Hey all- I wanted to let you know about a conference that I’m hosting at my church Highland Park Presbyterian Church on October 15th. We are calling it Reframing Relational Youth Ministry and hope that it is a great resource to anyone who is working with students to help them figure out how to do relationships right. Many of you can probably remember older youth ministry practices that told us if we connected with the cool kids or the influential kids or the athletic kids that they would then become a draw to bring students to our programs. But, there are just some major problems with that model because at it’s core it’s not honest and treats students as a commodity to accumulate and not a relationship to nurture. And sadly students get it and know sometimes that we are hanging out with them because we are paid to do it.
Andy Root has written some amazing books and he’ll be with us from 9am-4pm to walk us through a way that we can/should reframe our ministries to build authentic and real relationships with students without having a hidden agenda.
Check out the website here. It’s only $25 for the whole day but if you want to bring more people from your organization or church it’s only $100 total. Click here to register.
