Youth Specialties Convention...
I'm thinking about going to the Youth Specialties convention in St. Louis, November 20–24. I really don't know why...I think it's that I just want to hang out with youth worker types. I love all the conversations. I told Mark we should offer our own free "seminars" basically as an excuse to get people together to talk. Maybe we should've had a liquidthinking booth that simply has a sign..."You don't need to buy anything to do ministry better." Honestly, I think youth ministry in its present form is over-hyped, over-sold, and over-rated...and some honest youth workers are admitting that. Working with churched students at school 5 days a week, 6 classes a day, I can say I'm no longer sure what the goals of youth ministry are but I'm pretty certain whatever they are its not working.

Judging from some of the emails I've gotten about my posts lately, there are a lot of youth workers who are longing for something, anything different than what they are experiencing in their churches right now. I told David at YS that they really need to add some seminars on "What now...I can't stand the way things are" & "Quitting Professional Youth Ministry". He didn't really acknowledge me. ;-) With Yaconelli writing some of the things he's written, you'd think they would have to offer something to help people who are taking his thoughts seriously.


posted by Jimmy at 9:23 PM | |