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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 digitize all of our available training content dating back to 2001 and include it in their growing UrbanMinistry.org resource library. As of this month, 700+…
Read MorePart 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 how to care. We are now ready to help your students to respond, what do we do? A ministry that is very close to my…
Read MoreAnnouncing 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 beginning in 2009. After launching offices in the Southeast (Atlanta) and West Coast (Los Angeles) Regions under the leadership of Anthony Flynn and Dr. Gabe…
Read MorePart 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. Part of our programming was to feed them lunch every day. So every day for a week, they ate rice with a little bit of…
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Read MoreThink 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 helps us to take account of the issues at hand in our own backyard. Yet, for those of us serving with youth in the urban…
Read MoreReaching Hispanic Gen X
BY RUDY CARRASCO Christian leaders burdened with ministry to Hispanic youth must solve the riddle of Hispanic Generation X. By Hispanic Generation X, I refer to Hispanics living in the United States born between 1961 and 1981. I realize that Gen. X is not just about an age, but rather it’s really about an attitude,…
Read MoreDeveloping a Servant’s Heart
BY ROGER FELIPE There is a heightened concentration today on the subject of leadership. Conferences, books, tapes and sermons abound on the issue. Leadership is expressed in different avenues of life. There is corporate leadership and church leadership. Leadership on the level of student government, and the White House too. Leadership, or the lack there…
Read MoreInvesting in Your Youth
BY MARVIN JACOBO The young people of your church will catch the cell vision and principles sooner than the adults. Experience has taught us that the older the person, the greater their allegiance to program-driven institutions. In contrast, the young generation has no emotional ties to conventions and agendas. The youth will grab new ministry…
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