Even after a year of visiting 12 locations to present our $5 Training I still get people who ask me, “Is this for real? I can really bring all my volunteer leaders to your training for only $5 a person? C’mon, what’s the catch?” Honestly, there is no catch, I promise. Barefoot is about inspiring, [...]
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Coming to Chicago (&other locations) for $5 Training!
Posted: 10th August 2010 by Chris in Events, Training, Youth Ministry2
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 [...]
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 [...]
I spent the last three days with some new friends from Nazarene Youth International. Dave Curtiss heads up NYI and does a fantastic job creating a space where youth workers from around his denomination feel welcomed, encouraged and empowered. I was deeply encouraged by the conversations and connections I had and made from within a [...]
The Altar is a contemplative Christian retreat designed for middle school, high school, and college aged students.
This year, Youthfront is partnering with Clapham Sect: Phase II, a community of student abolitionists. We anticipate God drawing us closer to Himself and into a lifelong journey of pursuing His justice.
We will join together as one body to [...]
Were hosting Merge this week at Youthfront South. So far — it has been a great week. We are three days into it and it has been fantastic to participate with the youth workers and students in the challenge of throwing ourselves into God’s Story. I have enjoyed very much listening to [...]
Dan Webster is a friend, mentor and coach to me and countless others. There have been numerous occasions where I have found myself picking up the phone to get a word of advice from Dan. Dan’s words aren’t always what I want to hear, but they are always honest and what I have needed [...]
I am in the Smokey Mountains (Gatlinburg) of TN this weekend speaking at a retreat called Encounter. There are a bunch of students and youth workers here, mostly from Northern Alabama as the retreat is a gathering of churches from The Northern Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church.
I am speaking about my book, [...]
Mike King and I are hosting a small(er) gathering of youth workers at our YouthFront South Camp this coming spring — April 23-25. This gathering is in cooperation with Brian McLaren and his Every Thing Must Change conference.
I am excited about this gathering for a couple of reasons. First, it will be only [...]
As I expected, the NYWC in Atlanta was a great experience. I am guessing I am probably the last to post about it considering we are already two days beyond it.
Aside from the three seminars I facilitated, I had the opportunity to do a bit of consulting in Atlanta. My schedule was tighter [...]