Category: Youth Ministry
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No One Believes in Social Injustice
Tim Challies has a great article on his blog that addresses the question of what people mean by the term social justice. He’s done a good bit of research on this. No one is arguing against justice. You don’t hear people on the streets chanting, “No injustice, no peace!” or “What do we want? Injustice!…
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A GenZ Perspective
I asked former Youth Commission member Jolie Crunelle to share some thoughts on her generation and how the church can best minister to them.
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The Future of the Church
The most recent issue of our Diocesan News contains the following article. I am posting it here for your consideration. The future is always on my mind. I literally can’t stop thinking about the future of the church, our society, our nation, and our world. Everything around us is changing at a continually accelerating pace.…
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An Interview With Aaron Buttery
Aaron Buttery is the Youth Minister at Christ Church Plano, Canon for Next Gen Leadership for the Diocese of C4SO, and Student Ministries leader in the ACNA Next Generation Leadership Initiative team. Hunter Myers, Student Ministry Director at our cathedral interviewed him and gave me permission to post that here.
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Helpful Articles For Re-entry
Below are a few articles from around the web that are worth the time. I’ve included a snippet of each. Click the titles for the whole article. Intergenerational Worship During COVID19 • Those leading from the platform should be careful with their words when discussing intergenerational worship. The language chosen should come from Scripture (see…
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The Big Challenge
David Murray addresses the biggest challenges to family worship in these two posts. One is an article, the other a podcast to listen to. Article Podcast He has also written a book to help… Exploring the Bible Together David Murray This resource will help families establish and practice regular family devotions because it is realistic…
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Worship Music…
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What Would Jesus Say To Greta Thunberg?
I recently had an article published at Rooted about the Swedish 16 year old climate change activist. In the process of changing my email address I could not share it here but finally got logged in and can share it now. Ever since Greta Thunberg made U.S. headlines in September speaking to the U.N. Climate…
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Does Youth Ministry Need a Redesign for Generation Z?
Greg Stier wrote a thought provoking article on Christianpost.com which raises some good questions. I particularly liked his part about Gospel activism. What if you began to help teenagers see themselves as Gospel activists and their circle of friends and school campuses as opportunities for social impact? What does the Gospel have to do with…
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Will Gen Z Hold On to the Faith?
Jaquelle (Crowe) Ferris writes on the TGC blog… According to a study from LifeWay Research, 66 percent of American young adults who attended a Protestant church regularly for at least a year as a teenager say they also dropped out for at least a year between the ages of 18 and 22. These statistics are…
