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5 Ways to Effectively Engage Your Community – Rudy Carrasco
Trainer: Rudy Carrasco Mobilize your circle of influence (your friends, your youth, your supporters, your volunteers) to serve where your community needs it most. Schools, churches, social service agencies, businesses...
Bible Study Series: Thanks A Lot
Are you students struggling with practicing the spiritual disciplines? This Bible Study Series will take you and your students on a journey of spiritual formation. Help your students learn what...
Evan Hairston – Revolucion Juvenil
Because of UYWI Reload events, the leaders in my youth ministry and I have been blessed by being equipped with great resources and teachings to lead our urban youth better!...
Devotional: The Power of Sacrifice
Sacrifice is an intriguing term. The value of it’s meaning is hugely dependent upon the context of its use. When you first hear the word, what might quickly come to...
Video: Work on Your Defense
1 Peter 5:8 "Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour." RELOAD joins CCDA's West Michigan Regional Conference featuring general...
Devotional: Two are Better than One
One of the forgotten truths outlined throughout Scripture is the value God and people placed on community. God has always had a heart for community, so much so that he...
Producing Young Leaders in Ministry
1 Timothy 4:12 "Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity." Share this verse...
Discipleship: Leading Others by Following God
As a child, we used to play this game called “Follow the Leader”. The objective of the game was to mimic whatever the person that preceded you modeled. The person...
Devotional: Making the Impossible Possible in 2013
The Gospel of Luke chapter 1 is an intriguing story. It opens with two prophetic miracles that would transform culture, the birth announcement of John the Baptist and of Jesus...
Self Improvement: The Struggle to Change
We all desire lots of changes, but fail to execute them. Just ask Paul: "I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not...
Finishing the Year Strong and Starting the Year Right – Larry Acosta
Trainer: Larry Acosta, Urban Youth Workers Institute Join Dr. Larry Acosta for our new "Lead Like" series where we will be conversing about some of the strategic things you can...
Chicago School-to-Prison Report
Project NIA is an advocacy center with a mission to address youth crime with restoration rather than incarceration. The study in Chicago found that 20% of all juvenile arrest were school-based;...
