NYSUM is a short-term teaching and training center for Christians with a heart for urban ministry. Through a combination of urban training, onsite practical ministry and actually living in a city neighborhood, we aim to train you to reach people in cities around the world for Christ. Groups come to NYSUM from across the United States, Canada and abroad for selected times of ministry listed below, and other times throughout the year.
The Emphasis Is:
Training: Our “hands on” urban training builds a template for practical application in the city. Our staff training team will lead you in city orientation, ministry site training, prep times, and debrief sessions where you ‘defuse’ your experiences to apply them in your hometown or city.
Teaching: Our seminar style teaching sessions aim to train participants in many aspects of city ministry. This is accomplished through a combination of classroom and chapel training and in city outreaches which includes local ministries and churches.
Touching: NYSUM emphasized meeting people on every level from Main Street to Back Street to Wall Street with a specialized focus on the poor. This involves a broad based selection of ministry sites and locations.
Transforming: NYSUM links Christian workers to urban needs on the streets, in the AIDS Hospital, with the homeless, soup kitchens, shelter outreaches, street meetings, block parties and V.B.S. programs and with the forgotten. We remain committed to urban leaders who are “Heroes of Faith” serving in the trenches, battling the forces of darkness and desiring practical urban training that will help empower them to reclaim their City for Christ.
Urban Internships: Students integrate theory with practical “hands-on” urban ministry. Seminaries, Christian Colleges, Bible School and Missionary organizations accept this one to eight-week urban training at NYSUM for their internships. Classroom training from NYSUM staff and city pastors include evangelism, cross-cultural communication and much more. Internships are tailored to meet the requirements of the respective school.
Annual Outreaches:
Spring Break & Summer Outreaches: NYSUM prepares teams, as daily, they are launched into the urban mission field working with New York City pastors and churches for citywide revival. Some Spring & Summer ministries include:
- Open-air street meetings
- Soup kitchens
- City shelters
- Church Meetings
- After-School Programs
- AIDS ward ministry
- Homeless & Compassion Outreach
- Clowning, puppets, drama
Winter Compassion Outreaches:
Operation City Compassion is a united outreach to homeless people of New York City, who are often forgotten during the coldest season of the year; the months of December, January, February & March.
Operation Drumstick: Two weekends before Thanksgiving, NYSUM feeds 3,000 hurting people a good old-fashioned Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings. They also experience late-night homeless outreach of the streets of New York City.
Operation Christmas Compassion: Operation Christmas Compassion is a united outreach to forgotten homeless street people during the coldest season of the year (December through March). Teams are trained and sent forth with blankets, bibles, tracts, toiletries and food to demonstrate Christ’s compassion to hurting humanity.
Other Special Events & Outreaches
New York City Church Resources- NYSUM offers many resources to local NYC churches including long-term housing, a food pantry, ministry/outreach partners, seminars and much more.
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