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Due to the SRO, public demonstrations between the liberal and conservative parties have escalated.\r\n\r\n        The purpose of this study is to explore how Korean youth ministry pastors preach evangelically to care for teen congregants and their schools amid cultural pressure from the Student Rights Ordinance. This study examines Korean pastors’ sermons given to those directly affected by the ordinance. Analyzing the sermons can help Korean pastors navigate how to care for their congregants and school evangelization amid the cultural pressure of the ordinance.\r\n\r\n        This study utilized a qualitative design using semi-structured interviews with six Korean pastors who served their congregations as part-time or full-time workers. The literature review and analysis of the six interviews focused on three key areas for sustaining a preaching ministry: the six pastors’ understandings of the Student Rights Ordinance, their preaching goals and tasks to care for the teen congregants, and sermons that share the gospel in the schools that the ordinance affects.\r\n\r\n        This study concluded that there are three necessary preaching components to care for the teen congregants and their schools in the cultural pressure of the Student Rights Ordinance: building Christian identity, obedience based on the Bible, and Christian inclusiveness of others. This study explored the pastors’ perspectives and found that they welcomed the spirit of human dignity that the ordinance describes. However, they were concerned by tendencies to support the self-absorbed exercise of rights and sexual immoralities. Although each of the pastors used different preaching styles, fitting their personal values and beliefs, all of them sought faithful transformation and obedience to God’s Word. 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Therefore, the purpose of this study was to understand how Navy chaplains prepare and lead combatants for amphibious warfare using the experiences and insights of Navy chaplains to identify the principles, execution, challenges and assessment of ministry in amphibious warfare.  \r\n\r\nThe findings of this study were first that the core competencies of the Navy Chaplain Corps provided a basic model of ministry. In executing their ministry to combatants three common principles were revealed: presence, reconciliation and worship. Second, Navy chaplains possessed clear understanding of the military mission enabling them to deliver care in austere circumstances. Often this was at their own expense of spiritual, mental and physical health. Finally, Navy chaplains possessed a subjective view of leadership but each possessed a strong personal conviction to exercise ethical and moral leadership within their commands. \r\n\r\nThis study provided three primary conclusions about preparing and leading combatants in amphibious warfare. First, chaplains should be oriented to the ministry models exercised by Navy chaplains in the PAC theatre of WWII. Second, further in-depth training based on the ministry models of the PAC theatre should be implemented for deploying chaplains. Third, chaplains should be adequately equipped to lead and minister in an environment inclusive of protracted trauma and death. Equipping chaplains for this environment should occur both on the personal, professional and organizational levels. 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The purpose of this study is to explore how grown children of lead pastors describe parenting practices they found helpful during their teenage years. \r\n\r\nThe literature review focused on four areas: The teaching of the Shema and Deuteronomy 6, systems theory as it relates to pastoral ministry, resilience issues for pastors with children, and teaching adolescents resilience.\r\n\r\nThis study used a qualitative design that implemented semi-structured interviews with seven clergy children between the ages of 18-25 who had a positive experience within the church and with their parents. These research questions used were (1) What parenting practices concerning involvement in the church do grown children of lead pastors describe as helpful during their teenage years? (2) What hospitality practices do they describe as helpful during their teenage years? (3) What approaches to the ministry do they describe as helpful during their teenage years? 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