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Thursday, January 25th, 2007Concerts of Prayer wants more. Katie Sweeting sent the following question in response to the prayer summit. My response is an incomplete thought. … We need your help to fill in the blanks. Please offer insights and feedback in the comments section. You did an absolutely wonderful job with the prayer time. It was informative [...]
The Christian Post reports on Mooks and Midriffs
Thursday, January 25th, 2007CP: You talk about media being vital in reaching our youth today. It is important to speak their language to be able to reach them. Yet, among all the material that is found, for instance on the internet, how do you get them to look at Christian material rather than all the things they normally [...]
Mooks, Midriffs, Myspace & More 2
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007Mooks, Midriffs, Myspace and More: Engaging a Plugged-in Generation Corporate profiteers produce and market media for a target youth audience they call mooks and midriffs — caricatures that exploit adolescent insecurities and hormones — a strategy described as “grabbing below the belt and reaching for their wallets.” The result: average teens now consume digital media [...]
UrbNet Notes – Part 3
Thursday, January 11th, 2007Part 1, Part 2 (Unless otherwise indicated, all UrbNet ’07 notes are courtesy of Virginia Ward) Urban/Suburban Partnerships · Few real relationships with urban and suburban · Scale of 1-10, the number is 3 · Expectation that urban should/must adapt to suburban way of doing things BUT, our goal should be to Build Bridges that [...]
UrbNet Notes – Part 2
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007Notes are courtesy of Virginia Ward: Devotions – Chris Brooks Nehemiah 1:1-4 – They Wept In America we are feeling like we are in the place of weeping like Nehemiah. This is a regular response when we are facing crisis. This is the mourning phase. 2:17 – They Worked Now it is time to do [...]
City Connector Resources
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007Download city connector resources, courtesy of Doug Tegner and the National Network of Youth Ministries: Principles of Strategic Partnership (Word Doc) Conflict Curve (Word Doc) Partnering Continuum (Powerpoint)
A 30-year Vision for Urban Youth Ministry Networking?
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007Chris Brooks has been facilitating the Urbnet Summit on behalf of the NNYM and began our time together with a “futuring” exercise. In small(er) groups, we were asked to imagine what a national network of urban ministries (Urbnet) might look like in 3-years, 10-years, and 30-years. Participants include: Virginia Ward (Boston), Brian Dye (Chicago), Tommy [...]
“The Race to the Bottom”
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007Has the New York Times become prophetic in its treatment of youth issues? Beside’s the library article, the Times also exposes the lure of “web sites without rules” to young people in today’s issue. Popular Web sites like YouTube and MySpace have hired the equivalent of school hallway monitors to police what visitors to their [...]
Lock the Library! Rowdy Students Are Taking Over
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007An institution that, like many nationwide, strives to attract young people, even offering beading and cartooning classes, will soon be shutting them out, along with the rest of the public, at one of the busiest parts of its day. Having spent more time in public libraries in the last two months that in my previous [...]
Youth Explosion lives life on The Stoop
Friday, December 22nd, 2006- My latest article (January 2007, Tri-State Voice) Proverbs promises that wisdom cries out in the streets, waiting to be found by those who seek her. The Stoop, an original musical by Youth Explosion Ministries in Glendale Queens, depicted what she looks like: joyful, strong, engaging, and at peace with herself, her neighbors, and her [...]
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