Mark Sayers
ratatouille online
is blogging on some of the most common reasons 25-35 seems to be a dead spot for young adults when it comes to engaging in church life.
If you’re in youth ministry of any sort then this is a blog you need to be reading
Here are a few snippets:
From Your Faithclock is [...]
Today I spoke at the induction of Ryan Harding, the youth pastor at Quinns Baptist Church. Over the week I spent a fair bit of time reflecting on what I would say to a youth pastor, as one who has been there done that and who has spent a lot of time around youth pastors.
I [...]
Here is a very useful post here on this topic which we got into fairly seriously a while back.
A friend of mine who is also a local youth pastor, wrote to me recently and asked what people were feeling regards the whole Youth Alive scene here in WA.
I suggested he post here and we could discuss it. So here is his email:
G’day guys, I’m looking for youth pastors/leaders feedback on thoughts of Youth [...]
I was teaching on Tuesday night at the Baptist Theological College about Youth & Culture.
I would have to say that at 42 years old I am somewhat out of touch with the current surface issues in youth culture, but as I prepared I felt what was most important was to look at the deeper cultural [...]
Yesterday was the ‘Future Church’ forum run by the Church of Christ youth crew here in WA. Scott, who ran the day describes it like this:
It was a discussion day in which 7 topics were floated at the start with 3 spots for discussion. People voted at the start of the day on [...]
This week I start my role as a youth minisry coach with the Baptist churches of WA working 12 hours a week. My job is simply to meet with local youth pastors and help them be more effective in their roles.
Its not about influencing them to be like me or to buy into my psycho [...]