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Prev 1 2 3 4 5 NextBy Kara Powell and Brad M. Griffin | March 2, 2009
This curriculum sample is taken from , co-authored by Kara Powell and Brad Griffin and released May 2009 through Youth Specialties. This activity is taken from the DURING section of the book, intended to be used with a group DURING…
By Kara Powell | July 15, 2008
Kara Powell interviews Eric Iverson from YouthWorks! about best practices in youth short-term missions. If you are preparing for an upcoming trip, Eric shares some thoughts that will be invaluable for your team.
By Kara Powell | March 6, 2008
One of the highlights of our recent justice research has been interviews we’ve conducted with entrepreneurial thinkers, youth workers, and justice leaders around the country. To jump start your thinking, we have compiled memorable excerpts from the full-text interviews available in our new book, Deep Justice in a Broken World.
By Brad M. Griffin | January 15, 2008
Training in cross-cultural communication used to be reserved for elite business leaders or career missionaries, but now it’s essential for all of us—even for your youth ministry! Check out this overview of Cultural Intelligence (CQ) and interview with Dave Livermore, CQ guru. No matter what your ministry context, this paradigm shift is guaranteed to stir changes in the way you approach cross cultural interaction.
By Kara Powell | January 8, 2008
Kara Powell interviews Dr. John Perkins, renowned justice worker who has founded a number of ministries and organizations including the Christian Community Development Association, and author of nine books. An abbreviated version of Dr. Perkins’ interview appears in the upcoming book from Kara Powell and Chap Clark, Deep Justice in a Broken World: Helping Your Kids Serve Others and Right the Wrongs Around Them.
By Jude Tiersma Watson | January 4, 2008
What is the city’s greatest hope? While God works through all sorts of leaders, perhaps the greatest hope for the city comes from those who grow up in the city and and choose to stay there as indigenous leaders. Urban practitioner and researcher Jude Tiersma Watson explores the model of urban leadership development as a way to raise up leaders in your—and their—context.
By Kara Powell and Chap Clark | December 18, 2007
What’s the difference between service and justice, and what’s the big deal, anyway? Following their highly-acclaimed book Deep Ministry in a Shallow World, authors Chap Clark and Kara Powell invite a host of key justice-minded leaders to help craft Deep Justice in a Broken World, including Jim Wallis, Tony Campolo, Jeremy del Rio, Larry Acosta, John Perkins, and more. This article offers a snapshot from the book itself—a challenge to dig deeper into what it means to truly seek God’s justice through our youth ministries.
By Kara Powell | December 10, 2007
Kara Powell interviews Lina Thompson, World Vision’s National Director for Training and Capacity Building for U.S. Programs, about talking about race with kids and adults.
By Kara Powell | November 8, 2007
Kara Powell interviews Jim Wallis, President and Executive Director of Sojourners/Call to Renewal and author of justice-seeking books such as God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It. An abbreviated version of Jim’s interview appears in the upcoming book from Kara Powell and Chap Clark, Deep Justice in a Broken World: Helping Your Kids Serve Others and Right the Wrongs Around Them.
By Brad M. Griffin | November 7, 2007
Are we more comfortable with singing about God’s love or God’s justice; with raising our hands in church or reaching our hands out to the poor and oppressed? Whether we’re uncomfortable or not, the Old Testament prophets and the example of Christ point us to a radical both/and type of worship justice. This article challenges us to think carefully about how we teach and model worship to students.
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