Training Opportunities

Veteran Cohort

Been in full-time youth ministry for eight or more years? Join this cohort, where you'll go through four preselected seminars and interact with people in a similar ministry stage as you.

Schedule

The Latest Research That Should Impact Your Youth Ministry

Len Kageler

Seminar Series #5

Pittsburgh - Nov 2 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

What? In addition to the time it takes to lead a youth ministry, you haven’t had time to pick up PhDs in psychology, sociology, cultural studies, and neuroscience? In this session we’ll highlight the recent research in these fields and then discuss the immediate implications and applications.

Youth Ministry in Your Second Decade and Beyond

Len Kageler

Seminar Series #4

Pittsburgh - Nov 2 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

How time flies! This session explores the issues (both positive and negative) that go along with increased age and experience in youth ministry. Among the negative issues is burnout. How do we keep ourselves from burnout, and how do we help our younger colleagues from falling prey to it as well?

Where Is the Church Headed and What's Our Response?

Tom Sine

Seminar Series #3 - Super Seminars

Pittsburgh - Nov 1 2:00 PM-4:30 PM

Have you noticed the soaring gas and grocery prices? Overnight, we’ve moved into a highly volatile, new global economy and an increasingly uncertain future. Tom will enable you to identify some of the new challenges we’re facing in a rapidly changing world and church. More than that, he’ll invite you to ignite your imagination and join the new conspirators—young innovators and risk takers who are creating new expressions of church, entrepreneurial youth ministries, monastic communities, and urban cooperatives with the poor to engage these new challenges. Come discover the new ways that God can use your imagination and the students you work with to create the future—one mustard seed at a time. With leaders in the Veterans Cohort, we’ll start by soliciting your insights on challenges facing the church, the young, and those at the margins. Then we’ll invite you to spend the final hour in small creativity groups, creating imaginative new ways to address these challenges that you can then share and take away.

Seeing the Future: Learning to Exegete Culture for Creating Innovation in Youth Ministry

Mark Matlock

Seminar Series #1

Pittsburgh - Oct 31 4:00 PM-5:30 PM

Trends come and trends go, but every now and then a shift occurs that alters the way we think, live, and relate to God and to others. This seminar will help you understand what indicators to look for and will teach you how to build scenarios that allow you stay current in the ever-changing world of teens. Come prepared to interact as we put these anthropological tools to use.