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Best Practices
We've curated clips from our video archive into what we consider 'best practices' for youth ministry. We hope that these offer useful footholds in exploring the material available.
Internal Welcome and External Witness: LGBTQ Youth Ministry
01:28:32
Who Are the LGBTQ+ Youth?
09:38
Values Determine Logistics 1: Forms
07:35
Values Determine Logistics 2: Bathrooms
02:19
Values Determine Logistics 3: Sleeping Arrangements
03:51
Values Determine Logistics 4: How Affirming Are Our Partners?
04:07
Public Witness Outside our Congregation
04:37
God as Beyond Gender
04:31
Queer Bible Stories
05:59
Pastoral Boldness in Advocacy
04:34
Creating Communities of Inclusion and Belonging for Youth with Disabilities
01:25:25
A 50 Year History/Current Sketch of Disabilities in Church and Society
09:04
What Does Belonging Look Like?
01:34
Statistics Regarding Faith and Youth with Disabilities
03:01
Employment Opportunities for Youth with Disabilities
07:40
Focusing on the Guest
05:23
Friendships across All Abilities
05:53
It All Starts with Connection
04:48
Nuts and Bolts - How to Foster Belonging
05:33
The Danger of the Single Story
05:20
Talking with Teens about Sex, Tech, and Faith
01:22:37
Creating a Sexual Ethic in a Christian Community
06:55
Defining Terms - Pornography vs Sexually Explicit Materials
04:51
Healthy Online Sexual Community Engagement
05:21
Helping Youth Become Ethicists
07:08
Sex and Self-Worth for Youth
00:04
Sex and Tech
03:31
What Is Sexuality
05:24
Cultivating Communication Skills
03:50
How to Educate Parents about Technology and Sex
03:16
The Storm Isn’t Over: Ways to Support the Social Emotional Needs of Youth
01:04:55
Tending to Youth and Tending to Ourselves
02:50
How to Help Youth Act On Their Feelings
07:23
Helping Youth Have Permission to Give
03:24
Resilience, or Anti-Fragility?
03:33
Stress Gets a Bad Rap
04:34
Pressure as Misplaced Anxiety about Success
04:23
Safe Space
03:46
Frustrated Parenting as Experiencing Fear
04:07
"Back to Normal" as a Very Unhelpful Phrase
03:09
God as the Innovator, Pastors as Co-Creators
04:54
One Church's Story of Innovation
18:45
Tips and Practical Advice for Innovation
01:28:59
Status of the Church and the Need to Innovate
24:49
Church Impact from Pandemic
01:15
Shipwreck and Potential, Jetsam and Flotsam
06:23
Mental Health Needs
03:51
What's next for the church? Who does the innovation?
10:38
Framing Questions for Innovation
01:38
The Pastor's Role
02:52
Empowering Young People Toward Beloved Community
01:23:11
Being Attuned to What Youth Bring
03:45
Community as Justice
04:19
Discernment with Youth
01:45
Empowerment of Youth
05:18
Liturgy as a Tool for Critical Storytelling
03:36
Role of the Holy Spirit in Beloved Community-Making
02:57
Scriptures as a Means of Critical Storytelling
08:10
What Beloved Community Is
04:35
Faith at Home: Mindfulness
03:28
Faith at Home: Serving Others
03:20
Faith at Home: Dinner Time
03:03
Faith at Home: Bedtime
03:28
Talking About Race with Young People
01:36:40
Double Consciousness for Youth of Color
08:58
Empowering Young People in Conversations about Race
07:59
First Steps for White Youth Groups
06:22
Pastoral and Tangible Needs for Immigrant Youth
10:12
Push and Pull for Immigrant Youth
05:44
Connecting and Integrating Children’s and Youth Ministry Across the Church
01:10:17
Children and Youth Coming Together
03:23
Discerning the Why
05:19
First Steps for Integrating Children and Youth Ministries
04:07
How to Program with an Integrated Approach
06:54
Integrating Children and Youth Ministries in Churches of All Sizes
02:55
Somebodying our Children and Youth
04:30
Supporting the Stakeholders
05:24
I Hear You: Creating Listening Spaces with Youth with Mark Yaconelli
01:12:34
Creating a Youth Group that Really Listens
04:31
Creating Experiences of Holiness
04:26
Deafness in Culture
05:28
Journaling with Youth
03:44
Take Storytelling to the Church
03:34
When the Youth Ministry Worship Falls Flat
08:22
Why Listening Matters in Youth Ministry
05:38
Youth As Religious Interpreters
02:38
Freedom from Confinement
06:01