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Imagine What Jesus Would Say to You Today

by Dr. John Perkins West Coast Conference 2010 - General Session 6 download here
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“I am my School” and other Student Prayers for New York

Goliaths fall when adults like Saul get out of David’s way. For the last twelve months, student leaders from greater New York have proven this truism time and again. Now...
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UYWI West Coast – Early Bird $79 deadline is Thursday

Tomorrow, Thursday April 15th, is the Early Bird Deadline. The conference cost is $79 right now, but after Thursday it will go up to $99. Are you coming?
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Webinar Recording: Faith Based Leadership

Did you miss today's Webinar? Watch the recorded broadcast here:
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Part 4: Think Gobally, Act Locally: Teaching Your Urban Youth to See the World

By Leneita Fix About four years ago a good friend of mine from The Acts 2 Ministry in Roanoke, VA called me with a proposition. “Do you think that I...
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Free for All: Youth Specialties Features UYWI’s Innovative Resource Library

In UYWI's ongoing effort to make youth ministry training resources more accessible to urban youth workers, we forged a partnership in 2009 with "Jesus, Justice, and Technology" innovators Techmission to...
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Part 3: Think Gobally, Act Locally: Teaching Your Urban Youth to See the World

The tragedy in Haiti as well as others around the world is very real and large. We have been working for the last couple of weeks on teaching our students...
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Announcing UYWI Northeast

In an ongoing effort to bring training resources closer to where urban youth workers actually serve young people, Urban Youth Workers Institute began implementing various training and mentoring initiatives regionally...
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Part 2: Think Gobally, Act Locally: Teaching Your Urban Youth to See the World

by Leneita Fix Two summers ago in a day camp for inner city Middle School students we decided to do a little experiment to help the youth see the world....
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Favorite Super Bowl Ads for Teens?

Here is what teens ranked as their favorite commercials.
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Think Gobally, Act Locally: Teaching Urban Youth to See the World

by Leneita Fix "How often have I heard the phrase: “Think Globally, ACT locally!” This is a way that we are asked to think about the world around us. It...
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