Planning and Leading Mission Trips
Youth long for experiences that will take them outside of their cramped, every day experience and connect them with something larger than themselves, with the transcendent love of God. Rev. Skip Masback will guide us through the nuts and bolts “best practices” that prepare the ground for mission trips in which our young people are “pilgrims not tourists, learners not teachers, listeners not talkers and receivers not givers.”
Bible Study That Transforms
Dr. Rodger Nishioka speaks on experiential Bible studies. He addresses the strengths and weaknesses of Bible studies and techniques to enrich the class.
Ministering to Youth Growing Up in a Screen-Based World
Dr. Andrew Root, Associate Professor and Carrie Olson Baalson Chair of Youth Ministry and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary asks the question, “With so much time and attention focused on the computer, TV, iPad an cell phone, how do young people experience spiritual life in a “hyper-real” world and how can we minister to them?”
Talking About Sin With Young People
When ministries look at how they discuss sin with young people it frequently gets framed as doing bad things. When sin is framed in this way we try to bend their will and push them towards obedience turning youth ministry into sin management and an attempt to make young people be better. Andy Root encourages us to look at sin as a state of brokenness and isolation rather than just “bad things”. Sin is a state of being and loss of relationship whereas sinning is the bad things that we do.
Praise: Being Transformed in Joy
Rev. Canon Chris Russell and Dr. David F. Ford speak on praise after delivering a lecture entitled, “Praise: Being Transformed in Joy,” at Yale Divinity School on Wednesday February 7, 2018. This lecture is part of the Joy and Adolescent Faith & Flourishing Series.
Dr. David F. Ford is Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge and is Founding Director of Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme in the Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies. He is the author of numerous books including: The Future of Christian Theology.
Rev. Canon Chris Russell has been the vicar at St. Laurence Church in Reading […]