Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in our short series “Married/Single in Youth Ministry.” Meet Jason Sansbury Jason (far right in picture) is the Director of Youth Ministries at Bethlehem United Methodist Church in Franklin, Tenn. His mom lives in ...
Meet Travis and Amanda Garner Travis is the Pastor of Discipleship (he just recently transitioned from being the Pastor of Student Ministries for eight+ years) at Brentwood United Methodist Church in Brentwood, Tenn. and Amanda is a Speech/Language Pathologist. The have ...
Warmth in Winter is an annual youth event organized by the Tennessee Conference Young People’s Ministries of the United Methodist Church for the Middle Tennessee area churches. This year's three-day event was themed “Something Beautiful” and was held in Murfreesboro ...
Jill Carr is the youth minister at White Oak Pond Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Lebanon, Mo. This is her story of how she came to be a CYMT graduate resident. Growing up on a farm and the youngest of three, ...
Friends, Thank you for your investment in the Center for Youth Ministry Training. God continues to do amazing things in and through our ministry. We just returned from our first spring retreat, during which our graduate residents shared some of ...
Editor's Note: This is the second in our short series "Married/Single in Youth Ministry." Meet Casey Langley. She and her cat, Phoebe, live in Fort Worth, Texas, where Casey is the Director of Youth Ministries at First United Methodist Church. ...
Editor's Note: This is the first in our short series "Married/Single in Youth Ministry." Over the coming weeks we'll profile three married couples and two single folks to get their insights on youth ministry as it relates to varying stages ...
I live in Lake Wobegon, where all the men are good-looking, the women are strong, and the children above average. Or at least, that's what you'd think if you just glanced in on a given Sunday morning. To the common ...
The Center for Youth Ministry Training is jumping back into full swing this January after a wonderful holiday season. We were excited by the Kingdom work done at all our partner churches. As we head into a new semester, we ...
At the very heart of the Center for Youth Ministry Training's mission to develop theologically formed and practically effective youth ministries is our graduate residency program. Our graduate residency program creates a whole-person learning environment by nurturing residents academically in the ...
Part of CYMT’s mission is to equip churches to have effective youth ministers and we also want the church to have effective volunteers for their youth programs. We know all CYMT churches have volunteers who need to be recognized for ...
Jon Snape entered the CYMT program in the Fall of 2007 as part of CYMT's second class of students. He served at Westland ...
Thank you for investing in the mission and vision of the Center for Youth Ministry Training! God continues to do amazing things through CYMT as we impact the Kingdom one youth ministry at a time. With 31 graduate residents working ...
by Tony Akers I've been a youth minister for a long time. I'm also a father of three. My oldest daughter just began college and my son is a freshman in high school. Little sister is in second grade. For ...
Tess Frohock began as a CYMT resident in the inaugural class in 2006. Tess’ assigned church was St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church and Preston Taylor Ministries--both in Nashville--and she is still serving there today. She was commissioned in 2008 with a ...
by Andrew Zirschky Jumbo shrimp. Live recording. Pastor’s day off. They’re all oxymorons—figures of speech crafted from contradictory words that make us chuckle when we slow down to consider them. Then there is “practical theology.” While some might find practical ...
The Center for Youth Ministry Training's Graduate Residency jumped into full swing August 6-9, 2012, with our orientation and first academic retreat of the year. This retreat laid the foundation for our community and training for the rest of the ...
Welcome to the new Center for Youth Ministry Training Investor Update! God is doing so many amazing things in and through the CYMT that they simply will not all fit in our two bi-annual newsletters, so we decided that we ...
The Center for Youth Ministry Training is excited to welcome 13 new graduate residents and partner churches to the program this Fall. Our churches are located in four states and are from five denominations. Our new graduate residents come to ...
CYMT Graduate Resident Tiffany Nygard had researched all that she could about Camp Barnabas before taking her youth from White House United Methodist Church this summer. She spoke with Volunteer Director Mark Holder, watched YouTube videos, read the information on ...
