On Saturday we hosted about 230 youth workers and students at Youthfront in cooperation with Youth Specialties for their CORE Training. It was great to connect with so many like-minded people!

Dave Ambrose was the presenter. Dave did a very good job. His flight was delayed a couple of hours so we began a couple hours later than the anticipated 9AM start time. It was all good… The youth workers in attendance, as you would expect, were very cool about the delay making the most of it by being flexible as only youth workers can by connecting with others in meaningful conversation and participating in a Lectio Divina experience that one of our staff (Jamie Roach) led from the gospel of Luke. It was very cool.

(Me, Dave Ambrose, Rivers Partin, Jamie Roach, Mike King)

I had heard from a few that the CORE: Generation Change content wasn’t that great this year. I disagree. I didn’t sit in on all of the training but the training I was in on was very good. I think the content was meaningful, helpful and very effective. If you haven’t already taken your volunteers or student leaders and you are in a part of the country where they haven’t yet been, you should consider taking them.

I was pleased to see how closely aligned (thematically) the Generation Change content is with what we are doing with Enroute, our one-day training experience. I love that so many of us are thinking similarly and that the thinking is working itself out into training that inspires and equips volunteers and students toward an aligned passion and cry for change.