Lawndale
A few weeks ago I was in Chicago to speak at the Willow Creek Conference. Before I went to Willow Creek, I visited with Noel Castellanos, CEO of the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA). Noel invited me to meet with …
Archive October 14, 2010
The Kingdom Beyond Our Vision
Today’s post is a poem — one credited to Oscar Romero, a Salvadorian Roman Catholic Archbishop martyred in 1980. Truly, this Kingdom work we partner in is far, far beyond our capacity to see or reach…
It helps, now …
Diverse World
Yesterday I had coffee with a youth worker. She’s Korean, and her family came from Korea to Canada. Then her parents left Canada to serve as missionaries in Ecuador.
I said to her, “So your parents are Canadian Koreans who …
Eric Iverson Interview Doing Better Short-Term Mission Trips
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.
Best-of Deep Justice Interviews
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.
Deep Justice in a Broken World
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.
Just Worship
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.
Justice Hits Close to Home A Roundtable Panel on Inviting Parents into Our Service
In light of recent research and our commitment to the importance of parents in youth ministry, FYI invited a handful of youth pastors and short-term missions experts to help us better understand how to invite parents to walk with their students in the justice journey.
A Tale of Two Poverties Engaging Students Across the Resource Divide
Whether you’ve spent a lot of time thinking about poverty or only barely entertained its implications for you and your students, this article offers deep insights for rethinking both the ways we view and teach about poverty.
Why Ecclesiology? Imagining a New Theology of Youth Ministry for the Church
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.