All About the Heart and Soul of YouthWorkers (and we're obviously doing some redesign)
Amy Valdez Barker is a long time youth minister from the North Georgia Conference. She is currently a PhD student in CE and Congregational Studies at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary working with the Vital Congregations Project. She can be contacted at amihan.valdez-barker@garrett.edu
The Bishop was calling me in the middle of the Conference Sr. High Youth Event and I was shocked. She said, “Amy, I received a phone call from a pastor attending the event and he was concerned about the message the young people were hearing.” WHAT!??!! I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, especially since…
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“You who live in the shelter of the Most High, who abide in the shadow of the Almighty, will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.” Psalm 91:1-2 Once upon a time the church’s responsibility was to raise moral beacons in communities throughout the world. In…
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What does “Spiritual Generativity” mean? In the simplest terms, it’s the passing on of our faith tradition from one generation to the next. If youth are always separated from the rest of the life of the church – how will they learn what it means to be the church as adults? How do we in…
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Sociologist of Youth Ministry – Melinda Denton Last month I asked one of the lead researchers from the National Study on Youth and Religion if theology mattered when it came to differentiating between ‘highly-religious’ teens and ‘not-as-religious’ teens. Melinda Lundquist Denton’s response was: “Theological particularity is somewhat lost at least on this generation (we don’t have data…
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On average, youthworkers can probably be most easily summed up as … [Read More...]
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In this portion of our interview with Mark DeVries and Jeff … [Read More...]
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