The following post comes from John Uldrick, minister to students at First Baptist Church, Rome, Ga., and president-elect of the CBF Youth Ministry Network. As I write this, I’m surrounded by 30+ youth ministers from Georgia to Hawaii and everywhere in between, sharing life and learning together. It is a beautiful picture of community. It … Continue reading
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Youth ministry
Servants among friends: “After all I’ve done for you”
“After all I’ve done for you ….” Many of us have used those words with our children – or heard them from our own parents! But those words came alive for our Latino youth group this summer as teens spent time interviewing their parents, hearing their stories, and sharing stories of their own. LUCHA Ministries’ … Continue reading
Servants among Friends: Reaffirming Dignity
DIGNITY – what do you hear when this word comes to mind? For us, it takes on renewed meaning each summer when LUCHA Ministries refocuses our efforts on Latino youth outreach through PROJECT 3-D. Latino youth, many from immigrant parents and/or who are immigrants themselves, hear repeatedly that they are “different from” (implying “not as … Continue reading
CBFYMN elects first slate of officers
The CBF Youth Ministry Network (CBFYMN) is a group of professional ministers and others who are called to work with youth and who relate to the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. The network strives to serve God from coast to coast within the United States as they advocate for young people – both those in our communities and … Continue reading
Who Would Miss Your Church’s Youth Ministry?
In my readings for a peer learning group, I stumbled across two quotes from Transformation by author/pastor Bob Roberts that gave me pause. For additional context, I am the interim youth minister at Forest Hills in Raleigh. A part of my responsibility here is to set the stage for a future youth minister. I am … Continue reading
a cup of noodles
I rarely go out for lunch. In fact, most of my lunches are spent quickly eating a microwave meal in the break room and discussing the day’s events with coworkers. It is actually a bright spot in my day. I would imagine that this same scene is played out in workplace after workplace. Since the devastating … Continue reading
Youth experience God at work through Mission Immersion D.C.
The following is a blog from Matthew Hensley, minister of education at Haymarket Baptist Church in Haymarket, VA and Northern Virginia regional representative on the CBFVA coordinating council. +++ “I believe that the great tragedy of the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor, but that they do not know … Continue reading
An Offer of Hospitality
Hello, My name is Randy Tullos. I have spent the last three years working to launch a new non-profit Christian Camp and Conference Center, The Smoky Mountain Christian Village in Pigeon Forge, TN. (www.tsmcv.org) We expect 2011, our first full year of operations, to be a banner year. We’re proud to be a preferred Cooperative … Continue reading
Who Are the People in Your Youth Ministry?
There’s an old Sesame Street song that poses the question “Who are the people in your neighborhood?” The simple answer is that “they’re the people that you meet when you’re walking down the street… each day.” I sometimes paraphrase the original question and pose it to myself as an evaluation: “Who are the people in … Continue reading
A Report from the Inaugural CBF Youth Workers Retreat
It was a balmy November evening in Orlando when several youth workers gathered for the inaugural CBF Youth Workers Retreat. This event was sponsored by the CBF Youth Ministry Network and led by Chanon Ross, coordinator for the Connections Project at Princeton’s Institute for Youth Ministry. Our brief time together began with the question “Who … Continue reading