This morning there was a very interesting article in one of the regional newspapers here in the greater Chicago area — The Daily Herald. I was intrigued mostly by the research from Barna found within as well as some of the comments from various staff at area mega-churches.

If this home church concept continues to emerge and becomes the primary model of faith communities gathering to worship as twenty somethings and those in their thirties age, what happens to the many modern youth ministry models out there? What does youth ministry look like within this ’simple church’ paradigm? Does youth ministry go away? What do we need to change now to be ready? What must we do to prepare ourselves for a new kind of church? I would love your thoughts…

DOWNLOAD THE ARTICLE HERE: daily-herald.pdf

Or go to: http://www.dailyherald.com/story.asp?id=263163

Check out this piece from CBS news on Youth Ministry — and the video interview of Mark Oestreicher, President of Youth Specialties.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/15/
eveningnews/main2273034.shtml