This is a complimentary MattCleaver.com public service announcement for all those youth ministry types who are more likely to check their RSS readers than their calendars: Today from 11:00 AM – Noon Pacific Time is the National Youth Workers Convention conference call with Marko. I’m not sure if it’s still too late to register for […]
Youth Ministry Compensation
I’m about to start a series of blog posts in the near future on traits and habits of a successful youth minister, and as I was brainstorming for those posts I got to thinking about the nature of a full-time professional youth minister. And, just like almost any other church staff position, youth ministry really […]
Further Thoughts on Youth Ministry 3.0
Last week I wrote a review of Youth Ministry 3.0 by Mark Ostreicher where I criticized the book’s lack of theological and philosophical engagement. Instead, the book focused mostly on cultural shifts and how youth ministry has not adapted to this latest shift. My argument was that the shift that is occurring goes much deeper […]
Best Youth Ministry Books: Youth Ministry 3.0 by Mark Ostreicher
Yesterday I finally read Youth Ministry 3.0 by Mark Ostreicher, and since I’m one of the latecomers to the conversation I won’t summarize the book too much. Marko has linked to tons of reviews on his blog if you are interested in more in-depth summaries. If you are fairly in-tune with a lot of the […]
Join the YouthMinistry Twibe
Looks like the whole Twibe thing might be taking off. Although functionality is pretty low right now (they say they are developing it), essentially it is a way to create groups on Twitter. I started a YouthMinistry twibe. To join, just tweet “Just joined a twibe. Visit http://twibes.com/youthministry to join” and you will automatically be […]
My Suggestions for Youth Specialties
During his interview on Friday’s Life in Student Ministry Podcast, Mark Ostreicher made a comment about how Youth Specialties is trying to figure out how they are supposed to transition into Youth Ministry 3.0 type of mentality with their National Youth Workers Convention and approach to publishing. Other people can comment on the NYWC, but […]
Exemplary Youth Ministry Online Seminar
I received the following as an email from my seminary and thought I would pass along the information to those who might be interested. The Exemplary Youth Ministry Study is a pretty ground-breaking study in the field of youth ministry. If you are a full-time youth worker and unfamiliar with this study, this might be […]
Tax Day Tea Parties and Churches
I watched in interest yesterday as the whole Tea Party phenomenon unraveled throughout the day. I was hoping to make it to one to see what actually was happening at these events, but none of them were hosted at a good time or location for me to go. Throughout the day, I listened to a […]
A New Metaphor for Church
On Sunday I linked to Adam McLane’s post on using a new metaphor for small churches by shifting from business to farming language. I would like to propose another possible way of describing a community of faith that has been on my mind lately. Recently, we have had a lot of sports conflicts with various […]
Want a Free Theological Resource for Ministry?
Free Resource Suggest an idea in the comments for a free theological ministry resource My current online course at Luther Seminary is “Overview of Christian Teaching,” an introductory theology class. As part of our final project we can either take an exam, write a 9-12 page paper, or do some project that can be used […]
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