• Home
  • PYM
  • Congregational Consultancy

  • PYM

  • Latest News

    Easter Camps 2012
    Kiwieaster
    Diploma in Presbyterian Youth Ministry
    Safety in Youth Ministry
    Going Global
  • Easter Camps 2012

    A map of all Easter Camps happening in New Zealand 2012..  If your easter camp is not on the map, please send details to me:  gordon@pym.org.nz

    Read More
    Kiwieaster

    As you may know, the Presbyterian Church puts out a Lenten study, and this year PYM was asked for input. So, after much prayerful consideration, we are offering a service that shares the Easter story in real time through texts, Facebook or Twitter messages: we’re calling it Kiwieaster. Subscribers will be pulled into the dramatic …

    Read More
    Diploma in Presbyterian Youth Ministry

    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.

    Read More
    Safety in Youth Ministry

    It is our responsibility to ensure the safety of OUR YOUNG PEOPLE and OURSELVES, AS YOUTH
    LEADERS, in youth ministry.

    Read More
    Going Global

    an opportunity for young adults to join in a cross-cultural experience- participating inGod’s mission.

    Read More

  • Youth Ministry Quotes

    quote openAdolesants 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 offquote closeered them pizza. -Kenda Creasy Dean
    quote openThe 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’quote closet know what to do- Roland Martinson
    quote openIf 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 silequote closent years earlier.- Doug Fields

Congregational Consultancy

Carlton is available to consult with your key leadership, session, and congregation about ministry to young people and young adults.

This can happen in at different levels:

It might be a conversation with a minister whose church is interested in exploring youth ministry and wondering about where to begin. Initial conversations are sometimes about exploring the possibilities and opportunities and the way forward to make these a reality.

It could be a presentation to your session/parish council that gets them thinking about youth ministry in new ways and facilitates a conversation about how to move forward. T

The consultation might be at a wider congregational level that provides a clearer sense of the openness and willingness of a congregation to make required changes or explore potential opportunities or to reassess you do what you do when it comes to ministry with young people and young adults.

You might already have a core group of young people would like some input into how you might be more strategic as you engage young people or how youth ministry can become more sustainable. Questions of sustainability also need to be asked in relation to employing a youth worker and areas of best practice and having realistic expectations.

The level of consultancy might involve rethinking and critiquing your current church culture that can either hinder or strengthen your ministry to and with young people. This is about the culture and environment that youth ministry takes place in. PYM wants to see churches where young people thrive in their faith and life.

Some conversations have been on the topic of ministry to young adults and whether to start a new service or is there a better integrated approach. Some of these conversations tap into Carlton’s doctoral research on the faith journeys of young adults.

Presbyterian Youth Ministry
© 2011 pym.org.nz