The Importance of Friends and Generosity
I LOVE this recent blog by the Harvard Business Review about the importance of friends – being a good friend, being generous to your friends, etc.
Research into Resources
I LOVE this recent blog by the Harvard Business Review about the importance of friends – being a good friend, being generous to your friends, etc.
Irene Cho, our awesome FYI teammate, let me know last week about a new show on MTV called “If You Really Knew Me”…
Note: This article is an adaptation of chapter three of The Promise of Despair: The Way of the Cross as the Way of the Church (Nashville: Abingdon, 2010). This excerpt was extracted and edited by Jonathan Davis.
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Wow. I had such a great time at the reunion of youth group kids from the 80′s and 90′s at my old church, San Diego First Assembly of God…
Yesterday I was walking around my alma mater. As much as I loved my time in college, and am grateful for the amazing friends I had and growth I experienced (believe me, the two were closely linked), I find that…
Can students in your youth ministry really make an impact on the world? Using an international Transformational Development model, David Russell shares what can happen when we re-cast youth ministry and kids catch on.
What do we really think about the church, and does it make a difference in the way we do youth ministry? Kara Powell and Brad Griffin argue here that our ecclesiology matters immensely for youth workers, and make practical suggestions for working out a new theology of youth ministry for your church.
What is social justice, and how do I know if I’m doing it—or doing it well—in youth ministry? To help you evaluate your own ministry, we’re reporting here on a collaborative effort by FYI, World Vision, Community Solutions, Inc., and the Urban Youth Workers Institute to get at the difference between average justice work and deeper justice ministry. FREE DOWNLOADABLE ASSESSMENT TOOL.
Few of us actually think suburban kids live risk-free lives, but most of what we hear about “at-risk” relates to kids who live in urban areas, in deep poverty, or in obviously harsh family environments. This article looks deeper into the oppressive forces impacting the lives of suburban kids—no less real or oppressive, but perhaps less obvious.
How do the kids in your church know when they have become adolescents? How do they know when they have become adults? As we re-think the value and necessity of rites of passage in our ministries, we may help bring clarity to these life stages and help students through the zones of identity confusion.