Archive October 14, 2010

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Parents: More Than Checkbooks and Chauffeurs

How can we avoid the too-common fallacy of omitting parents from our missions and justice work? This sample from Deep Justice Journeys includes some ideas for re-engaging parents beyond asking for their money and driving skills.

Facebook Talk About Deep Justice Journeys

Lately we’ve been posting discussion questions on our FYI Facebook page surrounding Deep Justice Journeys.  These are questions that helped drive the conversations surrounding the development of the curriculum, a conversation we hope will continue to grow.  Here are …

Telling Our Stories

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 …

God in Others

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 .

Love Up Close

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 …

Churches Before-During-and-After Missions More Than Just "Isn't That Sweet...?"

A curriculum excerpt from Deep Justice Journeys designed to help you engage your whole church before, during, and after you mission trips with students.

Helping Students Own Justice, Part II Using Student-Created Videos to Spur Action

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.

2.93 Steps Back

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!…

Over on the YS blog

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!…

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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 …

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