Bruce Johnston
Bruce Johnston is director of Church Growth for the North Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
Articles by Bruce Johnston
Evangelism at Emmanuel Missionary College
December 1959
At EMC we are endeavoring to take the students out into the field to supplement class instruction with participation in practical soul-winning activities. The enthusiastic response to this plan is almost overwhelming. The ministerial students…
"It Is Written" and the College Campus
January 1964
Our contact with It Is Written has proved a real blessing to the campus, bringing with it the strong spiritual impact that is the inevitable result of a successful student soul-winning endeavor.
We first touched It Is -Written…
Southern Missionary College Goes All Out for Evangelism
March 1965
Field schools in evangelism are training programs conducted by members of the religion department in conjunction with a series of public evangelistic meetings. They are normally four to five weeks in length. Instruction…
An Evangelistic Field School at Emmanuel Missionary College
July 1961
IT WAS a venture of faith to conduct an evangelistic field school in South Bend, Indiana—the very heart of Roman Catholic intellectualism. The airatorium (a nylon and vinyl air structure recently purchased by Andrews University for an evangelistic…
Target 80--The Bold Adventure (Part 2)
October 1974
AT THE annual Far Eastern Division council in Singapore in November, 1972, the following action was voted, which brought into being the eight-year strategy that has since been named Target 80.
In order to realize the best possible…
Target 80--The Bold Adventure
September 1974
TARGET 80 involves the application of modern management principles to church growth and strategy. It has really captured the imagination of our administrators and departmental leaders throughout the Far Eastern Division. We have already begun…
You can have a growing church!
August 1978
No, you don't have to be a genius. Neither do you have to abandon everything you currently are doing and adopt a revolutionary new method, so relax. What I am talking about can be done with methods already available. In fact, if…