by Jason Sansbury Fundraising was my youth ministry kryptonite. Don’t believe me? At one of my earliest jobs, I ran a fundraiser that lost $2000. (On a related note, you should always make sure your middle schoolers haven’t laid their rags in the dirt BEFORE they “clean” the doors of the BMW at the car […]
Thank you for your continued investment in the Center for Youth Ministry Training. I want to share a CYMT story that is typical and extraordinary at the same time. Tiffany studied youth ministry in college. She took a youth ministry job in California and tried to do what God had called her to do. But […]
The Center for Youth Ministry has completed another year and God continues to do amazing work in and through our ministry. We continue to be blessed as we seek to develop theologically informed and practically effective youth ministries. Before we look forward to next year, I want to highlight the accomplishments from 2013-14: Theology Together […]
The following courses will be offered by Memphis Theological Seminary for all CYMT graduate residents enrolled in the Master of Arts in Youth Ministry degree program during the fall semester of the 2013-2014 school year. Please note the dates and times of these courses; they are offered in retreat-based format on the campus of Memphis […]
by Jason Sansbury Each spring in my ministry situation we have a confirmation class for middle school students, which means 95% of the kids involved in it are sixth graders. (Pros and cons abound on that situation and deserve a separate article.) In making the list for the class, the children’s minister and I sit […]
We are excited to 15 new graduate residents to the CYMT graduate residency this Fall. They make up our largest incoming class ever.
Hello! My name is Kelly Mongoven. I am 27 years old. And this is my CYMT story. I grew up in Fort Myers, Fla., in a family with two younger brothers, Jacob and Josh. Growing up my family attended a United Church of Christ that later merged with a Friends church and became a nondenominational […]
They came from their places of comfort and with preconceived ideas of what it means to do missions. They came not knowing what God had in store for them. They came from six churches to Fisk University in downtown Nashville where they would begin to explore Uncharted territory. They came to explore what it means […]
Above from left: Matthew, Margaret, Matt, and Eleanor Ikard. The Center for Youth Ministry Training is pleased to announce that we have hired Margaret Ikard to serve as our Development Director. Margaret has a background in development working for many years as the Middle Tennessee Director for the American Diabetes Association. For the past several […]
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on the Belmont Wesley Fellowship blog. An edited version is reprinted here with permission. by David Hollis I have been serving as a pastor for seven years. Every place I have served has offered an opportunity to work with college/university students. I am now appointed to serve as […]
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