To find a better way to
do youth ministry, we need to begin by asking the young what they themselves see as the supreme sacramental moment of their church gatherings over the past year.
Not exact matches
Most of the people I work with are aware of it, and some the stuff I
do on the side is because of it, like
youth ministry and working as part of the teaching team at our church.
But there can be specific Church forms of homophobia too: pressurising us to change our sexual orientation (although people who want to seek change in their orientation should be free to
do so, and some find that their sexuality
does change); saying that gay people will go to hell; not permitting us to work with
youth or children (assuming gay people are more likely to be predatory or paedophiles); and holding us back from
ministry roles.
A young Dutch priest who
did his theological studies at the ITI now helps run a parish in the Netherlands and is responsible for
youth ministry.
Other than
youth ministry and a little bit of retail (part - time college job), I don't really have any other job experience or education.
Given this state of affairs, what
does effective
youth ministry look like?
Hi Ed, The Pastor at the Church of Hosanna International
Ministries (HIM),
does not get paid he willingly shows his bank statements to the congregation, in hopes that they will understand where the money is really going and with that said he keeps 100 dollars in his account and lives off of that for a whole month and the rest of the tithes and offerings go to 13 different
ministries, divided evenly and the Church helps out at least 3 - 4 missionaries and the
youth group of the Church all in separate accounts, this is a Church of around 68 to 80 people every Sunday this is not a big Church but God has blessed this man beyond measure and continues to
do so this Church can be found in Saint Joseph Missouri, Pastor Larry Gray.
Next weekend, poke your head into the
youth ministry and wrap your head around the fact that most of those kids will walk away from Christianity after turning 18 (To be fair, some
do come back.).
Can
youth ministry succeed in this if the ecclesial assembly
does not itself embrace these practices and celebrate them?
Turning back to
youth ministry for young adults, Catholic University Chaplaincies can and
do play a vital role in looking after and developing the spiritual needs of students.
We need a seismic shift in the way we
do and think about
youth ministry, says Premier Youthwork editor... More
What are they «
doing» differently (or how are they «thinking» differently) from other churches that have
youth ministries but are not reaching
youth?
Youth ministry expert, Paul Brothwick, suggests, «Today's Christian young people are just waiting for the church to give them something big, something dangerous, something risky to
do.»
Some of the most rewarding moments in children's and
youth ministry for me have been when I helped a child to
do something she never thought she was capable of... she just needed a push, a challenge and maybe a little help.
1989 was the same summer that Spike Lee's race - relations film,
DO THE RIGHT THING came out, I had just read Malcolm X's Autobiography for a class, my IVCF chapter was more and more seeking to explore the implications of «multi-ethnicity» for campus
ministry, and as a college radio DJ I had been exposed to more of the best rap than most white suburbanites — that is, a number of threads came together for me at that time to allow me to be a right - on - the - sidelines spectator of the rap
youth culture phenomenon.
We eschew the role of «pied piper» in
youth work, and the new model trains laypeople to
do the «frontline»
ministry.
«I think that pilgrimage is like [what we
do in]
youth ministry,» he says, referencing contemporary Christianity's short - term mission trip trend.
Spend 15 minutes with Frank each week as he talks about what he is
doing in his
youth group and sharing what is on his mind regarding student
ministry.
If principals and school leaders are going to allow volunteers organised by para-church
youth ministry organisations into our schools why
do we need to obscure the truth about why they are there?
Spend 15 minutes with Frank each week as he talks about what he is
doing in his
youth group and sharing what is on his mind regarding student
ministry.
Spend 15 minutes with Frank each week as he talks about what he is
doing in his
youth group and sharing what is on his mind regarding student
ministry.