SPEAKERS AND ARTISTS

Deep Ministry in a Shallow World

(Critical Concerns Courses (continued))

Oct 10 8:30 AM-11:30 AM

Sacramento

Do you ever feel like you’re working hard in youth ministry but you’re not reaching your full potential? Do you ever feel like you’re splashing around in the shallow end with kids instead of living out the deep ministry of God’s kingdom adventure? In this Critical Concerns Course, Chap Clark, Kara Powell, and Megan Hutchinson will share the insights of the latest research and perspectives on youth ministry, gleaned from the work of the Fuller Youth Institute, and offered in Chap and Kara’s best-selling books, Deep Ministry in a Shallow World and Deep Justice in a Broken World, as well as Megan’s eight-step recovery program, Life Hurts God Heals. This interactive training is for everyone who wants to take their ministry to deeper levels. You’ll learn to use the Deep Ministry model, critically assess your current ministry, and discover how to incorporate new ideas into your ministry setting that will take your ministry deeper in purpose, leadership, discipleship, teaching, justice work, mentoring, and engagement with kids and culture.

Going to the Next Level: Reframing Your Youth Ministry

(Seminar Series #2)

Oct 11 8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Sacramento

Ask any veteran youth worker: Youth ministry is a moving target. Just when we have one class or group figured out, something happens that can change everything. Or from one year to the next, we can’t seem to keep the same momentum going. How do we create a core understanding of youth ministry and frame our ministry to handle the changes that constantly bombard us? This session will help us to determine who and what we are called to be as God’s representatives to our students.

The Latest Research That Should Impact Your Youth Ministry

(Seminar Series #5)

Oct 12 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Sacramento

This seminar will be a time of dialogue concerning new research, data, and issues that are and will have an impact on youth ministry practice, philosophy, and theology. Come, dream, wrestle, and add to an agenda that might include everything from new theories on brain development, learning theory, and the three stages of adolescence/emerging adulthood, to books and debates regarding incarnational/relational youth ministry, sociological research, practical theology, and some kind-of-out-there-but-still-pretty-cool approaches to the ministry call and task, such as narrative theology and creation theology. We might even get into how and why new ways of thinking need to be front and center in our ministry thinking and practice.

Deep Justice in a Broken World: Helping Students Serve Others and Right the Wrongs Around Them

(Seminar Series #6)

Oct 13 9:00 AM-10:30 AM

Sacramento