Article Ideas

The following are a few ideas for articles. The editors would like to see these as well as your own original ideas developed. If there are questions about the acceptability of an idea, just e-mail or call us…we're here to help you help us.

A. Ideas about how to form and multiply OCF small group fellowships

1. How to organize
2. Leadership
3. What to study
4. How to get members
5. What does a healthy fellowship look like?
6. Dividing and multiplying
7. Handling disagreement or tough issues
8. How to integrate professional service and spiritual leadership

B. How to integrate professional service and spiritual leadership

1. Preventing burnout
2. Keeping the Sabbath
3. Home, church and work
4. Ways to reach out to those in need
5. Creative ways to minister in the military environment

C. Time management

1. How to make sure time is spent in the right areas
2. How much "personal time" is enough?
3. How to strengthen your "walk" in the time you have

D. Marriage and parenting

1. Making time for wife/family
2. Supporting the one who is gone
3. Maintaining ties while apart
4. Raising children in the military environment
5. If married thirty years or more, share how you've done it
6. What does the bible say about marriage…really?

E. Holidays, Christian significance (note long lead time for COMMAND)

1. Christmas, Easter, and other "religious" holidays
2. Secular holidays from a Christian perspective, eg. Valentine's Day
3. Ideas about how to celebrate holidays

F. Personal faith

1. Testimony of faith
2. How was your faith acquired?
3. How do you reach out to others?

G. Officers' Christian Fellowship

1. What has OCF done for you?
2. How did you first encounter OCF?
3. Is OCF as valid today as when you joined?
4. How can OCF expand and be strengthened?
5. What would you do if you were Executive Director of OCF?
6. OCF in a wartime environment
7. OCF aboard ship
8. Developing leaders