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A 30-year Vision for Urban Youth Ministry Networking?
By Jeremy | January 9, 2007
- Intergenerational
- Common terminology – veteran, practitioner emerging, lifers, consultants
| 3 years | 10 years | 30 years |
| Redefine urban | Better communication regarding training | Generational reconciliation |
| Articulate a common agenda among the body of Christ | Reform public education – building bridges that don’t exist right now | Global influence at highest levels of leadership (every sect)* |
| Agenda include education, justice, discipleship, parenting, - holistic agenda | Youth ministry career planning | Salt and light – impact that reflects deep relationship with Christ |
| Infrastructure for shared resources and information (example – each church have a church resource guide of what is available per city – common template that is digital) | Pipeline of people at various stages – leadership
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Transitions happen smoothly |
| Trumpet call to all cities that there is a networking campaign | Global methodology for the pipeline | Resist the tendency to build in to much infra-structure so it remains fluid- safeguards in place as necessary |
| Sustained staffing for Urbnet | Redefine youth ministry (expand the definition to include all working with youth) | International web of cities functioning to capacity to our potential |
| Life on life mentoring – veterans and young ones | Review Search Institute, models | Public ed system that makes sense nationally and prepares our youth to compete internationally and the church prepares kids to have a voice |
| ID key connectors in each city/region - create an asset map | Re-define connectors roles | Stable homes and marriages – perpetuated by the youth we now serve |
| Redefine the paradigm of network – set up a framework that is more global | Translating “church talk†– connector needs to be socially bi-lingual | Mindset of youth leaders changed to understand focus on building leadership |
| Each connector disciples and connects their disciples | Pro-active cultural engagement | Crisis is the exception and not the norm |
| Duplicating best practices | Method to ID emerging youth leaders | Church and community would value youth |
| Generational reconciliation | Eliminate walls of division | |
| Ongoing dialog and relationships |
Topics: networking, urban, urbnet, youth ministry | 5 Comments »
January 9th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
thanks for sharing the notes. i wish i was there it seems very interesting and some good conversation. who is there?
January 9th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
I appreciate the notes. It’s great to see the span of this vision and Lord-willing the transformation of our communities and our cities. I also like how similarly it flows from the vision God is giving UYWI through Larry and our leadership…. It sounds like we need to do more to connect.
January 9th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
This is a lot of information… ya’ll are working hard. A few thoughts:
– 30 years seems to long into the future. It’s not coming to mind, but I was reading about something that had achieved its goal of dramatic global change in just over a ten-year period.
– A lot of what’s in the second column, the ten year goal column, seems like it should be in the first column. Examples: redefining youth ministry, global pipeline, and urban youth ministry career planning all seem like they should be aggressive three-year goals
it’s a good direction. i only ask that it doesn’t devolve to this: blessed webcam: http://ship-of-fools.com/Features/2006/blessed_webcam.html
January 9th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
I concur that we need to get our heads together…I will be in Cali. @ Fuller for 2 weeks in February. Wanna grab dinner and a movie?
January 10th, 2007 at 11:05 am
Glad to see the ‘thinktank’ thinking again! (Virginia, your capture skills excel!) so, yeah… i kinda wanna echo Rudy’s comment. The time track seems to be in traditional mode as you are dealing ‘non-traditionally’ with a critical issue. The 3-year goals really NEED to be resolved like ‘rat now!’ Except for the staffing question, we could probably tackle most of them in a timely manner so that the 10 year goals could be approached sooner. I think the most important part is that now we have some defined objectives, however quickly we achieve them. With the speed at which societal NORMs are changing (a la iPhone, knew i could sneak that in somehow) I am optimistic that the in-depth work you have done this week will give us a great foundation to reach this ‘latter day’ harvest.