Volume 4, Issue 3
May 1, 2008
Deep justice is happening.
It’s happening because you and other youth workers around the country are trusting God to help your youth ministry right wrongs around you.
To help you move into deeper relationships and conversations with students, we’re providing parts 2 and 3 of the Deep Justice and Short-Term Missions Curriculum for you to use DURING and AFTER your upcoming summer short-term mission trips (to access part 1 and get ideas for what to do BEFORE your service experiences, visit the curriculum home page). We hope this 200-page free curriculum helps you get the most ministry bang out of the bucks (and energy and time!) that your youth ministry is spending to serve the “least of these” this summer. As you use the curriculum, please take a few minutes to give us feedback by filling out the feedback survey through following the link on the Deep Justice and Short-Term Missions curriculum home page on our site.
As you’re spending time with students in short-term mission trips this summer, we will be busy getting ready for the launch of the new name and website for our Center. Starting September 2, we will be the Fuller Youth Institute (aka FYI). We’re excited about that because FYI captures our mission of keeping you informed, and it’s also a whole lot easier to remember. Don’t worry; we have the same mission of turning research into resources that transform youth and family ministry. We think our new name will help us accomplish that mission even more effectively.
You are our deep justice heroes. We love learning together with you!
Kara Powell
Kara E. Powell, PhD, is the Executive Director of the Center for Youth and Family Ministry and an Assistant Professor of Youth, Family, and Culture at Fuller Theological Seminary. She has been in youth ministry for over 20 years and is the author of many articles and books including Deep Justice in a Broken World (co-authored with Chap Clark, Zondervan, 2008) Deep Ministry in a Shallow World (co-authored with Chap Clark, Zondervan, 2006) Help! I’m a Woman in Youth Ministry (Zondervan, 2004) Mirror! Mirror! (Zondervan, 2003), and the Good Sex Curriculum Guide (co-authored with Jim Hancock, Zondervan, 2001).
Ministry Conversations Audio Download:
Interview with Dr. Kelly Schwartz—Making Sense of
Adolescent Brain Development
Brad Griffin interviews Kelly Schwartz, adolescent psychology specialist, on understanding the adolescent brain. Kelly discusses risk behavior, decision-making, video games, and allowing kids to experience and process their failures. Even as teenagers enter summer vacation and begin to seemingly unplug their brains, this is good stuff for any youth worker or parent!
Interview with Dr. Kelly Schwartz—Making Sense of
Adolescent Brain Development
Brad Griffin interviews Kelly Schwartz, adolescent psychology specialist, on understanding the adolescent brain. Kelly discusses risk behavior, decision-making, video games, and allowing kids to experience and process their failures. Even as teenagers enter summer vacation and begin to seemingly unplug their brains, this is good stuff for any youth worker or parent!
Deep Justice and Short-Term Missions Youth Ministry Curriculum Part II and III: DURING AND AFTER
by Kara Powell and Fuller Youth Institute (formerly Fuller’s Center for Youth and Family Ministry)
by Kara Powell and Fuller Youth Institute (formerly Fuller’s Center for Youth and Family Ministry)
Once again, we’re inviting you to collaborate with us on the testing and editing process for our latest curriculum project, Deep Justice and Short-Term Missions. This month we are featuring TWO downloads, both entirely FREE, that you can use with your team DURING and AFTER your missions and service opportunities this summer.
We hope you will not only download the curriculum, but will also participate in our online FEEDBACK SURVEY to help us make this curriculum better. And note that these are available for a limited time only, so download them today!
Parents who Fight, Kids who Hurt: Responding to Kids Whose Parents are in Chronic Conflict
by Kara Powell and Brad Griffin
by Kara Powell and Brad Griffin
No matter where you do youth ministry, you know kids whose parents fight, and kids whose parents fight a lot. While youth workers can’t fix all of the problems in kids’ lives, we do have a responsibility to become more aware of ways that issues like high-conflict marriages impact the daily lives of our students. This article shares insights from research and starting points for ways we can respond.
Going Green God’s Way: Implications for Your Youth Ministry
by Kris Fernhout
by Kris Fernhout
Whether you’ve thought a lot, a little, or not really at all about what environmental concerns have to do with your youth ministry, Kris Fernhout makes a strong case for why we should all join God in caring about our–and our students’–impact on the world around us.
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