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Number: YPAS 3455

Name: Current Issues in Youth Ministry

Instructor: Shared Course (Intro)

Section: IS

Credits: 3

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Course Description:
This course investigates key issues facing youth pastors. Key topics include contemporary youth culture movements, challenges to youth ministry, and the foundations of ministry in the face of a hostile or indifferent age.

Course Goals and Objectives:
1. Be familiar with key issues facing youth pastors in contemporary society;
2. Be exposed to and discussed important movements in contemporary youth culture;
3. Understand challenges facing youth ministry;
4. Understand the unique environment faced by the contemporary church;
5. Understand the characteristics needed in for effective youth ministry;
6. Develop a personal support structure of information and resources for youth ministry.