The Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded the Center for Youth Ministry Training $240,000 to fund its Theology Together program over the next three years. Over the past 20 years, the Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded nearly $90 million in grants to ...
In Dyersburg, Tenn., high school football games are the place to be on Friday nights. But what happens after the game is over and kids still want to be together and have something to do? Answer: Fifth Quarter. The idea ...
CYMT's Class of 2016 It is hard to believe that in seven short years, the Center for Youth Ministry has trained more than 70 youth ministers. We have 32 youth ministers currently in the program and 40 alumni who are ...
Daniel Bradley, second year graduate resident, has been given the opportunity to serve as the full-time youth minister at St. George’s Episcopal Church after a year and a half of serving there as a CYMT graduate resident. He shares his ...
Presbyterian Youth Triennium (PYT) is a partnership youth conference between the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the Cumberland Presbyterian Churches and is held every three years in West Lafayette, Ind., on the campus of Purdue University. Youth ages 14 to 19, adult ...
CYMT graduate residents receive regular one-on-one coaching from a youth ministry veteran. The coaches also work directly with our partner churches to help the church leaders develop a healthy understanding of youth ministry and how to integrate into the life ...
Randy Knighten is in his third year of the CYMT graduate residency program. He came to CYMT at the age of 35, married with two young sons. Being a more than a decade older than the typical graduate resident, Randy ...
by Jason Sansbury In June 2012 I was finishing up a week of summer camp with senior high students in Panama City when I wound up in the Intensive Care Unit of a local hospital. I was in ICU for ...
by Philip Galyon Hello! My name is Philip Galyon and am a second year graduate resident at the Center for Youth Ministry Training. I serve as the youth minister at First UMC in West Memphis, Ark. I also believe that ...
Faithful CYMT Investors, In May, CYMT celebrated the graduation of its sixth class of youth ministers! Six of our eight graduates were hired by their partner churches to continue to lead their youth ministries. Additionally, Erin Hicks is headed to ...
The following courses will be offered by Memphis Theological Seminary for all CYMT graduate residents enrolled in the Master of Arts in Youth Ministry degree program during the fall semester of the 2013-2014 school year. Please note the dates and ...
The Center for Youth Ministry Training is excited to welcome 11 new graduate residents and partner churches to the program this Fall. Our churches are located in four states. Our new graduate residents come to us from near and far. ...
Faithful CYMT Investors, We have just entered our seventh year of ministry. We have moved out of the start-up phase of our organization's development and are moving into a new phase of ministry that involves growing and building. We are ...
by Neal Wilkinson Hello. I'm Neal, though I also go by the alias of "Nellie." I'm a 25-year-old from Coleraine, on the north coast of Northern Ireland. Despite it being mostly overcast, cold, wet, and windy, it is also the ...
We sat down with graduate residents Erin Hicks and Mitch Toler to talk next steps, time with CYMT, and what they learned during their three years in the program. How has CYMT helped you and your ministry at your church? ...
Friends, Your investment in the Center for Youth Ministry Training continues to pay huge dividends and we are grateful for your support. This month ordination boards are meeting with individuals who have felt called by God to serve the church. ...
Editor's Note: Mark Taylor is the youth minister at Arlington United Methodist Church and graduated from the CYMT program in May 2013 with an MA in Youth Ministry. by Mark Taylor Arlington, Tenn. is a bedroom community just east of ...
What led you to coaching at CYMT? Lesleigh Carmichael, CYMT Director of Coaching, is a mentor to me in youth ministry. Back when I was an intern at Woodmont Christian Church in Nashville during my time at Vanderbilt Divinity School, ...
Friends, Your investment in the Center for Youth Ministry Training continues to pay huge dividends and we are grateful for your support. Recently, I was presenting the CYMT partner church program to a church in West Tennessee. As folks were ...
Editor’s Note: This is the last in our short series “Married/Single in Youth Ministry.” Meet Bob and Kris Konsowitz. Kris is the Director of Ministries with Young People at Collierville United Methodist Church, outside Memphis, Tenn., and Bob is a ...
