As part of my Sabbatical in August-October of this year (grateful to Park Road for their wisdom in providing space for all ministers on staff to step away to be re-created), David Woody (of Providence BC Charleston fame) and I are planning a conference about the future of youth ministry. The youth ministry model of "if you plan it, they will come" no longer applies. Click here for an introduction to what the conference will look like. We are at the beginning stages of planning, so still more details to be ironed out.
My hope is to come out of this conference with specific ideas about the future of youth ministry and how all of us who are impacted (families, teenagers, the Church, youth ministry, youth ministers) can move forward in a productive way, instead of continuing to beat our heads against the wall about why this model doesn't work and why do juniors and seniors often disappear from youth ministry and ...
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