Category: The Church
Insurance Mess: You’ll Want To Check On This
First, let me jump to the ending: Marty is fine. Healing…walking… He is fine. Now, the backstory: Marty is an awesome adult volunteer in our senior high ministry. He’s been doing this for years and is fantastic. He ‘gets’ good, relational ministry, and is a ton of fun to have around. He is a blessing ...
Trending
Over time, I’ve noticed that ministry with those in the first third of life seems to be kind of “trend driven.” There are new ministry concepts…thoughts and ideas that tend to bubble up. They become a big deal…they become mainstream…they fade…they are replaced… When I first started doing this work, congregational youth ministry was all ...
Leadership Matters
Nominations open today for the Board of Directors of the ELCA Youth Ministry Network. Two seats on the board will become available when the next term begins. Those terms don’t begin until February 3, 2014, a long time from now. So why are we already opening up the nomination process for terms that don’t begin ...
Listen
“At Disney, demographic information is thought of as factual information about our guests. Demographic information reveals who customers are, where they come from, how much effort they expend to get here, how much money they spend, etc… Another valuable aspect of demographics is that when you know who your guests are, you automatically know who ...
We Have a Plan…
Last week, the Network’s Board of Directors had a final, online discussion, and voted to approve the new strategic plan for the ELCA Youth Ministry Network. This vote comes after a year of development that included prayer and conversation, writing, editing, re-writing, more editing, release of drafts, feedback, rewriting, writing, and so on and so ...
Dr. Rollie Martinson Retires from Luther Seminary
The following letter was released today by Luther Seminary: Dear President Foss, I write to inform you of my decision to retire June 30, 2013. While many personal and professional considerations surround my retiring at the end of this academic year, the timing of the decision is primarily informed by my commitment to joining others ...
Being Made New
There is change happening in the church. Maybe it’s a new awareness…perhaps it’s a new reformation…I’m not sure what to call it. But something is different. There are new conversations taking place. There are new questions being asked. When I enter into conversations with those who do ministry alongside young people and their families, the ...
The Tom Hunstad Award Presented to Lisa Jeffreys!
Text from Rev. Larry Wagner’s presentation: While tonight’s announcement regarding the recipient of the 2013 Tommy Award won’t be covered by any of the major networks, and it won’t likely be printed in the morning edition of the LA Times, it matters deeply to those of us who are gathered in this ballroom tonight. One ...
Who We Are
In the last couple of weeks of November, we did a demographic survey of our Network members. We e-mailed our members, inviting them to take the online survey sometime over a period of two weeks. We had a good response to the invitation. Our response rate was 52%. There are two reasons we did the ...
Practice Discipleship Launches!
The second phase of the Practice Discipleship Initiative will launch in January of 2013. This project is the result of a dynamic partnership between the ELCA Youth Ministry Network, the ELCA and its Youth Gathering, ELCA Lutheran seminaries and colleges and their faculty who teach children, youth and family ministry, and resource providers of the ...
Network is a Verb 