By Dr. Nancy Going, Director of the CYF Distributed Learning Program at Luther Seminary
If you've tracked
Fuller's Sticky Faith Initiative
at all, you would quickly see that the study results call the church to real changes in youth ministry practice. In fact, those changes are remarkably similar to the ones that Luther Seminary's EYM study also encouraged. The bottom line is, many people in the church are talking about how youth ministry needs to change. And they are all
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As we explore confirmation, here is a resource to move the dialogue into action.
Your ministry is a game worth playing in this life, and we want to help you set yourself up to win. There’s a great deal at stake! The goal-setting process below is to help you take what you’ve learned and design a way to bring it to life in your ministry: create a “winnable game”.
By Dr. Nancy Going, Director of the CYF Distributed Learning Program at Luther Seminary
And that would be in people.
- Not in things running more smoothly.
- Not in a calendar.
- Not do they like the curriculum better.
Why not, for one year, focus your goals for ministry on observing Holy Spirit led change in your student's lives and way of engaging with their faith and with the world. What activities with them might bring you to that goal?
Why not engage your volunteers with
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See this video of Pastor Nancy Lee Gauche and Coach Tom Langemo take us through the game plan process at
Monkey Business: A First Third Dialogue on the Confirmation Process.
As you live into the Messy Reality of Young People and Faith, here's a resource for meeting your youth where they are at.
John Roberto's book, Faith Formation 2020: Designing the Future of Faith Formation, includes this chart of four scenarios. See the strategies for engaing in faith development for each person, no matter where they are coming from.
Further Reading:
Bet you've got your head down now! We know you are working hard on getting all kinds of things ready for "Back to School."
Including Confirmation.
At FirstThird.org, we're going to use this month to keep pushing what you might be thinking about how you are going to approach this critical ministry with your youth. It's critical not because of what you do together on any individual Wednesday night (or whenever you have your time together). It's critical because
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Monkey Business: A First Third Dialogue on the Confirmation Process
The dialogue was held Feb. 27-29, 2012
Pre-Dialogue Resources
At the Dialogue
By Dr. Nancy Going, Director of Children, Youth and Family Distributed Learning Program at Luther Seminary
The answer when it comes to what to do about Confirmation might not be what you think. It’s harder. But it’s better.
And the stories are starting to come back. People who attended the
FirstThird Dialogue on the
Monkey Business
of confirmation
are working on creating change across the church. They are no longer willing to ignore the fact that we are
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By Pastor Nancy Lee Gauche, Children, Youth and Family Ministry Program Associate at Luther Seminary
There is a remarkable story about a person named Anne Mahlum. Anne is a runner and she passed by a homeless shelter every morning on her daily run. She began to develop rapport with the men outside on the corner. What started out as waves and smiles from a distance became more intimate as they developed a comfort level with one another. And one morning a simple idea stopped her in her
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See this video of Pastor Nancy Lee Gauche and Coach Tom Langemo take us through the game plan process at Monkey Business: A First Third Dialogue on the Confirmation Process