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Can teenagers change the world? We believe the answer is yes! That's why we want to partner together to raise up a new generation of Christ-centered leaders who IMPACT this planet. This site is designed to help by equipping you with resources and by offering encouragement to help you develop world-changers for God.
Check out the information and the links, check back often, and tell your friends about www.chogy.org.
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Help! I'm a Youth Leader!
A Resource Book for Those Who Minister to Teens
This free resource (click here to download) is designed to help youth leaders with a hands-on, experienced-based manual based on more than fifteen years of youth ministry experience compiled into a quick-and-easy-what-would-be-helpful-for-a -youth-leader-to-know resource. It is divided into the following sections:
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First Things First: You and the importance of your leadership
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Your Adult Team of Leaders: How do I get them and what do I look for?
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Your Student Team: Developing a team of student leaders
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Your Vision and Purpose: Knowing where you are going
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Your Students: How do I get them and how do I help them become Christ-centered leaders?
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Logistics: Raising funds, getting church support, permission forms, budgets, and other helpful things to know
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Resources: Where do I find them - how do I stay current?
Forms are included as well so you don't have to recreate them, so that you can spend more time with your students and less time with paperwork. Originally designed with the youth leaders, often volunteer and bi-vocational, in churches under 200, it is also helpful to main youth leaders in churches of all sizes.
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It's Here: the Student Leadership Institute Manual!
Young men and women across North American are sensing God's call on their lives and seeking ways to explore and confirm that call. The Student Leadership Institute (SLI) is one venue that state youth leaders have developed to assist high school students in responding to that call. Through national collaborative work the leaders of those SLIs have created a manual to assist each other and to provide guidance and a model for those state youth ministries that are thinking about creating such an Institute.
Click here for an on-line, downloadable manual to assist you in your work. ( 5 MB)
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For a wide variety of youth ministry resources—click here.
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 360 RevolutionFree teaching tools on sharing your faith!
These four lessons to help you equip students to share Christ in their communities are available for FREE.
Click here to report times when God brings someone to Christ through the students in your group.
Just added:
360 NEXT STEPS
Students and leaders,
click here for student stories about the 360 Project and
how you can reflect Jesus to those around you.
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 The 5 Principle Training System
One of the dreams of the Youth Ministry and Youth Network Teams is to be a catalyst to help train youth leaders around the world. The 5 Principle Training System, working with the SHAPE initiative of the Church Of God and including the principles of Spirituality, Vision, Leadership, Knowledge/Culture, and Relational/Connectivity, was developed with the belief that these five principles apply across cultures. In January 2008, the principles were piloted with leaders in Africa. The dream is for this system to be a tool that local, state/provincial, regional, and national leaders everywhere can use. Feel free to use these to teach and train your leaders.
Click here to download these free materials.
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National Youth Ministry Conference
February 27–March 2, 2009, Columbus, Ohio
Church of God youth workers can receieve a $40 discount when registering!
Click here to register, and be sure to use CGANYMC in the "Reservation/Key Code" box.
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Click here to check out the awesome things God did at IYC2008. |
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The Youth Ministry Team (YMT) seeks to support local Church of God congregations across the Unites States and Canada as they REACH, DISCIPLE, and EMPOWER teenagers. The team is led by Andy Stephenson of Church of God Ministries; the rest of the group is made up of experienced individuals who serve in a variety of youth ministry roles.
Click here to learn more about the Youth Ministry Team and find out how they can serve you.
The Youth Network Team (YNT) exists to help fulfill the vision of the North American youth ministries of the Church of God. It consists of qualified, gifted Church of God youth ministry practitioners distributed regionally across the United States and Canada. The team is led by Andy Stephenson of Church of God Ministries.
YNT members are here to help you REACH, DISCIPLE, and EMPOWER teenagers by building authentic community among youth leaders, encouraging you, praying for you, and offering their support as consultants and speakers.
Need encouragement or advice about what's going on in your ministry? Got a prayer request? Need someone to provide coaching or training for you and your volunteers? Click here to learn more about the Youth Network Team or to contact representatives in your area. They would be happy to hear from you.
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