Posts filed under ‘Leadership’
Two Days in Kenya with ONE
Article written by Bryant Shannon for Relevant Magazine
Meet Bryant Shannon, a rising junior at the University of Florida in Gainesville and co-leader of one of the top
three schools in the ONE Campus Challenge [OCC]. He studies Biological Engineering and Public Health, and has volunteered in small communities in Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize and Nicaragua to help raise
awareness about extreme poverty, HIV/AIDS, clean water, and respiratory illnesses attributable to open-air cooking. Eventually, he hopes to become a physician. While in Kenya, he looked specifically at “Challenges in
Kenyan Healthcare.”
While in Kenya, Bryant blogged for the OCC. Two of his entries—capturing what happened on the ground…
Rest of article here Two Days in Kenya with ONE
ht to our friends at Relevant Magazine
Transformers 2: Movie Review
Did you take kids from your youth group to see Transformers 2? Did you take them to be relevant or to teach them a lesson? Why? Brett Ullman’s video blog #46 has a specific call out to three groups of people regarding this movie. Thoughts!?!
One Question
How do we explain the unconditional love, bigness, sacrifice, take us as we are mercy and grace of God to our students? Could it be that we as youth workers have not come to the realization of who we are before God? Have we been able to come to God just as we are knowing that He accepts us? How can we expect our students to enter into this type of a relationship is we have not personally experienced this in our own lives?
What are you hearing?
Students and parents communicate so many messages to us as youth workers that we oftentimes feel overwhelmed with the content of what we are hearing. What can we do with all of these messages that we are hearing? Who do you have that cares for you? Mentors you? Refreshes your soul?
ht to our friends at Canadian Youth Workers Convention: www.cywc.com
Canadian Youth Workers Convention
New Summer Resource
ENGAGE: The Journal of Youth Culture
Topics: The Sad Reality of Sexual Abuse, Twilight: Sucking the Lifeblood out of teenagers?, What is the ‘success’ in parenting teens? with Dr. Paul Tripp, Resource Reviews, College Ministry, and much, much more…
You can also find a permanent link to this newsletter on the right hand side under BlogRoll
ht to our friends at Center for Parent/Youth Understanding (CPYU)
Youth Ministry Must Reads: Summer ’09
Here are our recommendations of Youth Ministry Must Reads for this summer. They are in no particular order. Thanks for all you do for the youth and other youth workers in your youth ministry! We know that you go above and beyond all that is required of you. On behalf of your kids, THANKS!
Drop us a comment if you read any of these books or have read them, we would love to hear from you.
The Nehemiah Factor: 16 Characteristics of a Missional Leader By Dr. Frank Page
Dr. Karyn’s Guide to the Teen Years
GOODBYE GENERATION By David Sawler
Hope And Healing For Kids Who Cut By Marv Penner
Family-Based Youth Ministry By Mark Devries
Disconnected: Parenting Teens in a MySpace World By Chap Clark, Dee Clark
