Ministry Teams

Disability Team (DMT)

The HYACKs Disability Ministry Team is designed to provide the student with an introduction to serving people with disabilities. A biblical foundation provides the student with God’s view of the disabled and enhances Christ-centered attitudes and motivations for fellowship and service. Students are given opportunities to interact with health care professionals and with families affected by disability within the framework of the STARS Disability Ministry at College Church in Wheaton.

Student leaders will be presented with opportunities to provide organizational leadership for Disability Ministry Team service activities and for HYACK-wide ministry events.

Goal: Students will understand that persons with disabilities are an indispensable part of the body of Christ and will help carry out Christ’s mandate to bring persons with disabilities into the body of Christ.

Objectives:

• Students will understand a Biblical foundation of Disability Ministry
• Students will increase their awareness of disabilities that affect how people hear, see, think, feel, walk, or talk.
• Students will identify health care professional disciplines that provide services for the disabled.
• Students will explore opportunities to minister to families affected by disability through STARS programs and activities.

How do I get started? Contact Ginny, administrative assistant for HYACKs.

Missions Prep Program (MPP)

I am interested in missions. What do I do next? The Missionary Preparation Program answers that question. It takes people at any time, at any stage in life, at any age, and gives them a plan–action steps–for what they can do to prepare themselves for cross-cultural ministry.

Why prepare missionaries? People are the means of carrying the good news of Christ to every nation. If we are going to send our best, we are responsible to train them well for the work of world evangelism.

It is our hope that the Missionary Preparation Program will develop God-centered, compassionate, well-prepared and highly motivated people to do the work of missions. It is designed for everyone who wants to grow as a world Christian, but the Missionary Preparation Program is especially for those considering short-term or career missions. Participants work through five dimensions of growth and preparation in the context of a mentoring relationship. Expect to grow in character, knowledge and ministry skills.

How do I get started? Contact Bruce Wilson, Missions Pastor or Abbey Collins, missions administrative assistant.

STudent Teaching and Training TEam (STAT) and Music/TEch Team

Contact Pastor Jon Nielson if you are interested in being involved in either of these teams.