Posts Tagged ‘ Intergrated Youth Ministry ’
We called it, “EYM On the Road.” The weekend began with three Luther Seminary staff piling into a mini-van and heading across the farm fields of Minnesota, Power Points and lectures ready. The weekend ended with an overwhelming sense of appreciation for the greater church, and for the people God’s called into leading youth and [ READ MORE ]
When I first started in professional youth ministry, I simply wanted to create an environment of relationship and “church fun” that mirrored my own experience as a teen. While that worked on some levels, I was pretty sure something else was happening that I could not name – I had no language for it. After [ READ MORE ]
Exemplary Youth Ministry is really about leadership on multiple levels– your leadership as the youth minister, your adult leaders. One of the key findings of the EYM study is that the pastor is the chief youth minister. A senior pastor who champions and keeps youth ministry central to the congregation’s culture is critical. Now in [ READ MORE ]
It is exciting starting out in a new ministry context. Especially since I am in a totally new place. I’ve been in my new position as Director of Youth and Family Ministry for two weeks. And a move from Texas to Wisconsin. It is all a little disorienting. But I am hoping to use that disorientation to [ READ MORE ]
What kind of congregational faith and life nurtures you of maturing Christian faith? A surprising discovery emerges from the findings of the EYM study: entire congregations make a difference in youth ministry. The congregations in the study are powerful faith and life shaping systems. Youth ministry doesn’t exist on the side of or separate from [ READ MORE ]
One of the places that churches have been trying for years to incorporate young people has been in congregational leadership—like search teams, or even a token youth position on the church council. We all know that it mostly hasn’t worked. But sometimes it does. It has blossomed in new ways at my church as we [ READ MORE ]
I just attended the FIRST/THIRD conference at Luther Seminary, where Kenda Dean, Andrew Root and the 120 participants spent two days engaged in theological dialogue about youth ministry. One of the insights that emerged early in the conversation was the “CAGE” that adolescence has become for many young people. Does the church and youth ministry [ READ MORE ]
EYM levels the playing field: We used to think that great youth ministry was built pretty much exclusively around a dynamic youth minister, so the church who found that person WON! Unfortunately, it just doesn’t work, and they didn’t WIN. Here’s some of what that faulty thinking produced: A revolving door of youth ministers. A [ READ MORE ]
The Exemplary Youth Ministry congregations present a portrait of the strong impact faith communities can have on the faith and lives of young people when churches set their minds to fully enfranchise young people in their life and ministry. When pastors, congregational leaders, parents and adult youth leaders work together to promote real commitment to [ READ MORE ]
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