Tag: Leadership
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 ...
New, and Renewed Board Members
I’m excited to announce the appointment of a new member of the Network’s Board of Directors and a reappointment of a member. Dr. Jeremy Myers, who teaches in the youth and family ministry program at Augsburg College in Minneapolis has been appointed to a 3-year term to the board. Jeremy is married to Tracie, and ...
An Update from New Jersey…
Jason Reed is the synod staff person for youth ministry in the New Jersey Synod of the ELCA. He lives in Mount Holly, New Jersey. Jason is a member of the ELCAYMNet and the SYMBOL (Synod Youth Ministry Band of Leaders) Network, and a strong advocate for young people within the congregations of his synod. ...
New Network Strategic Plan
Dear friends, The Network’s new 3-year strategic plan is going to strengthen our organization, deepen our ministry and broaden our reach. The Network Board of Directors recently concluded our annual fall meeting, and one of our tasks (among many) was to complete the draft of the plan. Our task between now and the Extravaganza is ...
Regional Facilitators – Looking for Nominations!
A Network is only as good as its communication links. We put a lot of our time and energy into our web-based stuff. So we’ve got an active web site, a very active Facebook page, an e-mail newsletter, etc…etc…etc… While these ways of linking people together are important, they can’t (and shouldn’t) replace the human ...
TEDTalk: “How Great Leaders Inspire Action”
A brilliant TED Talk that is too good not to share. My killer line: “There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leaders are persons of authority. Those who lead are persons of passion.” Worth watching. Interesting implications for our ministry. I’d love to hear your thoughts and comments on this below… Thanks to ...
Network is a Verb 