1. Personal Leadership Development

“God has given you each some special abilities; be sure to use them to help each other” (1 Peter 4:10 LB)

The purpose of this seminar is to help you discover your own unique style as a leader, and, based on the findings, begin to lead through passion and giftedness.  We will utilize 2 assessment tools to help determine how God has designed us as leaders, and seek to gain an understanding of how others are designed as well.

Our goal is to discover some specific ways in which we can make a lasting Impact for God's glory through our leadership.

2.  Forum Discussion - "Closing The Gap" 

In the past thirty years, American churches have seen an explosion in the number of youth ministries that are available.  Christian colleges are offering degrees in Youth Ministry, and more and more students are graduating as professional Youth Pastors.  The majority of the focus of these programs is on the development of age specific ministries for the church.  In other words, many of these Youth Pastors are trained to focus specifically on either children’s ministry (typically through 6th grade) or youth ministry (typically through 12th grade).  

The underlying assumption that the church has as they hire a professional Youth Pastor is that the Biblical truths that are imparted over the period of years that the student is involved in the youth ministry will be applied for a life time, and will result in church attendance and involvement consistently throughout the students’ lives.  It is a good assumption and is definitely a driving force with most Youth Pastors, but it is becoming more and more obvious that once a student graduates from high school, they “graduate” from church involvement until sometime in their early 30’s.  The churches that have invested in youth ministry are seeing this problem as well as those churches who have done no intentional youth ministry focus.

At the "Closing The Gap" Forum we will focus on 2 questions: "Why the gap?" and "How can the gap be closed?"

Brent Carl did his Master's Degree thesis work around this topic and his research and conclusions will serve as a backdrop for this discussion.

3. Growing a Healthy Youth Ministry

"Healthy Things Grow."  This statement is true of many things, such as plants, bodies, relationships and Youth Ministries.  The goal of any youth ministry should be health, not numbers.  The bi-product of health will be numerical growth, but numbers should not be done at the expense of health.

This seminar looks at the Biblical model of ministry and how the principles that are spelled out in Scripture take shape in Growing a Healthy Youth Ministry.

4. Missionary or Tourist? - Training Your Team for Mission Impact 

The seminar includes some tools that help each team member turn the mirror on themselves and discover how God has designed them and what that means as they launch out into ministry. 

We look at Spiritual Gifts, Personality Styles, God-given Abilities, Different Experiences we've had, and try to understand how God could most effectively use the whole package for His glory in ministry (whether it be short term trip or long term ministry life). 

For more information on the "Be The Change" Seminar series contact Brent Carl

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