Haiti Advance Team
FYI blogger and Fuller grad Lars Rood, along with our friends Jeremy Zach (also a Fuller grad), Mark Oestreicher, Adam McLane from Youth Specialties, and several other ministry bloggers are heading to Haiti tomorrow.
Archive: October 2010
Mission: Right Here
How many times have you — like me — been in the van on the way back from a mission trip and said, felt, or heard from someone else, “We’ve got to do something more at home like this?”
Parenting the Teen Brain
Here’s one to pass on to parents of teenagers.
Burned out parents, burned out kids
“Parents who complain of feeling burned out at work are more likely to have kids who are burned out at school.”
Imagine Ministries
“We’re doing mission right here”
Imagine Ministries is based out of Central UMC in Fitzgerald, GA. Their group of ten people, eight youth and two adults, served in Osage in 2007. Their project was modeled after the YouthWorks work projects, …
Evolving Online Communication
The research team over at the Pew Internet and American Life Project just released their latest report on social media and young adults, which includes teenagers.
Telling the Stories
One of the things we’ve been challenged to do more of here at FYI is tell the stories — the stories of transformation in the lives of youth workers and the students they serve every day.
Heard in the Van
I spent last weekend with some of the junior highers from our church at Forest Home’s winter camp. And yes, I got to drive a van.
Unattainable Beauty
Newsweek has put together a photo gallery of “The decade’s most egregious retouching scandals,” complete with detail notes. The short summary on the title page should be enough to cause us to catch our breath and remember who we are…
Volume 6, Issue 2 FYI E-Journal
- Eddie Gibbs leadership interview
- Short-term missions and missional youth ministry
- More Essential Leadership!