http://www.anewkindofyouthministry.com/2007/05/30/canada-bears-hot-springs-golf-and-the-future-of-national-ym-orgs/ Guiding Students into Spiritual Formation for the Mission of God Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:23:29 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.anewkindofyouthministry.com/2007/05/30/canada-bears-hot-springs-golf-and-the-future-of-national-ym-orgs/comment-page-1/#comment-279 Dale Thu, 31 May 2007 06:06:01 +0000 http://www.anewkindofyouthministry.com/2007/05/30/canada-bears-hot-springs-golf-and-the-future-of-national-ym-orgs/#comment-279 very interesting thoughts. since my resignation from my current post as youth pastor in southern Alberta, i have been wondering about the idea of doing, what i have called "youth ministry consulting". Basically the concept as i see it would be to offer youth ministries my resources as an expereinces youth worker in analyzing specific contextual ministries and help them impliment strategies and system to take advantage of both the resources available and their own local context. And don't get me wrong it's not that i see myself as some kind of guru for youth ministry even in a local context but... I have seen far too many local youth ministries burn up in flames as they seek to impliment pre-fabricated systems and methodologies that do not suit thier context. I guess my idea is that each context needs a tailor made solution/cocktail of ministry systems/strategies and programming ideas in order to be effective. the rationale behind marketing these methodologies has often been the desire to help local youth ministries to avoid having to 'reinvent the wheel". Well just to day, driving home from golf course (following jr. highs around) I was thinking that it might not be such a bad thing for local ministries to go through a grassroots strategy building experience that helps them own and develop a ministry model that fits thier context. And what couldbe an even greater advantage is if they had a 'personal trainer' so to speak, who could help guide them through that process using the established paradigms and models that exist from great resource centers like Sonlife, Willow, and Saddleback. Feels like maybe some of the same thoughts might have been creeping around our cerebral cortex hmmmmm... very interesting thoughts. since my resignation from my current post as youth pastor in southern Alberta, i have been wondering about the idea of doing, what i have called “youth ministry consulting”. Basically the concept as i see it would be to offer youth ministries my resources as an expereinces youth worker in analyzing specific contextual ministries and help them impliment strategies and system to take advantage of both the resources available and their own local context.
And don’t get me wrong it’s not that i see myself as some kind of guru for youth ministry even in a local context but…
I have seen far too many local youth ministries burn up in flames as they seek to impliment pre-fabricated systems and methodologies that do not suit thier context.
I guess my idea is that each context needs a tailor made solution/cocktail of ministry systems/strategies and programming ideas in order to be effective.
the rationale behind marketing these methodologies has often been the desire to help local youth ministries to avoid having to ‘reinvent the wheel”. Well just to day, driving home from golf course (following jr. highs around) I was thinking that it might not be such a bad thing for local ministries to go through a grassroots strategy building experience that helps them own and develop a ministry model that fits thier context. And what couldbe an even greater advantage is if they had a ‘personal trainer’ so to speak, who could help guide them through that process using the established paradigms and models that exist from great resource centers like Sonlife, Willow, and Saddleback.
Feels like maybe some of the same thoughts might have been creeping around our cerebral cortex hmmmmm…

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