This course explores the benefits and importance of providing leadership opportunities to students and empowering young people to take ownership of their youth programs.
-
Introduction
-
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
-
Section 2: Discerning the Gifts of Student Leadership
-
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
- Leadership Possibilities, Kishundra King and Whitney Bond – Video and Discussion Outline
- Questions for Reflection
- Additional Resources
-
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
- Mentorship in Space Making, Phiwa Langeni – Video and Discussion Outline
- Questions for Reflection
- Additional Resources
-
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
