by Lesleigh Carmichael 1/31/18 Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week. —Charles Richards The Challenge of Time Management in […]
by Jacob Fasig If you recruit volunteers to just show up, then you can’t be mad when everyone leaves the church when the event is over, leaving you to clean and tidy up after the tornado of activity that just flew through the building. The mind-blowing notion: if volunteers have no idea what they are […]
by Jacob Fasig One of the most important core values in youth ministry is about expectations. In fact the youth ministry in which you serve will only be as deep, as committed, and as faithful as your expectations. If your expectations are only that people show up, that’s as far as they will go. If […]
The Center for Youth Ministry Training’s Graduate Residency jumped into full swing August 6-9, 2012, with our orientation and first academic retreat of the year. This retreat laid the foundation for our community and training for the rest of the year. We want to give our partner churches some insight into what we did during […]
COURSES OFFERED FALL 2015 The following courses will be offered by Memphis Theological Seminary for students enrolled in the Master of Arts in Youth Ministry degree program (this includes all CYMT graduate residents) during the Fall 2015 semester. They are offered in retreat-based format on the campus of Memphis Theological Seminary. All residents will take […]
by Kris Konsowitz The discussion on appropriate dress can be taken to extremes by both youth ministers and churches. I was recently told of such an extreme experience by a young youth minister who was taken shopping by an older church member. The student was measured for a serviceable blue blazer, khakis and, surprisingly, a […]
by Andrew Zirschky Jumbo shrimp. Live recording. Pastor’s day off. They’re all oxymorons—figures of speech crafted from contradictory words that make us chuckle when we slow down to consider them. Then there is “practical theology.” While some might find practical theology to be a humorous oxymoron, it’s actually the foundation of how the Center for […]
What is the most powerful form of communicating the Gospel? Preaching? Teaching? Studying scripture? While all of those are adequate, I believe that the most powerful form is testifying and witnessing to God’s work in our lives, because testimony gives life to those words. Testimony is the electricity that passes the current of faith from […]
Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from It Happens: True Tales from the Trenches of Youth Ministry, edited by Will Penner. by Hank Hilliard It was a fragile situation that was teetering on the verge of chaos. More than 100 young people had descended upon the church gymnasium preparing to depart on our annual youth […]
Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from It Happens: True Tales from the Trenches of Youth Ministry, edited by Will Penner. by Mark Montgomery I pick up the phone, glad to hear that it’s John, a pastor friend of mine from one of the local churches I support. After the usual catch up about family […]
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