Marriage isn’t easy; ministry is tough. Put the two together and things don’t get any easier. This intensive course will focus on the vulnerability of a ministry marriage and offer many positive and practical ideas on how to keep your marriage growing, even during ministry stress.
This intensive affirms the significant role that youth workers play as caring, involved adults in the lives of hurting teenagers. Marv helps listeners understand—in everyday language—what is going on behind behaviors like self injury, substance addictions, eating disorders, and bullying, and gives practical help in determining appropriate responses to some of the wild stuff students do.
In this intensive, Katie and Josh draw from more than 45 years of collective experience to share their successes and failures, as well as some very practical ideas on youth ministry. They’ll give you the strategies to build a solid foundation for a fruitful, long-term ministry and offer advice on how to enjoy the ride.
In today’s world, nothing is truly as it seems. This leads teenagers to abandon their faith as they enter college years and are caught off guard when difficult questions arise. In this session, Dan will discuss ways to pro-actively teach youth to respond to difficult questions.
This session helps prepare youth ministry staff to work more effectively with youth who are unsure about their sexual identity. Mark and Julie offer a developmental model that provides windows of opportunity to address meaning, purpose, and identity as well as provide support to those who are questioning or who identity as LGBT.
Why is it that almost 1 out of 2 graduating seniors will pick up their diplomas and ditch their faith? This seminar takes a practical look at research conducted by the Fuller Youth Institute to unearth some of the myths students believe about the gospel, the church, their family, and youth ministry that cause them to shelve their faith.
In this session, speakers will explore the importance of organization in ministry. The practical session comes out of more than 20 years of experience and will help you develop a framework of support in more than 10 important areas like risk management, communicating, budgeting, leader meetings and more.
