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Envisioning, Building and Sustaining Thriving Youth Ministries
Envisioning, Building and Sustaining Thriving Youth Ministries
Curriculum
9 Sections
53 Lessons
8 Weeks
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Introduction
1
1.1
Introduction
Section 1: Why Youth Ministry Is Important
9
2.1
Prepare – Jeremiah 1:4-8
2.2
Stages of Adolescent Development, Chap Clark – Video
4 Minutes
2.3
Spiritual Development in Step with Human Development, Chap Clark – Video
2 Minutes
2.4
Remembering the Importance of Youth Ministry, Kenda Creasy Dean – Video
3 Minutes
2.5
The Uniqueness of Adolescence, Kenda Creasy Dean – Video
3 Minutes
2.6
Why Youth Feel Disempowered, Elizabeth Corrie – Video
9 Minutes
2.7
The Nature of Adolescence, Matthew Kuan Johnson – Video
3 Minutes
2.8
Questions for Discussion and Reflection
2.9
Additional Resources
Section 2: What Is a Thriving Youth Ministry?
6
3.1
Prepare – Luke 24:13-35
3.2
Exemplary Youth Ministry, Roland Martinson – Video and Discussion Outline
6 Minutes
3.3
Live, Love, Listen, Learn…Lead, Skip Masback – Video and Discussion Outline
30 Minutes
3.4
Discovering a Vision Statement for Youth Ministry, Frederick Edie – Video and Discussion Outline
6 Minutes
3.5
Questions for Reflection
3.6
Additional Resources
Section 3: Vision and Mission Statements
6
4.1
Prepare – Jeremiah 29:8-14
4.2
The Importance of Vision in Starting a Youth Ministry, Jorge Gonzalez – Video and Discussion Outline
3 Minutes
4.3
Discovering a Vision Statement for Youth Ministry, Skip Masback – Video and Discussion Outline
4 Minutes
4.4
Discerning and Communicating Vision and Mission, Skip Masback – Video and Discussion Outline
4 Minutes
4.5
Questions for Reflection
4.6
Additional Resources
Section 4: Enacting Your Vision
6
5.1
Prepare – Joshua 1:1-13
5.2
Putting Vision into Practice, Skip Masback – Video and Discussion Outline
5 Minutes
5.3
The Pedagogy of Patience, Gregory Ellison, III – Video and Discussion Outline
6 Minutes
5.4
Translating Vision into Practice, Skip Masback – Video and Discussion Outline
6 Minutes
5.5
Questions for Reflection
5.6
Additional Resources
Section 5: Building Your Ministry - The Essentials
6
6.1
Prepare – Matthew 7:24-27
6.2
The Grace of Playing, Courtney Goto – Video and Discussion Outline
4 Minutes
6.3
Creating Opportunities for Youth to Experience God, Shane Claiborne – Video and Discussion Outline
5 Minutes
6.4
Essential Elements of Youth Ministry, Tim Walsh – Video and Discussion Outline
8 Minutes
6.5
Questions for Reflection
6.6
Additional Resources
Section 6: Building Your Ministry - Deepening Your Ministry
7
7.1
Prepare – 1 Samuel 3
7.2
Creating Deeper Opportunities for Youth, Skip Masback – Video and Discussion Outline
6 Minutes
7.3
Three Ways Successful Churches Engage Youth, Mark Gornik – Video and Discussion Outline
4 Minutes
7.4
When Quality Counts, Mark DeVries – Video and Discussion Outline
5 Minutes
7.5
Safe and Brave Space, Yadi Martinez-Reyna – Video and Discussion Outline
3 Minutes
7.6
Questions for Reflection
7.7
Additional Resources
Section 7: Sustaining Your Ministry - Overcoming Obstacles
6
8.1
Prepare – James 4
8.2
Church Politics, Mark DeVries – Video and Discussion Outline
4 Minutes
8.3
Investing in Youth Ministry, Lillian Daniel – Video and Discussion Outline
3 Minutes
8.4
Critical Counsciousness, David Anderson Hooker – Video and Discussion Outline
4 Minutes
8.5
Questions for Reflection
8.6
Additional Resources
Section 8: Sustaining Your Ministry - Maintaining a Transformational Culture
6
9.1
Prepare – Romans 12:1-5
9.2
Rethinking the Church as a Creative Community, Kenda Creasy Dean – Video and Discussion Outline
5 Minutes
9.3
Growing Young, Steven Argue – Video and Discussion Outline
4 Minutes
9.4
6 Strategies to Grow Your Church Young, Kara Powell and Mike Park – Video and Discussion Outline
5 Minutes
9.5
Questions for Reflection
9.6
Additional Resources
Putting Vision into Practice, Skip Masback – Video and Discussion Outline
Rev. Skip Masback talks about putting a vision statement for youth ministry into practice.
Questions for Discussion:
How can we improve at showcasing and clearly articulating our vision in the whole church community, and in the wider community?
Who else is passionate about this? Whom can we invite to join us in the work we are already doing?
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