When you look at the students around you, what do you tend to see—their potential or their hindrances? Their advances or their setbacks? This second report from our Urban Youth Workers in America (UYWA) study takes a closer look at the “full-ness” and “empty-ness” of both urban kids and non-urban kids.
Kara Powell interviews Luther Whitfield, urban ministries coordinator for Youth for Christ in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and national community ministries consultant for YFC, on conducting program evaluation.
Kara Powell interviews Larry Acosta, President of Urban Youth Workers Institute, on developing strategies for ministry Fund Development.
Wondering about crossover between “Emerging Church” issues and “Emerging Urban Church” issues? FYI (formerly CYFM) hosted a panel discussion on the interface of recent movements within both circles of conversation.
Kara Powell interviews Rudy Carrasco, Executive Director of Harambee Ministries in Pasadena, CA, on Indigenous Urban Leadership Development.
Kara Powell interviews Chris Brooks on the importance of Networking and strategies for developing youth ministry networks.
Dr. Cynthia Eriksson and Dr. Tina Houston lead a three-part seminar for urban youth workers on helping kids who have experienced severe trauma.
Who are the youth you consider developmentally “at risk” in your church or neighborhood? In contrast to the individualism that has guided most work with kids who are labeled this way, Jude Tiersma Watson offers an approach based on ecological development theory and a theological principle of belonging. These insights affect the way we view ministry with ANY kind of student.
