I don’t think I am an alarmist. The word ‘departing’ in the title of this post may appear that I am but to me, the word ‘vanishing’ was to excessive. Another word that came to mind was ‘deserting’ and that just didn’t seem fair.
At any rate, today I got news via a friend’s email that [...]
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Youth Ministry & the Departing Youth Worker
Posted: 30th April 2009 by Chris in Consulting, Just a thought, Leadership, Youth Ministry4
Working as a Team
Posted: 11th March 2009 by Chris in Consulting, Leadership, Training, Youth MinistryBelow is a recent email I received. Maybe some of you can help out Richard with your years of experience and expertise. I’ve given him some of my quick and brief thoughts below.
Hi Chris,
I know you do consulting with YS. Can you help me out? I’m in my first year of youth ministry and I’m [...]
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 [...]
I spent the last couple days in Pittsburgh at the National Youth Workers Convention. I had a fantastic time connecting with old and new friends.
My seminars were definitely a highlight. I did a critical concerns course on Thursday and Friday with my friend Kelly Lashly who is a youth ministry prof over at Sioux Falls [...]
Thursday night I was in Kansas City speaking at a church for my new friend Casey Kapple. Casey is the youth minister at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Overland Park, KS. Before his current position at Emmanuel, Casey was on staff at Youthfront for almost 4 years. It was great to get some [...]
I have been doing consulting with churches and organizations on and off for a couple of years now. I have come to love consulting as much as anything else I do these days. In some ways, I think that consulting with churches and organizations might be my greatest contribution to the Kingdom. [...]