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CCECYOUTH.COM has put up a series of talks I did last year from 1 Thessalonians. The series was called “Destined for Glory”. (RSS Feed)
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National Youth Week is April 5-13, 2008. Do you know of any Christian youth ministries that run events in conjunction with Youth Week? It wouldn’t be that difficult. Christian youth ministry runs each week – so it wouldn’t require an enormous amount of work. I think it would simply require a youth ministry to be more intentional in linking their weekly events into the local youth week program.
I don’t think that it’s wise for Protestant Youth Ministries to run events as part of World (Catholic) Youth Day, but can see no reason why it would be a problem to link into something that the general community is running. Know of any groups currently doing it? How could it be done effectively?
Mark Oestreicher, President of Youth Specialities, is currently writing a new book called Youth Ministry 3.0. Marko has been blogging snapshots from his book and been requesting comments that will be considered for inclusion in the book. Marko argues that much of youth ministry is failing and that “this is why we need an epochal shift in our assumptions, approaches, models and methods.” It seems like he raises some good questions, but I haven’t finished reading all the posts yet so can’t really comment on his conclusions.
It looks like there are some good bits on youth culture and the history of youth ministry. Have a read and let me (and him) know what you think. Is youth ministry failing? Or is it just a particular type of American youth ministry is failing? How do you measure success and failure in youth ministry?
Friday Foto is running two days late! This pic is of some lights, a microphone, guitar and Stephanie Papapavlou. She supported the “Rock Band” during Kingsford Mission on Friday night. Good times.
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Last year I went to 2 youth ministry conferences. They were both quite different. Below are links to 22 posts from the conferences.
The Cross of Jesus was clearly preached at one, and sadly not on centre stage at the other.
Tasmania is a fully sick place. We went there on holidays in April 2007. The blog came along for the journey. Check out the posts to relive the memories: Tassie Tour Journal Day 1; Tassie Tour Journal Day 2; Tassie Tour Journal Day; Tassie Tour Journal Day 4; Tassie Tour Journal Day 5; Tassie Tour Journal Day 6; Tassie Tour Journal Day 7; Tassie Tour Journal Day 8; Tassie Tour Journal Day 9 and Tassie Tour Journal Day 10.
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