How to expand successfully
A Texas youth program has learned how to replicate itself by engaging in important practices.
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Transforming and expanding
Project Transformation is a literacy and youth development program that has successfully expanded to three states. The key is maintaining the program’s core strengths while allowing flexibility, leaders say.
Sarah Howell: Peek-a-boo and other lessons in leadership
Where did the playfulness in leadership go?
Lydia H. Hoyle: Attracting a new generation of leaders in ministry
Churches and denominations need to create and maintain a “culture of calling” rather than occasionally emphasizing it, writes a church history scholar at Campbell University Divinity School.
Dori Baker: Microcommunities of prayer and action
Rapid change in the church offers an opportunity to try out prototypes of ministry with young people, says a scholar-in-residence at The Fund for Theological Education.
Welcoming Penny
The only way for Amy Julia Becker to explain her love for her daughter was through the lens of faith. So she took a deep breath and began.
Amy Julia Becker: It's no mistake, Penny is perfect
The author of ‘A Good and Perfect Gift’ talks about rethinking perfection and other lessons she’s learning from Penny, her daughter with Down syndrome.
Mark DeVries: Investment drives results
Healthy youth ministry is not based on a single charismatic leader, says an expert in the field. It requires congregations to invest in staff and create a vision.
Dori Baker: Teens behaving strangely
When her teenage daughter and friends began tuning in to the Sunday sermon, prepping for midweek lectionary study and bandying about words such as “eschatology” and “quadrilateral,” a mother realized that something exciting was happening in her congregation.
Eboo Patel: Look to young people for leadership in interfaith cooperation
As in every successful social movement, young people have a vital role to play in interfaith cooperation and understanding, says the founder of the Interfaith Youth Core.