Youth Worker Academy Spring 2012 presentation
Teenage Translation: Learning to Communicate with the Youth of Today – Andrew Hostetter – Associate Director of youth ministries – Wayne Presbyterian Church
Have you ever tried talking with a teenager and felt like you were having a cross cultural experience? Well you are in good company. If you are a parent of a youth, you will see that the youth you know and love are a lot different from the kids you knew them as several years ago. During this workshop, we will be working to understand the youth mindset a little better, and to develop and practice methods of communicating with youth. Hopefully by the end of our experience you will feel more comfortable with using your Teenage-ese.
Saturday April 14, 2012
Oxford Presbyterian and The Presbytery Center
915 East Gowen Avenue, Philadelphia
Workshop is part of the Church Leader Boot Camp
Registration begins at 8:30.
Click on above link for more information and schedule
Costs is $15 per person includes lunch.
Youth Worker Academy
The Youth Workers Academy is a ministry of the Presbytery of Philadelphia dedicated to training, supporting and providing opportunities to network and connect adults working with young people. This includes youth directors, advisors, parents & stepparents, unpaid volunteers, associate pastors, Christian education committees and everyone in between. The YWA has begun with “Practical. Theological. Relational..”
Each session covers a specific topic of vital importance in youth ministry. These sessions are designed for those with limited formal training in youth ministry, although all adults who work with young people will benefit. Each session will run between 4-5 hours on a given Saturday and will include time to connect with other youth workers as well as provide training. Each session will include resources for participants to use in their own ministries and opportunities to share valuable insights and tools. Youth are not the intended participants for these events.
Hallmarks and Theology of the YWA
- Youth workers will be treated as adults and never as youth. Just because these adults work with young people does not mean they have the same tastes and needs.
- There will be good and useful resources available that participants can take away from each session. YWA leaders will assume participants can read and not read through everything with them.
- No one church will be held up as a singular model. We are all sinful and in need of God’s grace. The Holy Spirit is working in the midst all of our churches. Moreover, churches of different sizes, demographics and cultures will be considered and addressed.
- Participants will be recognized as already involved in faithful and Spirit-filled ministries. Their contributions – spoken and material – will be honored.
- Youth work can be a lonely ministry at times. Adults will be given the chance to connect with each other, share, lament and generally build up the Body of Christ.
- There will be no cheese-ball stuff. Youth ministry has enough of that already.
YWA Design Team
- Rev. Laurie Taylor Weicher
- Rev. Erika Funk
- Rev. John Weicher
- Katherine Mealor