Tag: Practice Discipleship
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 Board Gathers Today
Today, members of the Network’s Board of Directors are traveling to Denver, Colorado for their annual fall meeting. The vision, direction and policies of the Network are overseen by this Board. Seven individuals are called to serve in this role, and meet for prayer, discernment, visioning and policy setting three times a year. The Network ...
The 800 Pound Gorilla
I was talking with a friend who serves in a different congregation in a different state earlier in the week. He said that he was looking forward to the next couple of weeks with a sense of dread. “Why is that?” I asked. “Because it’s all going to be about the ELCA Youth Gathering. The ...
It’s Not About Us
There is a new webinar that has been added to the catalog of webinars that are a part of the “Practice Discipleship Project” done cooperatively by the Network and the ELCA Youth Gathering. I’m really excited about the webinar. It is titled “Compassionate Justice and Service Learning.” I’d like to give you the description, and ...
I Didn’t Know That Was On There!
I hear it actually all of the time. Somebody will send me a question about a ministry topic, or perhaps about a resource, and I’ll drop back a quick note to them and say “you should check out _______________’s talk from the Extravaganza a couple of years ago…there was some stuff said there that I ...
The Whole is Greater than the Sum of the Parts
There are moments when you suddenly realize that you are in the middle of an organizational “sweet spot.” Things click. Visions are realized. Goals are achieved. And you look around and say to yourself “I can’t believe that I’m here, in this spot at this time. I will always remember this time.” I’ve experienced that ...
Network is a Verb 