Introduction, Ministry Focus and Challenges
Getting Started
Support
Translation
Three-Fold Focus Leadership
Challenges for Ministry
Case Study: A Slavik Church
Beginning
Support
Outgrowth
Leadership
Theological Considerations Worship Service
Case Study: An Hispanic Church
Beginning
Growth/Leadership
Factors for Growth Confronting Problems
Cultural Differences
Programs/Structure
Case Study: A Vietnamese Church
Getting Started
Growth Pattern
Leadership
Addressing Problems Worship Service
Summary of Observations Regarding Ethnic Ministry
Culture Comparisons
Common Ministry Needs
Sources
About the Author
Nancy Kruger serves as Minister of Outreach at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Macomb, Michigan.
Born and raised in the Detroit area, she is a graduate of Lutheran Bible Institute, Seattle, Washington with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Cross Cultural Ministry, and an emphasis in Urban Ministry. Nancy has served as a short-term missionary in Amsterdam, Holland (1987), Bacolod City, Negros/Philippines (1989), Tanzania, Africa (1991), and a longer term assignment in Chiclayo, Peru from 1994-95. In 1996, she was certified through the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod as a Church Planter, and served from 1996-98 as Mission Developer/Church Planter in Southfield, Michigan for New Life Christian Fellowship-LCMS. Nancy has been involved in evangelism, and outreach activities for many years, and feels especially called to reach out to people who are either unchurched or do not have a church background.
