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Brad will share his experience and strategy for staying at one place for the long term. This practical presentation and discussion will give insight into developing staying power at one place, as well as in Youth Ministry. |
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Theology usually takes a few years to catch up with technology. This class will look at some of the pressing issues of what technology is doing to our souls. How do we navigate technology without becoming Luddites? What concepts might we look at in scripture to help in this journey? Finally it will give some tools that you can present to parents and teens to help them live a more full life. |
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Middle School students have the ability and desire to grow deep in their faith while serving others around them. Let's capture these crucial years and guide the tweens into areas of courageous, sincere, and exciting evangelism! Come hear about the formation, challenges, and joys of Middle School Ministry from someone who loves Middle School students. |
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Student ministry is an adventurous journey filled with exciting moments of change (often after "office hours"), cool trips (often without adequate "married housing") and unexpected excitement (often accompanied by "toilet paper art" in your trees). The Youth Ministry (YM) life has a lot of unique benefits for marriage and family, but it also comes with some unique challenges as well. This class will discuss the old question of "his calling vs. my calling" and the many emotions wives are faced with in youth ministry like "is it alright to feel jealous?", "I feel like a single mom" and how to cope with frustrations in a healthy way. Wives will leave encouraged to look at the positives from living the ministry life (traveling, eternal difference, flexibility, leftover food!!). |
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Session B
Whether you have been in ministry for 25 years or just starting out, without proper boundaries, perspective and balance a toll can be taken out on a youth minister's marriage. This class will provide a top ten list of survival tools to assist the youth minister wives in navigating the journey of the YM life. |
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Session A
This seminar will introduce attendees to a movement that is spreading across the US. Pastor Mark Holmen, one of the leading voices for this movement will walk you through the key aspects of this movement and how it impacts youth ministry. He will also address the controversial movie Divided and the stance that the current way we do youth ministry, with youth pastors reaching and discipling students, is unbiblical and needs to be abolished.
Session B - The Faith @ Home Focused Youth Ministry
This workshop will be a "roll up your sleeves" workshop that will enable you to hear and develop different ways you can weave a Faith @ Home focus into your youth ministry. Come ready to contribute your ideas and learn from others in a think tank environment. |
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"The Case of Competing Dreams" This study considers the dream God had for his people. A great title for Isaiah might be "What could have been." God and Israel had the same dream – for Israel to lead all nations. The problem was that Israel wanted to do it their way. The application for us is clear – God's dream for each of us (in the context of a believing community) is greater than any dream the world and we ourselves can imagine.
Session B
"The Unpierced Ear" The problem with Israel is they refused to hear the voice of God. They were unwilling to obey because they were unwilling to repent. Life was what they wanted it to be. Here, we must agree with C.S. Lewis who reminds us that our problem is not that we want so much, but that we are satisfied with so little. How can we develop a "holy hunger" that allows our ears to be pierced (opened – Psalm 40:6) to hear and thus be transformed by the word of God? |
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Session B
"Supervision and Success With Youth Ministry Interns," is based on a national research study done with 111 interns from 15 universities. Their responses reveal something about what youth ministers can do to have the most positive experience with their interns. The class answers questions such as: What are the qualities of youth ministers that interns respect and appreciate?
- What experiences should interns be exposed to during their internship?
- What can youth ministers do to help their interns grow spiritually?
- When it's all said and done, what helped a student have a great internship?
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Session B
God's heart and passion for justice is often overlooked or goes unnoticed as we lead our youth groups in following Christ. This class will look at ways to teach and incorporate the theme of justice within your youth ministry. Come hear Brian Cress from the International Justice Missions (IJM) share what other youth pastors across the country are doing, share what you have done with your group and learn of some new resources available for youth ministry from IJM. |
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Session B
Ministry. Family. Free time. Personal discipleship. It's a lot to balance. Prioritizing and sticking to it takes great discipline. But the payoff is a rewarding and fruitful life for Christ. |
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Session C
Making the first two years in student ministry count. Getting started wisely and with your feet firmly planted in Jesus is the foundation to building a ministry that will truly impact lives for the Kingdom. |
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It's easy to get stuck in ministry ruts, doing what we've done before because we think the way we thought before. But, part of what it means to be created in the image of God is that we are made for creativity. We can see in new ways, utilize new tools and move in new directions. And that creativity can be an amazing tool for ministry. If you come to this seminar, get ready to push out your boundaries a bit, stretch some new muscles of creativity and think about some on new strategies for making your teaching ministry fresh again. |
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Session C
Not Rest and Relaxation like you're thinking of but the Reality and Resources of Girls ministry. Join us as we discuss the brutal realities of being a teenage girl in today's culture. As we discuss, topics such as pornography, cutting, sexual orientation, depression, and eating disorders, we will share resources that are ready and available for you. No massages or mud sliming wraps but you will receive some much needed R&R. |
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Session C
"Awaking To God's Voice" The servant songs of Isaiah make clear the redemptive purposes of God. Considering the majesty of God, why would we place our faith in any other thing or purpose? This study will consider specifically how we can discern the voice of God in our lives through the appropriate use of the disciplines of study, prayer, meditation, and contemplation.
Session D
"Accepting The Call: The Healing of Nations" God's desire is for his people to be faithful witnesses in the world for the sake of reconciling all of creation back to God. The faithful remnant prophesied in Isaiah is who we are to be. God's purposes for our redemption go beyond our personal salvation. We are redeemed in order to be a redeeming people. "Let he who has ears to hear, hear the word of the Lord." |
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Session C
This class will present the spiritual exercises of spiritual formation (like the Randy Harris-type classes already offered but contextualized for the YM wife). It is imperative that wives take the needed steps toward personal spiritual health so they can stay positive and motivated on the wild ride of YM life demands.
Session D
This class will articulate the multiple roles of the YM wife, including: wife, mom, daughter-in-law, friend, etc. The class will be presented in a panel format with participants ranging in YM years, number of children, and experiences. Multiple questions will be prepared by the moderator and then opened up for question and answer toward the end of the class. |
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Session C
This seminar will introduce attendees to a movement that is spreading across the US. Pastor Mark Holmen, one of the leading voices for this movement will walk you through the key aspects of this movement and how it impacts youth ministry. He will also address the controversial movie Divided and the stance that the current way we do youth ministry, with youth pastors reaching and discipling students, is unbiblical and needs to be abolished.
Session D - The Faith @ Home Focused Youth Ministry
This workshop will be a "roll up your sleeves" workshop that will enable you to hear and develop different ways you can weave a Faith @ Home focus into your youth ministry. Come ready to contribute your ideas and learn from others in a think tank environment led by Pastor Mark Holmen. |
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Session D
On any given day, at any given time, there is always some kind of Crisis going on in the lives of the families that you have chosen to serve, whether that crisis is real or not. We do our best to guide them through it so that they become stronger people of character and faith when it is all over. But what do you do when that crisis is in your own family and you are in the mist of the storm. What steps do you take to make sure you and your family not only survives, but come out of the crisis stronger. |
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Session D
Since November 2010, there have been 250 million new active users on Facebook alone, are you one of them? Do you use social media to stay in touch with today's generation? How does the media of today influence a teenager's life? Where are your students learning their "digital decisions"? Join us as we share creative ways to stay connected with your students in a wireless world |
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