One of the ways we learn best at FYI is by listening to youth workers tell us their stories — stories about deeper ministry practices, stories about transformed kids, families, and communities. This is core to our research, actually, to …
I really like and respect Dave Livermore. Dave is the Executive Director of the Global Learning Center at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary and the author of 2 great books: Serving with Eyes Wide Open, and the brand new .…
Guest blogger April Diaz is an FYI Advisory Council member and serves as the Next Gen Pastor at Newsong Church in Irvine, CA.
Love can’t love from a distance. I’ve already been asked a few times “why are you adopting …
A curriculum excerpt from Deep Justice Journeys designed to help you engage your whole church before, during, and after you mission trips with students.
Last month we invited Jesse to share about his church’s journey in leading students into acting justly. This month Jesse gives some hands-on advice for using technology to tell stories through the medium of video.
Guest blogging at YS today about students taking 3 steps forward and 2.93 steps back in our attempts at short-term missions. Check it out and join the conversation!…
Adam has a great post about Deep Justice Journeys today. We’re excited about the leverage around the book release…and even more excited about the important conversations and Kingdom re-visioning that’s happening around short-term missions!…
And the Oscar Goes To…
OK, not really, but we do have a pretty cool video about our new FYI book, . I especially like how Paul, our video guy, superimposed the graphic on the church parking lot.
We hope …
As I blogged about yesterday, this past weekend 30 kids from my church participated in a poverty simulation. When we debriefed the experience together, here were some of their insights:
– A new empathy for folks asking for money. As …
This past Saturday I joined 30 high school students from my church for a poverty simulation. The kids and adult leaders gathered on Friday night, at which point they were told that they were going to lose all of their …
