through prophetic studies. And this is what all this research wants to achieve.
This research will be achieved through a missiological form, where qualitative and
quantitative methods would be employed to accomplish the purpose of the research.
Interview guides in the form of questionnaires were used through the study group.
Throughout the research, it was found out from the programme design that, if new
converts, the youths, and even the old members would be established and strengthened
firmly in the church through prophetic studies. Looking at the outcome of the programme
design, about 93% of the people converted are still in the churches unswervingly. As the
prophetic school is still in session, I do hope that it would keep on strengthening the new
converts and the youths in good conditions to defend the church in prophetic studies and
also be ready to nurture others as they have been nurtured. | en_US |
