Intergenerational Ministry
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Posted on September 19, 2011, 8:09 am
Topics: Intergenerational Ministry
In the mind of Christ, young people are not animals, aliens or closed spaces. Those things scare us. When we are scared of them, we can’t love them. Instead, we call or yell at them from a distance to come to Jesus, come to faith and come to church, but Jesus said, “Go. . .into all the earth,” not get them to come...
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Posted on October 18, 2010, 1:18 pm | 2 comments
Topics: Intergenerational Ministry
In my humble opinion, would it not be better to work along-side the national people in their building projects giving them the ownership and the accomplishment of a job well done? We need to empower the national people!!! Perhaps they can’t afford the buy all the materials needed and we can assist financially but I think we are setting ourselves up for bigger problems if we do the work for them.
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Posted on July 9, 2010, 2:55 pm
Topics: Intergenerational Ministry
“I have nothing against adults leading youth ministries. But it seems adults just take over the youth participation. They give another class just like we have in school. Adults don’t stress that youth can be involved in activities, spiritual experiences, and worship.”
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Posted on June 15, 2010, 2:54 pm | 9 comments
Topics: Intergenerational Ministry
Elder David Stewart, Classis Columbia, said that young people need to have real roles in the church. “We have youth on every church committee,” said Stewart, who pastors the youth at Sunnyside [Wash.] CRC. “We’ve started to see a shift in the mentality. It’s becoming their church, as equals to the adults.”
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Posted on June 9, 2010, 2:12 pm
Topics: Intergenerational Ministry
What is the Changing Spirituality of Emerging Adults?
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Posted on June 8, 2010, 9:00 pm
Topics: Intergenerational Ministry
A mezuzah (Hebrew: מְזוּזָה "doorpost") (plural: mezuzot (מְזוּזוֹת)) is a piece of parchment (often contained in a decorative case) inscribed with specified Hebrew verses from the Torah (Deuteronomy 6:4-9 and 11:13-21). These verses comprise the Jewish prayer "Shema Yisrael", beginning with the phrase: "Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is One"
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Posted on May 24, 2010, 2:00 am
Topics: Intergenerational Ministry
If you work with young people in the church, it’s almost guaranteed that someone will ask you for help or advice in reaching their “wandering” child. For many good reasons, we’re deeply concerned for our children. Will they have faith? Will they stick with the church? Will they stay connected to the denomination they’ve grown up in? These concerns are especially prominent ...
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Posted on March 25, 2010, 10:14 am
Topics: Intergenerational Ministry
I wanted to know if my impressions of PI’s in youth ministry were similar to others' experiences. Did they have the same joy with PI involvement or did they suffer some of the same kind of hair-pulling frustrations? We began our discussion by struggling with the concept of whether or not PI involvement was even a good idea. We debated the issue and realized...
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Posted on February 12, 2010, 3:28 pm
Topics: Intergenerational Ministry
"I really hate that after we graduate we have to leave youth ministry” was a comment shared by a graduating student at a youth ministry event. What the student meant was that she loved youth ministry and was sad that she would have to find other potentially less exciting ways to grow in her faith in the next stage of her life. By less exciting she meant “just ...
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Posted on January 18, 2010, 3:42 pm
Topics: Intergenerational Ministry
A researcher argues that the future of youth ministry will require bringing the generations together. This interview with Kara Powell is from Leadership Journal Summer 2009.
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Posted on January 2, 2010, 2:00 am
Topics: Intergenerational Ministry
To understand integeneration ministry within the context of the Family of God - the church, we must come to a better understanding of the generations involved. Goodbye Generation is a book by David Sawler that captures the voice of today's young adults and their unbiased view of church, God, spirituality and more.
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