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 ...
Where does youth ministry happen? If you jot down a list of three answers to that question, chances are some variant of “youth room” is in the mix. Your terminology might be cooler or more relevant, but the odds are ...
The first approach we’ll consider is the instructional approach, a paradigm familiar to most youth workers because it’s the dominant approach of published curriculum. The goal of the instructional approach is to help students understand scripture so that they can ...
Editor's Note: This is an overview of our "youth ministry course in a nutshell" series, Communicating the Gospel to Youth, taught by Rev. Andrew Zirschky as part of CYMT's Master of Arts in Youth Ministry degree program through Memphis Theological ...
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 ...
Every year, we have an opportunity to create rites of passage that celebrate our high school seniors and propel them forward into their unknown futures. Senior celebrations happen across the country during this time of the year. At some churches, ...
"Liberté, égalité, fraternité!" was the cry of the French Revolutionists. They wanted liberty, equality, and brotherhood for all people. (Do you hear the people sing?) I've seen many youth ministers try to start their own revolutions under banners like: Out with the ...
As youth ministers, we often serve as change agents. We begin ministry young, idealistic, eager, and often arrogant. We work in churches that have become disconnected with the culture in which they live and we know that they need to ...
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 ...
by Mike Langford We've heard it. We've said it. And when we were teenagers, we lived it. Adolescence is really hard. Adolescence is not hard merely because of the particular cognitive, social, ideological, cultural, and physical challenges faced during that ...
Where there is no vision, the people perish. (Proverbs 29:18) I've used this scripture every time I've met with a church to do vision planning. However, I have met with a lot of churches without a vision and none of ...
Volunteers, a precious resource we can't afford to lose. —Denise Penn Do your volunteers know how much you appreciate them? They should. Lack of volunteer appreciation is a major reason for high turnover rates among volunteers, and appreciation can be directly tied ...
by Stephen Ingram I love to read. I love to read about all sorts of things, but I especially love to read about ministry and how we have the ability to shape it for the future. Some of the most ...
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 ...
You've planned an amazing white water rafting trip for your youth group. You've written every devotional, laid out every game, ice breaker, and small group activity. You found a great rafting company that will take care of all the logistics. ...
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 ...
