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Assignments
for this course take the form of written summaries,
research, and analysis. They are designed to help us
work through the course objectives, while keeping a
focus on our spiritural growth through conceptual
learning.
For each assignment, please develop a document and
submit it to me in either Microsoft Word, RTF (rich
text format), or HTML format (your word processing
software should permit you to do a "save as"
and choose either of those formats).
For each assignment, please be sure to that your
responses indicate that you have read and carefully
considered the resource material, as assigned.
Assignment
5
Effective Youth Ministry
Listed below are several articles, case studies, and
testimonies of "effective" youth pastors and
youth ministry efforts. Please cull through them with
an eye toward developing your own general model of an
"effective" youth pastor.
Develop a short (3-5 page) paper entitled: An
Effective Youth Pastor (Now!). Your paper should
reflect your personal model of an effective youth
pastor (or youth ministry effort).
To create your paper, you will need to develop in your
own mind a definition of "effective."
For example, is an "effective" ministry one
that sees lots of kids saved, or one that equips kids
to minister to the world? Is an “effective”
ministry one that works with street kids or a
well-organized youth group in an established
evangelical church?
As you are reading the paragraph above, it might occur
to you to say, "But "effective" youth
ministry can mean all of those things!"
And that is, precisely, the challenge of coming to
grips with "effective" youth ministry. It is
entirely situational. That might provide a hint to the
key to this paper: Finding characteristics of youth
ministries that are "effective" given their
situation.
Please be sure that your paper includes the following:
Your definition of "effective" in the
context of youth ministry.
A short narrative about how you arrived at your
definition of "effective."
Examples—case studies or reports-of
"effective" youth ministries. You can find
them in the links below--or elsewhere online, if you
prefer.
Testimony-based on the above—to the
"effectiveness" of the ministry involved.
Suggested Paper Format:
Part I - My Definition of "effective" in
youth ministry
Part II - How I came to understand
"effective" as it applies to youth ministry
Part III - Examples of effective (or articles about)
youth ministry efforts (and/or youth ministers)
Part IV - What about the examples or articles in Part
III indicates "effectiveness"
Links to cases, articles, and testimonies of effective
youth ministry:
http://www.youthspecialties.com/article....nal.php
http://www.becomingreal.org/stories/brian.htm
http://www.salvationarmy-usaeast.org/priorit....m
http://www.youthchurch.com/profilearchives/profiles2.php
http://www.drvc.org/youth/effective_practices.shtml
http://www.lcms.org/pages/default.asp?NavID=1696
http://www.pixi.com/~mysc/youth_ministry_philosophy.html
http://www.directionjournal.org/article/?1241
http://www.christianteens.net/eff.htm
http://www.gospelflava.com/articles/urbannetministry.html
http://www.groupmag.com/extra/ThomInterview.asp
http://www.youthspecialties.com/article....utm.php
YouthWorker Journal Home Page:
http://www.youthspecialties.com/articles/index.php
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