Last night was the graduation banquet for the Seminary. This is a picture of me and Juan (graduating with his bachelor’s in youth ministry), Enrique (graduating with a diploma in youth ministry), Huberto (professor of youth ministry), and Pamela (graduating with a diploma in youth ministry).
It was a great night of celebrating their achievements during the time they have been studying. We also had some great discussion at our table about how to reach students on their campuses.
Today I’m off to Mexico City for this weekend’s National Youth Leaders’ Summit. I’ll be there promoting the Seminary programs and teaching two break-out sessions. It is put on by Especialidades Juveniles, the Spanish language arm of Youth Specialties. It will be great to participate in the conference, see friends I haven’t seen in a while, and make new friends.
Please pray that we will make some great contacts and that there will be many interested in continuing their training in youth ministry in one of our formal youth ministry training programs in Mexico.
Sometimes it is easy to get caught up in the numbers game when it comes to ministries. Seminaries are not immune to this problem. The first few years at the Mexican Baptist Theological Seminary were rough times for the youth ministry program. After having three students enter the first year to study youth ministry, two of them dropped out. Numbers were not what we had hoped. But we’ve learned a lot since then.
This video of Dr. Elmer Towns says it best. He is talking about leading Liberty University to be the largest Christian University in the world and about his thoughts on the greatness of the Seminary. I especially like what he says here (see clip), “The Greatness of a Seminary is not in the number of students you have. The greatness of a Seminary is what they do for God once they graduate.”
I’m excited to see what our graduates do for God after they graduate from the Seminary.
Last Saturday night I had the chance to be at the first graduation of youth ministry students from the Baptist Seminary in Santiago, Cuba. There were 19 graduates overall.
This class was one of the first graduating classes taught entirely by national professors trained by Youth Ministry International over a period of 3 years.
There’s a lot more to say about this, but for now, I’m just going to post the photo.
I had a quick Skype interview last Monday with some youth ministry students and youth pastors for Boyce College’s Youth Emphasis Week. We talked mostly about Youth Evangelism in Mexico.
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