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Organisation and planning 2006-2008


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Mission of statement

To understand how European Adventist youth liveout their faith, in order to develop a culturally-

appropriate strategy for Adventist youth ministryand mission.


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Why a Valuegenesis Europe

Essentially :

1. to provide a description of the value system of European Adventist youth

2. to assess their faith in the context of the most influential institutions: family,

church and society.

3. to determine what factors in Adventist homes, churches

and in their social

context, nurture the values and faith in young people.

4. to help understand how Adventism in the 21st Century can provide a relevant

framework for the faith of young people in the European context.


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Whos organizing this project?

The organisation of the survey is co-ordinated by theJos Figols Centre for Youth Ministry (Collonges),in cooperation with the EUD/TED Youth MinistriesDepartments and their networksat Union andConference level, under the supervision of bothEuropean Divisions.

The three Division Colleges (Collonges, Friedensau,Newbold) provide the research network.


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Who can participate inValuegenesis?

The target population of this survey is Adventist

youth living in 17 European countries.


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Countries involved

EUD1. Austrian Union

2. Bulgarian Union3. Czech Conference

4. Franco-Belgian Union

5. North German Union

6. South German Union

7. Italian Union

8. Portuguese Union

9. Rumanian Union10. Slovakian Conference

11. Spanish Union

12. Swiss Union

TED1. Adriatic Union

2. British Union

3. Netherlands Union

4. Swedish Union

5. Danish Union

6. Norwegian Union


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Translations

EUD

1. Bulgarian2. Czech

3. French

4. German

5. Italian

6. Portuguese7. Rumanian

8. Slovakian

9. Spanish

TED

1. Albanian2. Croatian

3. Danish

4. Dutch

5. Norwegian

6. Slovenian

7. Swedish


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Definition of Population (young people aged 14-25) All baptized young people aged 14-25 years.

All youth from SDA family background currently attending(whether baptized or not)

Include all irregular or non-attending young people who havehad contact with the church in the last 2 years. (Baptized or notbut with a SDA background.)


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Why should youth participate?

1. Because youth are an important part of the church2. Because it is an opportunity to express their opinion about the church

3. To try and find an answer to why youth are leaving the church

4. To make the church more aware of youth issues

5. Because the opinions of every youth are important for us

6. Because the answers will help in setting strategies relevant to young

peoples needs.7. To help the church make changes to better fulfill its mission.


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European Valuegenesis:

how does it work?

For the first time the survey will be administeredthrough a website designed by a professionalsurvey company.

All youth either owning or having access to acomputer will be simply connected with a veryeasy questionnaire of approximately 250questions.

Each participating country will be given one month forthe data collection (see Calendar)


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The website will provideconfidential and anonymousaccess to the questionnaire bymeans of a password. Eachyoung person will receive a

personal and single-usepassword which will allowhim/her to fill out thequestionnaire. The password willexpire at the completion of the

questionnaire.


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Union/Conference Survey administrator (President or Youth Leader) will send apackage to the local pastor including a description of the process and thepasswords.

Local youth leaders will create a list of youth in the target age group and theywill distribute the passwords to them.

When the process is completed, the pastor will sign a form and will send it back

by fax or by email to the Union/Conference Survey Administratortogether with the unused passwords.

How does it work?Pre Survey Organisation


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How does it work?Promotion & data collection

The pastor (survey coordinator) supervisesthe promotion & data collection processin partnership with the local Youth Leader

The Administration ManualandPromotion& data collection Timetable areavailable both in the package and on the

website. www.valuegenesis.org
http://www.valuegenesis.org/http://www.valuegenesis.org/


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In addition to web based forms written forms can be made availableas a PDF file upon request for young people not having access to acomputer. However, these results must be processed locally, underthe supervision of the Union/Conference Survey Administrator.


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Date Union Language Notes

October

2006

Portuguese Union Portuguese Pilot test

Italian Union Italian Pilot test

November2006 German Unions GermanAustrian Union German

Valuegenesis Calendar


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Date Union Language Notes

December 2006 British Union English

Bulgarian Union Bulgarian

Czech Conf.

Slovak Conf.

Czech

Slovakian

January 2007 Franco-BelgianUnion

French

Swiss Union French - German

Rumanian Union Rumanian

Adriatic Union Croatian, Albanian,

Slovenian


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After data collection

Each church is encouraged to give a feedback detailing the procedure put inplace and an estimation of how the project went.

The feedback will be sent to the Union/Conference office on an evaluationform provided.

An analysis of the raw percentage scores for all questions will be available foreach Union 4-6 weeks after the close of the survey month.

The European report will be completed by the Valuegenesis ResearchCommittee some time after the conclusion of the whole survey.


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After Valuegenesis

The results of the Valuegenesis survey will be useful in many directions:

1. A better comprehension on how youth see the church in all its dimensions;2. How to face the most important challenges todays youth launches the church;

3. A better awareness about responsibilities that youth can accept within the church

4. To highlight the weak areas in order to empower youth leadership in the church.

5. To have an answer regarding the apparent inactivity of youth and challenge themto be partner of the mission

and so on


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Promotional material

Logo of the project:

A mouse pad

Web site www.valuegenesis.org

European Valuegenesis Survey

ADMINISTRATION MANUAL
http://www.valuegenesis.org/http://www.valuegenesis.org/


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Prepared byEUD/TED Youth DepartmentJos Figols Center

Contents are taken from texts written by

Manuela CastiJos Figols Center

Bailey GillespieJohn Hanckok Center

EUD/TED Youth Department Administrative material

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