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Introduction
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Section 1: Why Student Leadership?
- Prepare – Luke 2:41-52
- Cultivating Student Leadership, Aracelis Vazquez Haye – Video and Discussion Outline
- Encouraging Leadership in Youth Ministry, Mike Park – Video and Discussion Outline
- Spiritual Growth and Discipleship as Invitation, Chap Clark – Video and Discussion Outline
- Questions for Reflection
- Additional Resources
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Section 2: Discerning the Gifts of Student Leadership
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Section 3: Cultivating and Training Leaders Within the Youth Group
- Prepare – Ephesians 4:1-16
- Helping Youth Cultivate Life Skills in the Process of Ministry, Janice McLean-Farrell – Video and Discussion Outline
- Training Youth to Lead, Chris Russell – Video and Discussion Outline
- Cultivating Leadership in Youth Group Settings, Mark Park – Video and Discussion Outline
- Questions for Reflection
- Additional Resources
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Section 4: Helping Youth to Own the Ministry
- Prepare – Acts 11:1-18
- Senior Leadership, Skip Masback – Video and Discussion Outline
- How to Help Young People Own Their Ministry, Jorge Gonzalez – Video and Discussion Outline
- Benefits of Outdoor Ministry, Ryan Gackenheimer and Andrew Wicks – Video and Discussion Outline
- Questions for Reflection
- Additional Resources
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Section 5: Agency in Student Leadership
- Prepare – Matthew 14:13-21
- Advice for Youth Ministers, Almeda Wright and Nyle Fort – Video and Discussion Outline
- Individual and Collective Agency, Almeda Wright and Nyle Fort – Video and Discussion Outline
- Vocation, Bill Mathis – Video and Discussion Outline
- Questions for Reflection
- Additional Resources
Helping Youth Find Their Voice, Almeda Wright – Video and Discussion Outline
Rev. Dr. Almeda Wright talks about helping young people find their voice.
Questions for Discussion:
- Where in our communities are youth being silenced? Is it happening anywhere in the church, where youth are not allowed to participate?
- What resources are available to us that we can use to help youth to find their voice, and thus name their gifts of leadership?
- What would it look like for us to pause, and to listen to the wisdom and passions that our youth are expressing? And then, where are we prepared for our youth to take us?