Posts Tagged ‘uywi’
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 & hispanic? This means that more than 16 million children go without sufficient food, shelter, and medical needs. Ways you can help: Financially: The obvious response would…
Read MoreFinally 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 models can propel students toward success. Original Post here!
Read More“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 to come to school and talk about test scores? “I can’t imagine the day after Columbine saying okay back to the books…. But that’s what…
Read MoreFinally 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” led by Crossover Church’s lead pastor, Tommy “Urban D.” Kyllonen. This workshop shares how to empower your volunteers biblically and practically with tools to dream big…
Read MoreMotivational Monday: Quotes of Influence
Quotes of Influence: Martin Luther King, Jr. “Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” Urban youth ministry is challenging and the hurdles often times seem beyond our range, but your perseverance and constant sacrifices…
Read MoreFinally Friday: Group 1 Crew Joins Us at Our 360 National Conference!
Exciting news for everyone attending our 360 National Conference in September! Christian hip-hop duo Group 1 Crew will perform new songs from their album “Fearless.” With salsa dancing and spoken word artists like Propaganda, Group 1 Crew is just another way to spice up this overall youth worker training event. If you haven’t already registered, you…
Read MoreMotivation Monday: True Life Story! Lecrae’s “I AM SECOND” Testimony
True Life Story: Transformed by the Gospel Inspirational story of redemption. Going from the “church isn’t for me” mentality-> to overcoming fatherlessness, drugs, and gang violence through the power of the Spirit.
Read MoreFinally Friday: Dr. René Rochester @ 360 “Learning the Language of the Kingdom”
Dr. René Rochester takes a closer look at how culture is transformed by the Spirit and the Word of God at 360 Nashville National Conference. Workshop title: “Learning the Language and Culture of the Kingdom: Neither male nor female, Greek nor Jew… we are all one in Christ Jesus.” Examine how a newborn learns the language of…
Read MoreReproducing Reproducers
There is an old saying that goes, “You can’t see the forest for the trees.” What this simply means is that when you are so deeply engrossed in something, so completely lost within the trees, it is impossible to get a clear view of the bigger picture. Simply put – you miss what is going…
Read MoreEight Full-Funding Essentials (Because Who’s Not Tired of Being Broke)
“God’s work done God’s way will not lack supply.” – Dr. A. R. Bernard I confess. I struggle with believing this. Not the overarching idea of it. I believe in Jehovah Jireh after all, the God who provides. I preach from the same Bible prosperity preachers espouse, and encourage myself in Jesus’ assurance that our…
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