Innovation Lab Spotlight- Courtney Blacksten Participating in the Innovation Lab has been a breath of fresh air for my ministry. I have become more creative and have begun to think deeply--academically--about my ministry. I’ve started to ask more questions. As ...
Dear CYMT Fellows, I call on all of your wisdom as all people who have stood exactly where I am now – at the very last semester of one of the strangest, most transformative, most unlikely periods of your life. ...
Samantha “Sam” Tidball, Youth Pastor for Vineyard Church of Ann Arbor, has been awarded “The Distinguished Youth Minister Award” from The Center for Youth Ministry Training (CYMT), based in Nashville, TN. CYMT is a graduate program that equips youth ministers ...
The Center for Youth Ministry Training awarded $220,000 grant from the Texas Methodist Foundation for the Innovation Laboratory for Youth Ministry The Center for Youth Ministry Training (CYMT) has been awarded a $220,00 grant from the Texas Methodist Foundation for ...
It's Not a Conference. It's a Conversation Cultivate: A Thoughtful Youth Ministry Conversation Nashville, TN | January 24-25, 2019 CULTIVATE I’m a Lutheran. I’m a Methodist. I’m non-denominational. I’m Republican. Progressive. Liberal. Conservative. Pro. Anti. We are Christians. ...
CYMT Innovation Laboratory Announces 10 Partner Congregations The Center for Youth Ministry Training’s Innovation Laboratory, made possible with funding from the Lilly Endowment, has selected 10 partner churches to participate in the Innovation Lab. Each of these churches and their ...
The Center for Youth Ministry Training is excited to announce receiving a $1.1 million grant from the Lilly Endowment for the Innovation Laboratory for Youth Ministry. This grant will empower CYMT to create a research-based incubator for innovation in youth ...
Toby Chastain First United Methodist Church, Hartselle, Alabama Toby has been the youth minister at First United Methodist Church in Hartselle, Alabama for the last 10 years and has been in youth ministry since 1996. Toby heard about the “Veteran ...
CYMT is excited to announce the launch of our Texas Regional Campus in Austin, TX! CYMT has partnered with Bethany United Methodist Church and Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary to bring our graduate residency program to Texas beginning in the Fall ...
Happy 10th Birthday to the Center for Youth Ministry Training! On March 1, 2006 the session of First Presbyterian Church, Nashville officially voted to join Brentwood United Methodist Church in launching a ministry to train and equip youth ministers. Like ...
Linzi Anderson hails from Northern Ireland and is a graduate of the School of Chemistry at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. “After college I did an internship with the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI) which resulted in me ...
Growing up in the small community of Oneonta, Ala. (population 6,600), Skyler Jones has known since junior high school that God’s call for his life was youth ministry. Skyler holds a bachelor’s degree in religious studies from Athens State University. ...
Youth and adults from 11 churches came to Fisk University in downtown Nashville where their world would Collide with God. Throughout the week their preconceived notions of people would Collide with God's love for those people. The questions that they ...
The Center for Youth Ministry Training's Graduate Residency is off to a great start this fall with first academic retreat of the year taking place August 3-6. This retreat laid the foundation for our community and training for the rest ...
We are excited to 12 new graduate residents to the CYMT graduate residency this Fall.
COURSES OFFERED FALL 2015 The following courses will be offered by Memphis Theological Seminary for students enrolled in the Master of Arts in Youth Ministry degree program (this includes all CYMT graduate residents) during the Fall 2015 semester. They are ...
The following article is reprinted with permission as a slightly edited version from Rev. Steven Meriwether, pastor at Immanuel Baptist Church, from the church's May newsletter. Three years ago I devoted my space in the June issue of the newsletter ...
In a nearby coffee shop, a pastor told Kim*, a youth minister, that he hoped she enjoyed her "summer break." Kim promptly pulled out her phone and texted her outrage at such a comment to Sam*, another youth minister. Sam ...
CYMT Graduates on their last retreat: L to R (standing) Taylor Young, David Thompson, Robert Sturdivant, Maria Ghianni, Daniel Bradley, Abby Prevost, Philip Galyon, Dwight Johnson, Jenn Parrish, Samantha Hassell, Phil Rogers (seated), Tina Boyd, Carlisle Jones (kneeling) On May ...
May is the busiest month at the Center for Youth Ministry Training. Graduate Residents are finishing up final papers for classes while finalizing summer plans. Our coaches have been traveling to each of our 13 graduates churches to commission them ...
