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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?
Read MoreWebinar Recording: Faith Based Leadership
Did you miss today’s Webinar? Watch the recorded broadcast here:
Read MorePart 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 could bring a couple of our inner city youth, to serve in your city for a week?” She had this brilliant idea to help students…
Read MoreFree 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…
Read MoreFavorite Super Bowl Ads for Teens?
Here is what teens ranked as their favorite commercials.
Read MoreEdWeek: Study Finds Teen Pregnancies on the Rise
Artrticle here.
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…
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