Yale University

Youth Ministry Institute

Student Leadership

Not Too Little to Lead: The Value of Children as Leaders in our Worship

Brandy McDonald

2025-2026: Love of Children Program

The Meaningful Inclusion of Children in Worship: Theology and Practice

Wendy Claire Barrie

2024-2025: Lunch Lab

Why Ministries Innovate and How to Start: Knee Deep in Flotsam

Matt Overton, Kenda Creasy Dean

Summer Symposia

Connecting and Integrating Children’s and Youth Ministry Across the Church

Caroline Ainsworth Hughes

2021-2022: Thriving, Not Surviving — Building a Toolkit for a Flourishing Youth Ministry

Innovation, Imagination, and Frustration: New Directions for Youth Ministry

2020-2021: Not Your Mothers Youth Group — Ministry to Youth

Racial Resilience: Anti-Racism as Spiritual Praxis

Christopher Carter, Seth Schoen

Fear, Isolation, and Anxiety: Understanding the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Youth

Parents, The REAL Pastors

Christian Smith

2014-2015: A Future with Hope

Sustainable Youth and Children’s Ministries

2019-2020: Youth Ministry in a Modern Age

Mission Trips

Sharell Shippen

Organizing Mission Trips

Caroline Ainsworth Hughes

Training and Hiring Youth Workers

2019-2020: Youth Ministry in a Modern Age