Editor’s Note: This is the last in our short series “Married/Single in Youth Ministry.” Meet Bob and Kris Konsowitz. Kris is the Director of Ministries with Young People at Collierville United Methodist Church, outside Memphis, Tenn., and Bob is a Senior Quality Analyst with FedEx Supply Chain Services. They have three children—Melissa (married to Josh), […]
Editor’s Note: This is the second in our short series “Married/Single in Youth Ministry.” Meet Casey Langley. She and her cat, Phoebe, live in Fort Worth, Texas, where Casey is the Director of Youth Ministries at First United Methodist Church. Her parents, brother, and sister-in-law live in Tennessee, so they Skype a lot. How long have […]
Warmth in Winter is an annual youth event organized by the Tennessee Conference Young People’s Ministries of the United Methodist Church for the Middle Tennessee area churches. This year’s three-day event was themed “Something Beautiful” and was held in Murfreesboro in January. CYMT was well represented at Warmth in Winter with 16 graduate residents and […]
Jill Carr is the youth minister at White Oak Pond Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Lebanon, Mo. This is her story of how she came to be a CYMT graduate resident. Growing up on a farm and the youngest of three, our family lifestyle consisted of school, work, farm work, and church. The only social life […]
Meet Travis and Amanda Garner Travis is the Pastor of Discipleship (he just recently transitioned from being the Pastor of Student Ministries for eight+ years) at Brentwood United Methodist Church in Brentwood, Tenn. and Amanda is a Speech/Language Pathologist. The have two kids—Paxon (age 5), Asher (age 2.5)—baby number three on the way, and Snoop Dawg, […]
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in our short series “Married/Single in Youth Ministry.” Meet Jason Sansbury Jason (far right in picture) is the Director of Youth Ministries at Bethlehem United Methodist Church in Franklin, Tenn. His mom lives in Georgia, dad lives in Texas, and he thinks his nephew and nieces are the most […]
Friends, Thank you for your investment in the Center for Youth Ministry Training. God continues to do amazing things in and through our ministry. We just returned from our first spring retreat, during which our graduate residents shared some of the ways God has been moving in their lives and through their ministries. Here are […]
You’ve planned an amazing white water rafting trip for your students. You’ve written every devotional, laid out every game, ice breaker, and small group activity. You found a rafting company that will take care of all the logistics. You put down a deposit, a non-refundable deposit. You’re so excited about what this trip is going […]
Friends, Your investment in the Center for Youth Ministry Training continues to pay huge dividends and we are grateful for your support. Recently, I was presenting the CYMT partner church program to a church in West Tennessee. As folks were arriving, one gentleman sat down and read our tagline on the screen: “Because good youth […]
As youth ministers, we often serve as change agents. We begin ministry young, idealistic, eager, and often arrogant. We work in churches that have become disconnected with the culture in which they live and we know that they need to change to survive, much less fulfill their missions. We are on the front line of […]
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