rvp (resource video podcast)

UYWI has added a new video podcast to it’s arsenal. With some initial videos from an interview with Dean Borgman and promising others, trainers will share from their hearts on the topics you want to hear from them on. What they would say to you, what trends they see and how to address those trends,…

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UYWI08 gallery added

170 photos from Urban Youth Workers Institute 2008 have finally been added to the site. See if you can find yourself in the photos and see what all happens at “The Party at APU” by looking through the UYWI08 Gallery. Each photo is downloadable and you can click the image to see it open up…

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Resurrecting Church

by Shane Claiborne Sat, May 17, 2008 Amid the ruins of an abandoned cathedral where homeless families were living, Shane and his community caught a fresh vision of what it means to be the Church. Let’s move beyond complaining about the Church we see, and let’s start becoming the Church we dream of. With ancient…

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CYFM reblooms as FYI

Fuller’s Center for Youth and Family Ministry has been renamed Fuller Youth Institute, and today the transition became official. FYI brings with it a new logo, new branding, new website, and new quality content. All the things you’ve known and loved CYFM for, you will continue to look to FYI for. And if you didn’t…

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UYWI09 Date now available

For those of you who pack up the kids, pack up the volunteers, and fly, bus, or drive to the luxurious campus at Azusa Pacific university each year; this is news you will want to hear as you prepare and budget for 2009. UYWI09 will happen at APU on May 14-16, 2009. So now you…

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“Segregation on Sunday” article

A new CNN article brings to light with America’s preference to be segregated on Sunday morning (at church). Read through the CNN article to see how race is impacting individual church experiences and some good information about interracial church norms and where we as Christians can move from “they” to “we.” – article link, Why…

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update on John Perkins

from CCDA: “(John Perkins’) surgery went very well. John is doing great, resting in his room, and will hopefully be able to go home in 2-3 days. He was told to plan on a three week recovery at home and then he can resume his “peaceful” life. Thank you, each and every one of you,…

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Pray for civil rights leader John Perkins (updated)

Dr. John Perkins, the UYWI07 speaker and founder of CCDA has been admitted to the hospital with health issues. Dr. Perkins will be undergoing surgery went into surgery today at 2pm CST 8pm EST. We ask that you keep him and his family in prayer. Check at ccda.org for updates. more JP links: – The…

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Staff Profiles Online

We’ve asked the UYWI staff a series of questions and put them online as extended profiles. So now if you wanted to know where Fred Oduyoye went to school, what John Lewis’s most unusual job was, or what Julie Herrick does when she’s not working, now you can find out. Right now we have 13…

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America’s Disappearing Fathers

I ran across this article today while researching fatherless and divorce fallout statistics in the midwest. It appears the National Center for Health Statistics has some recent national research to show some dramatic numbers in this area. These are the finding based on the Wall Street Journal article: The nation’s out-of-wedlock birth rate is 38%.…

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