This Way to Youth Ministry: :An Introduction to the Adventure (YS Academic)

Dr. Duffy Robbins, Professor of Youth Ministry at Eastern University, St Davids, PA This Way to Youth Ministry: An Introduction to the Adventure (YS Academic) .
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Whether your journey is just beginning or well under way, This Way to Youth Ministry is the book that will help with everything that lies ahead. Davids, Pennsylvania, is a respected youth ministry veteran with over forty years of experience in the field.

He speaks around the world to teenagers and people who care about teenagers. One part odyssey, one part call, one part mission, and one part quest, youth ministry calls us into places of breathless exhilaration, stunning beauty, genuine peril, and unknown discovery This Way to Youth Ministry: An Introduction to the Adventure. Down the Great Unknown. A Journey Marked by Blazes. Through Many Danger Toils and Snares.

Developing a Philosophy of Youth Ministry. Spiritual Formation and Christian Leadership.

For more information, visit the Synod webpage. To respond to the new challenges and opportunities of our day the Catholic bishops of the United States offer this document as a blueprint for the continued development of effective ministry with young and older adolescents. Purchase your own copy of Renewing the Vision.

Youth ministry should begin to teach adolescents what a life of discipleship looks like. As baptized members of the Church, youth are called to serve others and to serve Christ, bringing about the Kingdom of God in unique ways. It is the youth minister, pastor, or parent's job to empower adolescents to live Christian lives of discipleship.

Youth are empowered when they are welcomed into a Church that speaks to their hearts with the "joy of the Gospel and the strength of the Eucharist" St. When youth frequently engage the Gospel, challenge their spiritual lives, and are shown the adventure of discipleship through the Church they can begin to commit themselves totally to Jesus Christ in concrete ways. There are four notable communities that help youth grow in faith. When youth are drawn to these communities, they better understand what it means to live in a faith community. The family is the "first community and the most basic way in which the Lord gathers us, forms us, and acts in the world" Follow the Way of Love , p.

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The family is responsible for the spiritual, moral, and overall development of adolescents by faith sharing in the home. This requires parents to love and support their children, but it also challenges adolescents to "enhance family live with their love and faith" and to bring new understandings and skills into the home that will enrich family life Renewing the Vision. Every family member plays a role in building a community where love can dwell. It is important for youth to engage the Parish community because parishes "are the place where God's people meet Jesus in word and sacrament" in a concrete way Renewing the Vision.

Youth-friendly parishes do three things to foster adolescent spiritual growth. First, parishes should allow youth to serve the parish along with adults. When adolescents feel welcomed into the parish community as full-fledged members, they are more likely to identify as a community member.

Second, parishes must allow youthful energy and vision in parish activities. Finally, if parishes truly desire to become "youth-friendly", it is crucial to value adolescents. This means listening to them and responding to their needs, as well as providing them with facilities and money to enable their growth as disciples. If the parish wants youth to commit to parish life, the parish must commit to the development of the youth. Campus ministry should demonstrate effective ministerial strategies to youth including effective religious education, service projects, retreats, and other activities.

Catholic education and campus ministry must strengthen and empower youth to use their gifts and talents in the wider Church community. It is important for youth to go beyond their family, parish, and school communities to serve the greater Church community. Catholic service leaders have a duty to reach out to young people in order to form them as young disciples who can bear witness to the gospel message.

Service organizations are communities where youth can learn about joyful giving while being spiritually challenged to love others as Christ does. Youth ministry in the Church should promote holistic growth and development; that is, growth and development of the entire person. Ministers and leaders must listen to the specific developmental, social, and religious needs and nurture them accordingly. The United States is losing its way as a society by not ensuring that all youth move safely and successfully into adulthood.

Today's youth are plunged into the distracting worlds of consumerism and technological isolation, which damages relationships including both familial ties and a spiritual relationship with Jesus Christ. Our secular culture does not offer the proper economic, spiritual, and personal tools to help youth become disciples of Jesus Christ.

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In short, our youth are settling for less in a society that ignores them. We must show our youth that the Church maintains a culture of love and discipleship. Our challenge is to show youth the fullness a life of Catholic Christian discipleship entails. In addition to the large-scale culture, sometimes young people's families, school, and other living environments do not provide essential development assets.