Youth Week 2012 – Love the Skin you’re In! -more info
19 – 27 May
What does Love the Skin you’re in mean to the young people and adults of New Zealand? We asked our Facebook community to let us know what loving the skin you’re …
The Diploma in Presbyterian Youth Ministry is a collaboration between Presbyterian Youth Ministry (PYM), the Knox Centre for Ministry and Leadership (KCML), and the local churches, as well as the student’s chosen academic institution – either Laidlaw College or Carey Baptist College. You will find the respective prospectives below.
Adolesants are looking for a soul-shaking, heart-waking, world changing God to fall in love with, and if they do not kind that God in the Christian Church, they will most certainly settle for lesser gods elsewhere. Youth look to the church to show them something. Most of the time we have offered them pizza. -Kenda Creasy Dean
The history of primarily calling inexperienced and inadequately trained young people to do youth ministry reflects the myth that youth ministry is a beginner’s job that doesn’t require much education, experience or skill. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Youth ministry is one of the most demanding ministries – so demanding and frustrating that many pastors and congregational leaders don’t know what to do- Roland Martinson
If you don’t have kids, it’s our strong recommendation that you’d keep your parenting advice to yourself. In fact, why don’t you write all your great advice down somewhere and take a look at it when your third kid is ten years old. Then you’ll have an understanding for how naive you were; but at least you’ll be glad you kept silent years earlier.- Doug Fields
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