Examples of Christian Ministry Projects

Ross Woods, 2022
Mostly adapted from Boyce Digital Repository at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary https://repository.sbts.edu/ and then compared to https://spark.bethel.edu/doctor-ministry-theses/

Most of these projects involve creating a new training program, running it, and then evaluating it.

1. Missions and evangelism
1. Create, run and evaluate training for a church planting team
1. starting from scratch in evangelism.
2. starting by gatherig existing contacts.
2. Create, run and evaluate training for an evangelistic team.
3. Start a pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, or tutoring service as pre-evangelism
4. Start a new post as a church plant
5. Develop personal evangelists
6. Develop a small group ministry
2. Training church leaders
1. Train a network of pastors in self-care
2. Create and teach a college subject
3. Train qualified pastoral candidates for ordination to pastoral ministry
4. Equip members of a Christian ministry to mentor
5. Develop a new program to train chaplains
6. Develop a strategy for leadership development
7. Prepare an elder training plan for those aspiring to the office of elder
8. Equip pastors to preach expository sermons
9. Develop a marriage mentoring training program
10. Develop an internship model for pastors in African-American churches
11. Train decisive leaders: a paradigm for overcoming paralysis in organizations
12. Equip pastors and ministry leaders to practice church discipline
13. Assess and develop essential leadership and management competencies of the leadership group
14. Transition from unaccredted training to accredited training
3. Training church members
1. Establish lay training (with administrative support) in an isolated region.
2. Equip members of a church to counsel sexual abuse survivors
3. Increase the confidence of small group leaders in Bible teaching
4. Use personal and corporate spiritual disciplines to foster emotional health
5. Prepare church members to be Christian apologists
6. Equip members to make disciples through one-on-one Bible reading
7. Equipping parents to understand and counsel children from traumatic backgrounds
8. Empower college students to pursue freedom from pornography
9. Training married men to exercise biblical headship in their homes
10. Equip young adult small group leadership and discipleship
11. Equip parents to disciple their children
12. Equip families to implement family worship in their homes.
13. Develop a Christian approach to domestic abuse
14. Develop a Christian approach to teenage pregnancy
15. Equip church members to understand and practice biblical sanctification
16. Train and equip parents of youth
17. Resource members to minister to bereaved parents
4. Church management
1. Develop a theological framework for pastoral succession
2. Include fully individuals with special needs as co-laborers in the worship ministry of churches.
3. Evaluate a complex program
5. Worship
1. Develop a biblical theology of instrumental worship
2. Equip college students with a biblical theology of corporate worship
3. Refine corporate worship according to Scripture
6. Pastoral care
1. Pastoral care of families of children ages 5-11
2. Leading a church biblical to intercultural unity
3. Clinical pastoral education
4. Create a spiritual formation model
7. Christian education
1. Move middle school students toward biblical literacy
2. Authentic spiritual formation in the Christian school classroom
3. Equipping the children’s ministry teachers
4. Improve age-appropriateness of children’s program
5. Transition a children’s program to “whole family” ministry
6. Train teachers in behaviour management and motivation
7. Skills in story-telling
8. Recovery from war or persecution
1. Learning how to forgive: An educational program to use among war victims
2. Design a curriculum for teaching hermeneutics to exiled Christian leaders