Center for Youth Ministry Training
Programs
Budget
$250,000.00
Description
Theology Together educates teenagers and youth workers together to engage in theological reflection, spiritual practice, vital service, and vocational discernment, producing reflective action embedded in the fabric of youth ministry in all its contexts. Theology Together is an experience-driven paradigm for youth ministry that positions teens as theologians. The power of youth as theologians leads to innovative, relevant, and growth-minded youth ministries because youth have the space to enter into robust theological dialogues. We help youth leaders enter into this paradigm through a robust set of tools-curriculum, training, events, and resources. The Lab has engaged over 1200 adults and teenagers across the country in our Wow Theological Reflection process. Theology together is currently developing curriculum for churches and nonprofits to use with young people to embed deep theological reflection into the fabric of their ministries.
Beneficiaries
Adolescents
Families
Adults
Program Areas Served
National Program
$250,000.00
Description
Theology Together educates teenagers and youth workers together to engage in theological reflection, spiritual practice, vital service, and vocational discernment, producing reflective action embedded in the fabric of youth ministry in all its contexts. Theology Together is an experience-driven paradigm for youth ministry that positions teens as theologians. The power of youth as theologians leads to innovative, relevant, and growth-minded youth ministries because youth have the space to enter into robust theological dialogues. We help youth leaders enter into this paradigm through a robust set of tools-curriculum, training, events, and resources. The Lab has engaged over 1200 adults and teenagers across the country in our Wow Theological Reflection process. Theology together is currently developing curriculum for churches and nonprofits to use with young people to embed deep theological reflection into the fabric of their ministries.
Beneficiaries
Adolescents
Families
Adults
Program Areas Served
National Program
Budget
$822,000.00
Description
The Graduate Residency in Youth Ministry is a specialized ministry degree designed to equip students for competent leadership in youth ministry. Students will be prepared to teach, disciple, and counsel youth in congregations and other settings. Students will be required to complete 48 graduate credit hours and a church internship in order to complete the degree. At completion of the program, the degree of Master of Arts in Youth Ministry will be conferred on them.
Program Areas Served
None
$822,000.00
Description
The Graduate Residency in Youth Ministry is a specialized ministry degree designed to equip students for competent leadership in youth ministry. Students will be prepared to teach, disciple, and counsel youth in congregations and other settings. Students will be required to complete 48 graduate credit hours and a church internship in order to complete the degree. At completion of the program, the degree of Master of Arts in Youth Ministry will be conferred on them.
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$1,132,929.00
Description
The Center for Youth Ministry Training has been awarded a $1.1 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. for the Innovation Laboratory for Youth Ministry. This grant will empower CYMT to create a research-based incubator for innovation in youth ministry during the next 3 years. The modern youth ministry movement has generated various models for ministry to young people, but nearly all of these models reduce youth ministry to a peer-based youth group. Youth ministry in the mainline church is undeniably in trouble, and yet we continue to turn to the modern formula with its emphasis on peer-based groups for personal spiritual enrichment as a dominant, if not sole, form of youth ministry. Traditional youth group is not the only way to accomplish youth ministry. It's CYMT's contention that a lack of viable and tested models constrains the imagination of church leaders and keeps the church in a cycle of imitation rather than innovation, even as youth group dies on the vine. CYMT believes the key to breaking out of the mold is to help a select group of congregations design and test innovative models of youth ministry that are theologically rich, practically effective, and report widely about these new models, while the laboratory provides other congregations the resources and tools to adopt and modify the innovative models as their own. During the three-year research and development phase, the Innovation Laboratory for Youth Ministry will develop systems for helping local congregations innovate new models, as well as learn the keys to successful implementation in the local church. Ten innovators and partner churches will have the opportunity to develop new models for youth ministry in their contexts. Laboratory failures will instruct efforts as the Innovation Laboratory Team learns and leans towards new models for youth ministry that will provide rich discipleship for youth and a tested innovation process capable of leading other congregations through innovation in youth ministry.
Program Areas Served
None
$1,132,929.00
Description
The Center for Youth Ministry Training has been awarded a $1.1 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. for the Innovation Laboratory for Youth Ministry. This grant will empower CYMT to create a research-based incubator for innovation in youth ministry during the next 3 years. The modern youth ministry movement has generated various models for ministry to young people, but nearly all of these models reduce youth ministry to a peer-based youth group. Youth ministry in the mainline church is undeniably in trouble, and yet we continue to turn to the modern formula with its emphasis on peer-based groups for personal spiritual enrichment as a dominant, if not sole, form of youth ministry. Traditional youth group is not the only way to accomplish youth ministry. It's CYMT's contention that a lack of viable and tested models constrains the imagination of church leaders and keeps the church in a cycle of imitation rather than innovation, even as youth group dies on the vine. CYMT believes the key to breaking out of the mold is to help a select group of congregations design and test innovative models of youth ministry that are theologically rich, practically effective, and report widely about these new models, while the laboratory provides other congregations the resources and tools to adopt and modify the innovative models as their own. During the three-year research and development phase, the Innovation Laboratory for Youth Ministry will develop systems for helping local congregations innovate new models, as well as learn the keys to successful implementation in the local church. Ten innovators and partner churches will have the opportunity to develop new models for youth ministry in their contexts. Laboratory failures will instruct efforts as the Innovation Laboratory Team learns and leans towards new models for youth ministry that will provide rich discipleship for youth and a tested innovation process capable of leading other congregations through innovation in youth ministry.
Program Areas Served
None
