YouTheology – 2012 – Sustainable Youth Ministry

YOUTH WORKERS’ GATHERING 2012 – SUSTAINABLE YOUTH MINISTRY

Join us on from 4.00 pm on Friday, March 30^th to 3.00 pm on Saturday, March 31^st as together, we discover how to build a culture in our congregations that fosters vibrant, long-lasting youth ministry and leadership as well as meet and network with other like-minded people and be sustained. Early bird fee: $50 through March 15^th. Regular fee: $60 thereafter.

YouthWorker Movement members $50 anytime.  Please indicate membership when registering.

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Leaders:

• Bishop Robert E Hayes, Episcopal Leader of the Oklahoma Area of The United Methodist Church.
• Rev Mark DeVries, national author and speaker, veteran youth minister:http://ymarchitects.com/644/mark-devries-2/.
• The team from Vocation CARE of the Fund for Theological Education, a program that helps “congregations [to] work together to help identify and support future leaders by taking action to ‘notice, name and nurture’ young members in their calling”:http://www.fteleaders.org/pages/vocationcare-practices/.
• Rev Diana Northcutt, Oklahoma Annual Conference.

What Will Participants Leave With?

• Sustainable youth ministry practices: Practices for a healthy youth ministry that lasts.
• Sustainable vocational practices: Practices that will help nurture calling among youth.
• Guidance for those now starting youth ministry.
• The start of a design to fit your context.
• Program ideas.
• Personal renewal and enrichment.