The chaos which reigns today in many Schools, Colleges and even homes, shows only clearly the need for practical guidance in disciplining children and young people. In our society today, good citizens cannot be groomed from many homes where parents have failed and children have good reason not to respect their own parents. Traditionally, Educational Institutions were pious places where the values of order, discipline, responsibility and fellowship were inculcated amongst the youth.
It is necessary that educational administrators should understand the biblical principles for creating respect and responsibility in young people. Patterns of thought are continually changing from one generation to another, educational campuses reflects these changes by giving appropriate leader- ship for the fullest development of the lives of youth at all times.
It is a model project for Campus Ministry the necessity of which has been felt long since and a subject that has been so much neglected. The study presents the necessary principles and guidelines for making youth ministry effective, creative and enjoyable in educational campuses.
This book is divided into two sections. The title section on 'Campus Ministry' is offered as a manual for students, teachers and those interested in youth ministry. The second section deals with six articles on biblical subjects for spiritual benefits of the believing readers. The whole content in its presentation of proposed aims and approaches emphasises the relevance and urgency of re- shaping evangelical education in educational institutions.
M. PANGER LONGCHAR is a well known Educationist in Nagaland and author of several books and articles. He studied his early High School Educa- tion at Clark Memorial High School. Impur. He obtained his Bacherlor's Degree with Hon- ours in Political Science as a topper in Fazl Ali College. He had three Master and three Doc- toral Degree in different area of studies. He is the founder and Principal of Salt Christian College, Dimapur.
The chaos which reigns today in many Schools, colleges and even homes, shows only clearly the need for practical guidance in disciplining children and young people. In our society today, good citizens cannot be groomed from many homes where parents have failed and children have good reason not to respect their own parents. Traditionally, Educational Institutions were pious places where the values of order, discipline, responsibility and fellowship were inculcated amongst the youth.
Nagaland being a Christian state, it is necessary that educational administrators should understand the biblical principles for creating respect and responsibility in young people. Patterns of thought are continually changing from one generation to another, it is necessary that educational Campuses reflects these changes by giving appropriate leadership for the fullest development of the lives of youth at all times.
It is a model project for Campus Ministry the necessity of which has been felt long since and a subject that has been so much neglected. The present study based on "Salt Christian College" as a 'Model' presents the necessary principles and guidelines for making youth ministry effective, creative and enjoyable in educational Campuses.
have much pleasure in writing this Foreword to 'Campus Ministry' by the respected Principal of 'Salt Christian College' one of our esteemed educationists in Nagaland, whose love of the younger generation and the vision of their future destiny have found concrete expression in the Salt Christian College, one of our foremost Institutions of Higher Education in Nagaland, which he founded.
What afflicts the twentieth century of World over is the widening golf between two conceptions of personality development. On the one hand we have the currently fashionable idea, essentially a secular idea, of man as a successfully competitive animal with the minimal cosmetics of social refinement and awareness. Secularism, the most overworked catchword today. And on the other hand are the religious perceptions about the totality of human possibilities and their realization in individuals. In the secular view man is a "resource" for economic development. In the latter he is an end in himself a creature of God whom every individual is responsible.
Much of the confused focii in today's educational thought is a by product of these conflicting aims. One of the larger issues relevant here is the question, whether character and personality can be formed without moral and spiritual centrality. And this centrality undeniably comes from the religious systems to which one belongs, not from those complexes which shape man as a competitive acquisitive and greedy animal with no vision beyond economic success.
We are Christians in Nagaland, and therefore the centres of higher learning must endeavour ceaselessly to observe our Christian spiritual values in personality formation, Dr. M. Panger Longchar has grasped this problem. His book "Campus Ministry" illustrates this concern and his engagement with such a crucial task.
In Nagaland this task is further complicated by the wide generation gap between the youth introduced to modern education, essentially western in character, and the older generation still in a traditional mode of life and thought. This generation gap has to be well mediated to achieve social harmony and stability.
Campus Ministry has serious deliberations on this and related issue of central significance to the growth of Christian consciousness all around. This, as Dr. M. Panger Longchar makes it clear in the main function of Christian Higher Education to help the growth of Christian personality, as God's creation and answerable to Him for man's realization of the inner potentially gifted by god at the time of creation.
With Love... to the Students of 'Salt Christian College', Faculty, Staff, and my Brothers & Sisters in the bonds of 'Great Commission' who share the vision of the completed Mission of the Coming King. It is my great desire that the Educational Institutions introduce and uphold permanent "Campus Ministry', specially in Nagaland, which is an avowed Christian State.
It is needless to write about our present Naga Society as we all know it by our experiences in our daily life. Today our society is in a state of turmoil, killings, violence wanton corruptions, bribery everywhere. Youth reflect the society they live in. They are the product of the various systems at play in the society: Educational, Political, Economic, Religious, Technological etc. They display the characteristics of the society. The Society, the entire Community of believers, is reflected in the youth. A healthy and exuberant youth is the product of a strong society.
The dissatisfaction, frustration, insecurity, disunity, rebellion that are visible in them are precisely what the Society and the Church are made up of. Thousands of our Naga Youth are being destroyed physically, mentally, and spiritually due to social disorder, they seek final experience in deadly drugs, drinks and find refuge in antisocial activities.
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