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Lunch Lab Series
A Journey with LGBTQ+ and Immigrant Youth
A Journey with LGBTQ+ and Immigrant Youth with Yadi Martínez-Reyna
01:24:47
Creating an LGBTQ+-friendly Prom
06:28
Creating Connections with Community Organizations
04:30
Developing Programs for LGBTQ+ Community
02:32
How to Minister to Immigrant Youth
04:09
How to Minister to Undocumented Youth
06:22
LGBTQ+ Youth and the Day of Silence
03:26
Mentoring Young People on the Margins
04:21
Safe and Brave Space
02:58
Covenant Keeping in LGBTQ+ Friendly Spaces
03:09
A New Vision of Youth Ministry Beyond the Walls of the Church as you Minister During the Pandemic
Virtual Engagement is Different
04:32
Virtual Mission Trips
01:30
Incredible Days' Mission
00:02
Digital Tools and Safety
09:31
The Positive of Digital Communications with Youth - Andrew Wicks
03:31
The Positive of Digital Communications with Youth - Rev. Ryan Gackenheimer
05:08
Seeds of Hope During COVID-19
03:44
Benefits of Engaging Youth Online
03:59
A New Vision of Youth Ministry Beyond the Walls of the Church: Mission Work and Outdoor Ministry
A New Vision of Youth Ministry Beyond the Walls of the Church: Mission Work and Outdoor Ministry
01:30:02
What Is Mission Work?
04:02
Authentic Relationships
00:32
What’s Meaningful About Mission Work?
01:46
Engaging Missions
01:52
Virtual Mission Trips
01:30
Virtual Engagement is Different
04:32
Digital Tools and Safety
09:31
Bringing the Camp Experience Home
02:32
Spiritual Practices Outdoors
01:23
The Science of Well-Being
The Science of Well-Being with Dr. Laurie Santos
01:25:56
Anger and Happiness
04:24
Happiness in Hard Circumstances and the RAIN Technique
05:39
How to Build Happiness into Youth Programming
04:41
How to Quantify Happiness
05:46
Positivity in Community
03:34
Social Connection and Being Other-Oriented
05:37
Why Happiness Is Relevant
05:45
Youth and Sleep
02:51
Social Injustice and Happiness
04:47
Just Breathe: Resilience Strategies for Today’s Youth & Youth Workers
Just Breathe: Resilience Strategies for Today’s Youth & Youth Workers
01:05:23
Spiritual Resilience
02:24
Connectivity
03:22
Resilience and Holy Breath
03:25
Mind, Body, Spirit Resilience
06:42
Political Resistance & Spiritual Resilience
08:51
Increasing Resilience
10:18
Youth with Lower Resilience
07:51
Why Resilience Today?
06:28
The Communal Aspect of Resilience
03:05
Wrestling with Rest in a COVID-19 World
Wrestling with Rest in a COVID-19 World with Nathan Stucky; September 9th, 2020
01:08:28
How Rest Became an Area of Focus
04:32
Rest as Resistance
05:24
Rest for the Underprivileged
04:55
Rest Starts with the Youth Workers
05:15
Sabbath as Communal, Not Individual
06:49
Technology and Rest
04:48
What is Preventing Our Community from Resting?
03:48
Wrestling with Rest in a COVID-19 World Prayer
04:21
Wrestling with Rest in a COVID-19 World - Prayer
04:22
Seeking Sanctuary
The Youth Minister as Cultural Diagnostician
Parents, The REAL Pastors
Sustainable Youth and Children’s Ministries
Rev. Mark DeVries on Sustainable Youth and Children’s Ministries
01:16:09
Rev. Mark DeVries on the Anatomy of Stuckness
04:03
Rev. Mark DeVries on the Importance of Failure
04:51
Rev. Mark DeVries on Failure as Part of the Process of Revitalization
04:51
Rev. Mark DeVries on the Trap of Terminal Uniqueness
02:37
Rev. Mark DeVries on Shifting from Content Thinking to Systems Thinking
06:25
Rev. Mark DeVries on Shifting from Content Thinking to Systems Thinking
06:25
Rev. Mark DeVries on Allowing Room for Risk and Failure
04:19
Rev. Mark DeVries on Leading from the Second Chair
06:53
Rev. Mark DeVries on Helpers and Partners in Youth Ministry
06:33
Training and Hiring Youth Workers
Skip Masback on Hiring Youth Workers
03:21
Skip Masback on Calling, Culture and Mission
04:46
Skip Masback on Hiring within your Congregation
04:12
Skip Masback on Hiring Parents
04:48
Skip Masback Hiring Youth Ministers: Desirable Qualities
03:29
Skip Masback on Gaining Support from the Wider Congregation
04:31
Skip Masback - Quest for the Spirit
04:27
Safe Church Policy
Skip Masback - Safe Church Policy: Thinking Outside the Box
04:21
Skip Masback - Safe Church Policy: Background Checks
03:01
Skip Masback - Safe Church Policy: Reporting Violations
03:01
Skip Masback - Safe Church Policy: Training
04:10
Rev. Skip Masback on Developing Church Safety Policy
03:48
Rev. Skip Masback - Implementing Church Safety Policy
04:16
Rev. Skip Masback - Boundaries and Church Safety
04:03
Rev. Skip Masback on Subjects of Church Safety
02:38
Skip Masback - Safe Church Policy: Maintaining Boundaries
03:30
Rev. Skip Masback - Safe Church Policy: Training Youth Workers
04:09
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Lunch & Lecture Series
2024-2025: Lunch Lab
2023-2024: Lunch Lab
2022-2023: Lunch Lab
2021-2022: Thriving, Not Surviving — Building a Toolkit for a Flourishing Youth Ministry
2020-2021: Not Your Mothers Youth Group — Ministry to Youth
2019-2020: Youth Ministry in a Modern Age
2017-2018: Nurturing Joy in an Uncertain Age
2016-2017: Nurturing Joy in an Uncertain Age
2015-2016: Nurturing Joy in an Uncertain Age
2014-2015: A Future with Hope
2013-2014: Youth Ministry Now!
2012-2013: Youth Ministry Now!
2011-2012: Youth Ministry Now!
Summer Symposia
2018: A Beacon of Joy in the Midst of Suffering
2017: A Beacon of Joy in the Midst of Suffering
2016: A Beacon of Joy in the Midst of Suffering
2015: Planting Seeds of Hope and Joy
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