It’s been months since my last post. In my last post I said I was going to try and find more time to begin blogging again. That didn’t happen. Actually, I carved out time to post, I just couldn’t get into my blog. However, with the help of my friends over at Infusion not only [...]
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I’ve had a hard time finding opportunity to blog the last few months. When I have posted it has been a commercial for some of the new things we are launching at Barefoot – a la $5 Youth Ministry Training. I don’t feel bad about plugging what we are doing at Barefoot in the least [...]
Chasing Francis by Ian Cron
Posted: 14th February 2009 by Chris in Books, Church, Spirituality, TheologyAround the office at Youthfront there are a few legendary stories of people who have either been on staff or have merely stopped in a time or two over the years for a meeting or an inspirational talk or to partner in an event, say a prayer, etc.
I think most of the stories I hear [...]
Yesterday I spent the day at Barefoot Ministries participating in a writers summit with a wonderful group of people from all around the country. Some of the summit participants were old friends and current co-workers at Youthfront while a couple of the participants were people I met for the first time.
My friend Jeff Edmondson recently [...]
Prelude 2009
Posted: 3rd February 2009 by Chris in Books, Events, Theology, Training, Youth MinistryLast year Mike King and I hosted the first of what we hope becomes many micro-conferences called, Prelude. There was about 50 youth workers or so that gathered at our Youthfront Camp South to dialogue around Andrew Root’s book entitled, Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry and Sarah Arthur’s book entitled, The God-Hungry Imagination. It was a [...]
Shaped By The Story, by Michael Novelli
Posted: 3rd February 2009 by Chris in Books, Training, Youth MinistryI read Michael Novelli’s book, Shaped by the Story: Helping Students Encounter God in a New Way a few months ago when it released. I’m finally getting around to posting about it. Don’t let my tardiness be a reflection on his wonderful work. After all, there were nearly two months when my blog was dark.
Before [...]
I am turning in my manuscript to YS/Zondervan tomorrow. Therefore, I am going dark for the month of December to focus any and all of my writing (mostly editing at this point) to my forthcoming book, Story, Signs and Sacred Rhythms: A Narrative Approach to Youth Ministry.
Depending on how I like not blogging during the [...]
I came across a book I think many of you might find helpful. It is called, The Cow Of No Color: Riddle Stories and Justice Tales from Around the World.
As far as I can tell, it is a fairly obscure book (Amazon rankings don’t always mean a book is or isn’t obscure — #423,247 as [...]
For a couple of years now I have been developing the framework for a narrative/missional (missio dei) approach to youth ministry. We’ve been articulating this approach in our one-day training experience called, Enroute all over North America.
The framework (shown below) is not only the root of the training experience but it also provides the basis [...]
A few years ago I bumped into a series of books in a collection from The Pilgrim Press called, Youth Ministries Alternatives. Youth Ministry Alternatives provides “resources of theological integrity rooted in real congregations.” It is a good line of books and I have found the books to be just as they suggest [...]