Right now, Randy Smith, the president of Youth Ministry International is in Mexico City with the youth ministry students at the Mexican Baptist Theological Seminary. He’s teaching Contemporary Youth Missions this week because I’ll be out for 3 weeks of the quarter doing other work in other places.
The class is all about missions with young people, and it will help our youth ministry students to be able to better organize missions trips and think more holistically as far as global youth ministry is concerned. I’ll be teaching the same class in a week in a different location. YMI is busy throughout the world! Keep praying for us.
Last night was the Christmas concert at the seminary. The students always do a great job with it, and this year was no exception.
The youth ministry students are very talented. Two of them sang solos, and one of the girls danced to a song, too. I was excited to see them use their talents and abilities to minister to people and tell the story of the birth of Jesus.
The band did an excellent job, too. They did a rendition at the beginning that rivaled the Trans-Siberian Orchestra versions of Carol of the Bells. It was pretty awesome.
Here’s a quick little video of my time in Silao. It includes garbanzo beans, a giant Jesus statue on top of a hill, me teaching, and then the young people doing a learning activity by rapping what they had learned.
I got back last night from a youth camp in Silao, Guanajuato, about 5 hours north of Mexico City. I went with Huberto, and we had a good time, even though there were a lot of things that frustrated us about the organization of the camp.
I think Huberto is learning a lot about what not to do in youth ministry, based on our conversations on the way home from camp. The good thing is that he is noticing the things that go wrong. Let’s just say we were frustrated more than once this weekend. I don’t want to be overly critical, but the organization of the camp was horrendous. We made the most out of it, though, and I think it was a learning experience for both of us.
We came back with the thought of putting on our own camp and training others how to do it. It would be a great opportunity for us, and I think it would help many youth ministries in Mexico. We’ll see. It’s just one more thing to add to the long list of things to do.
You can check out my Flickr set of photos of the camp here.
As you already know, I’m a big geek. I’m into all sorts of stuff that would classify me as one of the biggest geeks you know. But, because of that, I’m constantly trying to think of ways that we should use technology to make our ministries better.
So, I thought of an idea to try to create a network of youth workers and sort of an online community for those involved in youth ministry in the Spanish speaking world. I have a list of about 200 people who have attended a workshop or conference with us, so I invited them to participate in a Youth Ministry Network. It’s sort of a social network for Spanish speaking youth workers.
The goal of the Center for Youth Ministry is to meet, train, network, and support youth workers. I believe that this netword can serve as a tool that will help us do all of those things, especially meet, network, and support. I’m hoping it will serve to get the word out there about the youth ministry program at the seminary, too.
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