Interview

Check out these interviews that the youth ministry students did for their culture class. I picked one good question and subtitled it for you.

The end of the quarter

Yesterday, I finally finished up grading papers and tests and calculating final grades for the youth ministry students at the seminary. It was the official end of the quarter. Now I can focus on packing and finishing everything for our trip tomorrow to Florida.

I’m still doing a lot of preparation for my class in January, but at least a little of the stress is gone. The students all did fairly well. Soon, I’ll put up some video from their presentations in culture class.

Discipleship 2 Exam

Today is the last day of class for the quarter (besides exams). I’m giving a final project for my discipleship class. Here’s a rough translation of the content I’m looking for in the “Final Project” for my Discipleship in Youth Ministry Class:

  1. Your definition of discipleship and an explanation of that definition.
  2. In general terms, what is it that you want to achieve in the lives of the young people in your discipleship program?
  3. What specific objectives are there for the young people? Remember that there are levels of discipleship. Which objectives are there for each level (new Christian, Christian, etc)? Put these objectives in order of importance. What things are necessary for which level?
  4. What role do small groups play in your ideal program?
  5. What will an ideal small group look like?

    6. (more…)

Troubled Youth Video

shame.jpgI made this video (in Spanish) to use in my Ministry to Troubled Youth class. The statistics are from Mexico. If you understand Spanish, click the video link to watch the video, or you can watch it on Youtube.

It was my first attempt at actually makings something in Flash with Swishmax, a cheap program that you can make flash videos with. I think it turned out pretty well.

CYM Christmas Party

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Last night, we invited all the students from the Center for Youth Ministry and their families to our house for a Christmas party. We had sandwiches, cookies, cake, chips, and all sorts of stuff.

It was great to sit with them outside of class and get to know them all better. We sat around the table and talked about what God has done in our lives to bring us to this point. It was great because that part wasn’t planned, but we had a fun time talking about our life experiences and laughing about different things.