While Princeton Seminary is accustomed to training biblical
scholars, missionaries, and ministers to become effective translators
of Scripture, seldom has it prepared students to render Ecclesiastes 3
quite like this:
He says to me, "Your job ain’t doin’ nothin’ for you.
While you slavin’ and savin’ for a legit home,
Anybody anytime could bust a cap in your dome....
For Love of a City's Kids
By Barbara A. Chaapel
"All the great youth ministries shouldn’t be in the
suburbs," says Bruce Main, a PTS D.Min. student and executive
director of UrbanPromise in Camden, New Jersey. He has put his
ministry where his mouth is!
In 1988, Main left his studies at Fuller Seminary in California to
respond to a challenge from Tony Campolo, well-known evangelical
minister and author, to come east to begin a program for urban kids in
New Jersey’s poorest city.
become effective translators
of Scripture, seldom has it prepared students to render Ecclesiastes 3
quite like this:
"All the great youth ministries shouldn’t be in the
suburbs," says Bruce Main, a PTS D.Min. student and executive
director of