Later this morning, Youth Specialties will officially make this announcement, but I wanted you to hear it here at Pomomusings first: Tic Long is now returning to Youth Specialties and will serve as the new Executive Director.
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For those of you who are youth ministers in mainline churches, you’ve probably been in charge of Confirmation class. I grew up in a Presbyterian church for awhile, but left around middle school (to join the ranks of the Nazarenes for awhile), so I have never had the opportunity to go through Confirmation.
I share the [...]
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I came into a youth ministry program that played a lot of youth group games. And I am probably one of those youth ministry types that…well…don’t tell anyone, but I’m not a huge fan of games. So I immediately thought, “This should be interesting…”
It’s not that I hate playing youth group games (in fact, here [...]
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If you know me at all, or have been around me when I’m planning youth group, one of the parts that I always struggle with is coming up with games. I think it’s important to have a theology of play and I know that games can be fun and contribute to the formation of community, [...]
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I spent today in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco with 8 of our middle school and high school youth. We went into San Francisco to serve lunch and dinner at Glide Memorial United Methodist Church. The youth did an awesome job serving over 700 meals at lunch and close to 800-900 at dinner. If [...]
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Obama has called for a service initiative called Renew America Together. They ran a video contest to get the word out about what service is and why it’s important to different people. I thought it would be a good chance to try out the Flip minoHD and get the youth together to do something creative. [...]
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Please continue the conversation on this post, but I thought you might be interested in seeing what the readers of the Youth Specialties’ blog are saying about this post here.
Now that I’m getting back into youth ministry again, it’s been an interesting process to get brought up to speed with some of the many new [...]
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[Below is a sermon I preached this past Sunday - which happened to be a focus on Youth Ministry here at Asbury UMC during our Stewardship season. The Psalm from the Lectionary lent itself to the theme of "storytelling" - so I went that direction. The text was Psalm 78.1-7.]
1 Give ear, O my people, [...]
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Whenever you start a new position at a church, one of the first things to do is learn and listen about the rituals and practices of the community you’re coming into. Soon you’ll know what sacred cows you can’t really touch for awhile and which ones you might want to tweek. When I first heard [...]
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One conversation I had many times this past weekend was about how to “rethink” the way we do youth ministry. While many people have been rethinking youth ministry for awhile, it’s still a pretty hot topic among some of my recent seminary graduate friends.
This is something I struggle with a lot – my desire to [...]
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It was 6 years ago, that I had just started my job as Director of Youth Ministries at Living Waters Presbyterian Church in Wendell, ID. After being there for just a couple months, a few of us from the church drove through the night from Wendell to get to Sacramento for the National Youth Workers [...]
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This past Wednesday, Christian students from across the nation gathered at middle schools and high schools and prayed. This was part of a project that has been going on since 1990 and brings Christian students together on their campuses and encourages them to pray: See You At the Pole (SYATP).
I’m pretty sure while I was [...]
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