In my last post I mentioned how I got to spend some great time for a few days talking about how youth workers can be trained better and what primary research has been done that we need to find ways of getting into their hands. There were some pretty amazing people there and quite a few of them are pretty sharp. This has been a three year project that I've been pretty lucky to be a part of. Two of the guys are good friends and also PhD candidates in Practical Theology at Princeton Seminary.
I told them about an idea I had for a book dealing with Youth Ministry and specifically from a Youth Pastors perspective what it is I feel like parents want me to do. The book Title is "SoberVirgins" which often times is what I feel parents care about when sending their kids to youth group. If their kids can just somehow graduate from High School with those two words still defining who they are then they feel like the "church" has done it's job.
Anyways my two "friends" bought the domain name and created a fake book cover giving themselves the authorship of the book and me the "forward". I can't remember the last time I laughed that hard but at the same time I was also realizing that this project might have some legs to it. It is something that all 3 of us are really passionate about and something that we are uniquely positioned to talk about.
So to my friends. Jason Santos and Andrew Zirschky good punk and I'm looking forward to making this project a reality.
Dude, that would make a great book… as long as you tell us how to actually handle those parents and expectations!
And sadly, many youth workers and pastors also have that end goal in mind themselves. I don’t think it’s just parents.
Tim- Thanks for the support. Feel free to retweet the post.
And the sequal: Drunk Sluts.