by Andrew Mochrie Growing up, my parents instructed me to play well with others, specifically my sister. Those conversations often came after I had not played well, or somehow left my sister crying in the sandbox. (I was just doing my best to teach her how to exfoliate her face and arms…) As I grew […]
The CYMT graduate residents attended the National Youth Workers Convention (NYWC) in November in Nashville as a part of the CYMT curriculum. The convention is geared for people who work in ministry with teenagers and includes training, resources, inspiration, and encouragement for participants. Derek Walker is a first year graduate resident at CYMT and shared […]
by Andrew Zirschky The last thing anyone needs is another article on leadership. We’re a culture obsessed with the topic as any trip to the local bookstore will reveal. Faced with a declining Christian culture, church leaders in particular have become consumed with the latest and greatest notions of what it means to be a […]
As the Executive Director of the Center for Youth Ministry Training, I believe God is doing amazing things through our ministry. One of my jobs is to tell the Good News of all the little miracles taking place at CYMT, as well as in and through our partner churches’ youth ministries. Since a major component […]
(Pictured above are first-year resident Kelly Mongoven, Christ the King Lutheran, and second-year resident Tina Boyd, Canterbury UMC, both in Birmingham.) The original task force members who would work diligently to create the Center for Youth Ministry dreamed of a day when CYMT would have regional campuses across the country. Although we have yet to […]
Lauren Gilliland (front row, center) serves as the youth minister at Munford First United Methodist Church in Munford, Tenn. She graduated in May 2013 from Memphis Theological Seminary and CYMT. I first became introduced to CYMT through Kris Konsowitz, CYMT’s Memphis Regional Director. We had several mutual United Methodist connections, and she was also working […]
John Padgett serves as CYMT’s Chairman of the Board of Directors, and has been on the board for three years. “Our children had a wonderful, positive experience as they progressed through the youth program at Brentwood United Methodist Church led by then youth minister Dietrich Kirk. When Deech asked me to lend my efforts to […]
Editor’s Note: This article stems from the author’s final paper in Theological Foundations for Youth Ministry, a graduate course offered through the Center for Youth Ministry Training and Memphis Theological Seminary, taught by Dr. Andrew Zirschky. by Neal Wilkinson “God is bringing life from death.” This is the crux of how I understand the good […]
by Mark Taylor Before some people see the word “flexible” and immediately think “relative” or “ambiguous,” let me quickly define what I mean by a rigid faith and a flexible faith. A rigid faith is a stubborn, eyes-closed, arrogant, unwilling to grow or learn, self-righteous, static faith. A flexible faith admits it doesn’t have all […]
by Lisa Long Our church celebrated its 100th birthday just a couple of years ago. For half of that century it has been located less than a mile from a local public housing neighborhood. Last year this housing community was named one of the most dangerous places to live in the U.S. Although the members […]
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