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NYWC (ATL) Post Five

2 Comments 18 November 2007

Chris Folmsbee presented in one of the “Super Seminars.” His was all about a narrative approach to youth ministry. As a youth pastor who has been deeply shaped by narrative theology and is in turn beginning to use narrative theology in youth ministry I was naturally drawn to his seminar. That and [...]

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NYWC (ATL) Post Four

5 Comments 18 November 2007

Phyllis Tickle spoke at the general session the second day of YS. She gave us a brief survey in church history of what she called “rummage sales,” that is those times of major upheaval in the church, usually when something huge in the prevailing culture challenges the church’s assumptions about reality, etc. It [...]

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NYWC (ATL) Post Three

No Comments 18 November 2007

Mike King led a break out session that covered a lot of the same ground he covered in his book Presence Centered Youth Ministry on Saturday morning. Mike’s calling to those in youth ministry (and to be honest Christians in general) is to take care of our souls and find ways and rhythms in [...]

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NYWC (ATL) Post Two

5 Comments 17 November 2007

Shane Claiborne was tonight’s general session speaker. These speakers are usually the “big guns” and are charismatic, charming, well polished, impressive… you know, the kind of speakers that make you wish you were way better at speaking or preaching. And as we all know Shane Claiborne just wrote a book in the past [...]

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NYWC (ATL) Post One

4 Comments 17 November 2007

National Youth Worker’s Conference is something I’ve wanted to go to for years and this year I am finally here! A bunch of youth staff and shepherds came out from our Church together. We left Allentown at 5am to get on a plane from New Jersey to Atlanta and it’s been non-stop ever [...]

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New Film: Darfur Now

No Comments 03 November 2007

Over and over again at the holocaust museum I saw the phrase “Never Again.” Well it’s happening again… what can we do? How can we as Christians respond in a way that is faithful to Jesus (that is, without bombs)? Send to Facebook