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Why Youth Ministry Matters: Teens Drug Abuse Stats & 9 Warning Signs
Fact: Students with a role-model/ mentor are: 46% less likely than peers to use illegal drugs. WebMD identified 9 Warning Signs that signal teen drug abuse to youth leaders and...
Real Holistic Ministry: Getting the Big Picture – Dean Borgman
Trainer: Dean Borgman, Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary Throughout his ministry, as Jesus interacted with lepers, prostitutes, Samaritans, Romans and many others, he was very aware of the cultural contexts of those...
UYWI ‘s First Accredited Course for Youth Workers
Join us at City Vision for 8-weeks of Youth Development Studies This course introduces students to the theory and practice of holistic youth development in an increasingly interconnected, open-sourced, urban...
Beautiful Calling
Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder... This simply means that people find different things beautiful. For instance, take a Pablo Picasso painting. One person may think it is...
Adapting Suburban Bible Studies for an Urban Context – Wendell Martin
Trainer: Wendell Martin, Ignite Ministries One of the challenges of urban ministry is finding relevant content that connects to the heart and reality of urban students. Is there a formula to help...
Motivational Monday: Fighting Child Poverty
Did you know that more than 20% of all children in the U.S. fall below the poverty rate? How about the fact that 60% of those children are black &...
Lost in Translation
This week, I am traveling to Honduras for a mission trip. While we are there will be ministering hundreds of children, teenagers and their families. My team and I have...
Motivational Monday: Erwin McManus’ “Destiny”
"The challenge is if you listen carefully to what is saying to you, it will terrify you. You'll wonder if He's talking to the right person. You'll wonder if He...
Finally Friday’s Urban Highlight: “Breakthrough”
The Miami Herald's Celina Canales reports that the Breakthrough school moves children out of poverty through education. Watch the video below to see how diversity in learning styles, community, and role...
“I Teach My Neighbors Kids”- Jeff Andrade speaks out for Urban Education
Today's Motivational Monday comes from urban education insider Jeff Duncan-Andrade. What's it like for a 12 year old, or 15 year old to continually re-engage with violence daily and have...
Finally Friday: Praying, Planning, & Empowering… for God to Move!
360 Nashville National Conference 13 Days Away! Today we're featuring one of the 360 conference workshops, "Praying, Planning and Empowering Your Urban Church for God to Move in Big Ways"...
Internal Affairs: Boost Your Ministry with Interns
When you read the term internal affairs, you may immediately begin to think of shows on television like Law and Order, SVU or NCIS. Shows like this have given the...
