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What is the city’s greatest hope? While God works through all sorts of leaders, perhaps the greatest hope for the city comes from those who grow up in the city and and choose to stay there as indigenous leaders. Urban practitioner and researcher Jude Tiersma Watson explores the model of urban leadership development as a way to raise up leaders in your—and their—context.
You've been wondering whether to pick up the phone and check in with last year's grads now that they're a few months into college, but you aren't sure you can make the time. Recent research through CYFM's College Transition Project might help you realize how important that call really is.
Are kids getting more or less violent? Given the amount of media attention attracted by episodes of youth violence, it’s hard to get a handle on what research might be saying or what ministry interventions might be working to lower violence. With the help of the Fuller Youth Initiative research team, this article takes an in-depth look at the key questions youth workers and parents have about youth violence, and a few encouraging responses from youth workers who are making a difference.
Few of us actually think suburban kids live risk-free lives, but most of what we hear about "at-risk" relates to kids who live in urban areas, in deep poverty, or in obviously harsh family environments. This article looks deeper into the oppressive forces impacting the lives of suburban kids—no less real or oppressive, but perhaps less obvious.
"Conversion" and "evangelism" are words we often throw around in ministry without really stopping to consider what we mean and what we are attempting when we use them. Looking at two different approaches to conversion research might help us think more carefully about how we—and the students we serve—see the roles of both story and process in evangelism.
No one is immune to loss - most of us know that all too well. But do we really know how to effectively deal with the losses that we and the students in our ministries experience? We hope this resource will help
you gain research-based tools for helping kids walk through loss with "good"
grief.
Do you wonder what kind of impact youth ministry actually has on students by the time they graduate from high school? So do we. As reflected in the lead story in The New York Times on October 6, more and more denominations and youth workers are wondering what types of students we’re developing, and what happens to them after they graduate. Our CYFM College Transition Project is trying to address these questions through a three-year study following a group of students from around the country who finished high school last spring and are off to college this fall. This article is our first report on the data we've been collecting in this important and revealing study.
We all scratch our heads wondering how to respond to the loss of students from church after high school. Research on this pattern, as well as the patterns of those who return to their faith later, may inform our response as churches who have the opportunity to nurture them — both to prevent some from leaving and to welcome back others who have left.
Who are the youth you consider developmentally “at risk” in your church or neighborhood? In contrast to the individualism that has guided most work with kids who are labeled this way, Jude Tiersma Watson offers an approach based on ecological development theory and a theological principle of belonging. These insights affect the way we view ministry with ANY kind of student.
Wondering what the long-term needs of adolescents are following traumatic events? Youth workers have the opportunity to integrate insights from both psychology and theology to address what may be happening in students’ lives.
The type of drama and violence that is seen on a daily basis in the ghetto leaves a residue on the emotions and physical being of a person. Many would suggest that people move to safer neighborhoods. But what if you can’t leave?
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