The Center for Youth Ministry Training’s spring semester is underway. Graduate residents are reading and preparing for our first retreat at the end of January. We want to give you a brief overview of the semester, and we have included our spring retreat calendar and courses. Spring 2014 January 29 – January 31, 2014 Spring Retreat […]
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 […]
by Randy Knighten In January of every year in the United States of America we celebrate the life of one of the most influential ministers and public theologians in the history of the world. The birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is a national holiday in which we all take a moment to reflect […]
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 […]
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