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Envisioning, Building and Sustaining Thriving Youth Ministries
Envisioning, Building and Sustaining Thriving Youth Ministries
Introduction
Private: Introduction
Introduction
Section 1: Why Youth Ministry Is Important
Prepare – Jeremiah 1:4-8
Stages of Adolescent Development, Chap Clark – Video
4 minutes
Spiritual Development in Step with Human Development, Chap Clark – Video
2 minutes
Remembering the Importance of Youth Ministry, Kenda Creasy Dean – Video
3 minutes
The Uniqueness of Adolescence, Kenda Creasy Dean – Video
3 minutes
Why Youth Feel Disempowered, Elizabeth Corrie – Video
9 minutes
The Nature of Adolescence, Matthew Kuan Johnson – Video
3 minutes
Questions for Discussion and Reflection
Additional Resources
Section 2: What Is a Thriving Youth Ministry?
Prepare – Luke 24:13-35
Exemplary Youth Ministry, Roland Martinson – Video and Discussion Outline
6 minutes
Live, Love, Listen, Learn…Lead, Skip Masback – Video and Discussion Outline
30 minutes
Discovering a Vision Statement for Youth Ministry, Frederick Edie – Video and Discussion Outline
6 minutes
Questions for Reflection
Additional Resources
Section 3: Vision and Mission Statements
Prepare – Jeremiah 29:8-14
The Importance of Vision in Starting a Youth Ministry, Jorge Gonzalez – Video and Discussion Outline
3 minutes
Discovering a Vision Statement for Youth Ministry, Skip Masback – Video and Discussion Outline
4 minutes
Discerning and Communicating Vision and Mission, Skip Masback – Video and Discussion Outline
4 minutes
Questions for Reflection
Additional Resources
Section 4: Enacting Your Vision
Prepare – Joshua 1:1-13
Putting Vision into Practice, Skip Masback – Video and Discussion Outline
5 minutes
The Pedagogy of Patience, Gregory Ellison, III – Video and Discussion Outline
6 minutes
Translating Vision into Practice, Skip Masback – Video and Discussion Outline
6 minutes
Questions for Reflection
Additional Resources
Section 5: Building Your Ministry - The Essentials
Prepare – Matthew 7:24-27
The Grace of Playing, Courtney Goto – Video and Discussion Outline
4 minutes
Creating Opportunities for Youth to Experience God, Shane Claiborne – Video and Discussion Outline
5 minutes
Essential Elements of Youth Ministry, Tim Walsh – Video and Discussion Outline
8 minutes
Questions for Reflection
Additional Resources
Section 6: Building Your Ministry - Deepening Your Ministry
Prepare – 1 Samuel 3
Creating Deeper Opportunities for Youth, Skip Masback – Video and Discussion Outline
6 minutes
Three Ways Successful Churches Engage Youth, Mark Gornik – Video and Discussion Outline
4 minutes
When Quality Counts, Mark DeVries – Video and Discussion Outline
5 minutes
Safe and Brave Space, Yadi Martinez-Reyna – Video and Discussion Outline
3 minutes
Questions for Reflection
Additional Resources
Section 7: Sustaining Your Ministry - Overcoming Obstacles
Prepare – James 4
Church Politics, Mark DeVries – Video and Discussion Outline
4 minutes
Investing in Youth Ministry, Lillian Daniel – Video and Discussion Outline
3 minutes
Critical Counsciousness, David Anderson Hooker – Video and Discussion Outline
4 minutes
Questions for Reflection
Additional Resources
Section 8: Sustaining Your Ministry - Maintaining a Transformational Culture
Prepare – Romans 12:1-5
Rethinking the Church as a Creative Community, Kenda Creasy Dean – Video and Discussion Outline
5 minutes
Growing Young, Steven Argue – Video and Discussion Outline
4 minutes
6 Strategies to Grow Your Church Young, Kara Powell and Mike Park – Video and Discussion Outline
5 minutes
Questions for Reflection
Additional Resources
Critical Counsciousness, David Anderson Hooker – Video and Discussion Outline
Dr. David Anderson Hooker on critical consciousness.
Questions for Discussion:
What are our places of exclusion in our youth ministry? What are the obstacles that are in our way to addressing this?
What are some of the tools at our disposal to help our youth see this and be empowered to change the culture in which we live?
What are some examples of obstacles that Jesus had to overcome in the Scriptures? And how might we learn from His example?
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