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    Guidelines Ministries with Young People: Empower Youth and Young Adults in Ministry
    Guidelines Ministries with Young People: Empower Youth and Young Adults in Ministry
    Guidelines Ministries with Young People: Empower Youth and Young Adults in Ministry
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    Guidelines Ministries with Young People: Empower Youth and Young Adults in Ministry

    By Cokesbury

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    You have been called to ministry with young people—those journeying through adolescence and those emerging from their teenage years to find themselves navigating the unpredictable and full-of-firsts years of their twenties and thirties. This sacred and exciting leadership role comes with dozens of challenges to be addressed, countless opportunities to touch lives, and a myriad of blessings that you might never anticipate. Your position as a leader with young people is the basis for building relationships and leading by example. This Guideline, formerly called Young Peoples Ministries, covers an introduction to the ministry of a youth or young adult coordinator and is designed to help implement and guide the work of the ministry area.

    This is one of the twenty-six Guidelines for Leading Your Congregation 2017-2020 that cover church leadership areas including Church Council and Small Membership Church; the administrative areas of Finance and Trustees; and ministry areas focused on nurture, outreach, and witness including Worship, Evangelism, Stewardship, Christian Education, age-level ministries, Communications, and more.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCokesbury
    Release dateNov 15, 2016
    ISBN9781501830099
    Guidelines Ministries with Young People: Empower Youth and Young Adults in Ministry

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      Guidelines Ministries with Young People - Cokesbury

      Blessed to Be a Blessing

      If you are reading this Guideline, you have said yes to servant leadership in your church. You are blessed to be a blessing. What does that mean?

      By virtue of our baptism by water and the Spirit, God calls all Christians to faithful discipleship, to grow to maturity in faith (see Ephesians 4). The United Methodist Church expresses that call in our shared mission to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world (The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church, or the Discipline, ¶120). Each local congregation and community of faith lives out that call in response to its own context—the wonderful and unique combination of God-given human and material resources with the needs of the community, within and beyond the congregation.

      The work of servant leaders—your work—is to open a way for God to work through you and the resources available to you in a particular ministry area, for you are about God’s work. As stewards of the mysteries of God (see 1 Corinthians 4:1), servant leaders are entrusted with the precious and vital task of managing and using God’s gifts in the ongoing work of transformation.

      In The United Methodist Church, we envision transformation occurring through a cycle of discipleship (see the Discipline, ¶122). With God’s help and guidance, we

      •reach out and receive people into the body of Christ,

      •help people relate to Christ through their unique gifts and circumstances,

      •nurture and strengthen people in their relationships with God and with others,

      •send transformed people out into the world to lead transformed and transforming lives,

      •continue to reach out, relate, nurture, and send disciples . . .

      Every ministry area and group, from finance to missions, engages in all aspects of this cycle. This Guideline will help you see how that is true for the ministry area or group you now lead. When you begin to consider all of the work you do as ministry to fulfill God’s mission through your congregation, each task, report, and conversation becomes a step toward transforming the world into the kingdom of God.

      Invite Christ into the process to guide your ministry. You are doing powerful and wonderful work. Allow missteps to become learning opportunities; rejoice in success. Fill your work with the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Galatians 5:22-23).

      God blesses you with gifts, skills, and experience. You are a blessing when you allow God to work through you to make disciples and transform the world. Thank you.

      (Find additional help in the Resources section at the end of this Guideline, in The Book of Discipline, and through http://www.umc.org.)

      Called to Ministry with Young People

      You have been called to ministry with young people: those journeying through adolescence and those emerging from their teenage years to find themselves navigating the unpredictable and full-of-firsts years of their 20s and 30s. This sacred and exciting leadership role comes with dozens of challenges to be addressed, countless opportunities to touch lives, and myriad blessings that you might never anticipate. Get ready for the journey of a lifetime!

      Your ministry may be well established or newly formed, flourishing or struggling, transforming lives or currently just marking time. Wherever you find yourself, you are in a position to work with others to offer vital and life-changing ministry. Your work may begin with young people already in your church and will certainly expand beyond the walls to their friends, the community, and an unlimited realm of possibility.

      One of the key ways we develop new leaders is through the core process for carrying out our mission as stated in ¶122 of The Book of Discipline:

      We make disciples as we:

      •proclaim the gospel, seek, welcome and gather persons into the body of Christ;

      •lead persons to commit their lives to God through baptism by water and the spirit and profession of faith in Jesus Christ;

      •nurture persons in Christian living through worship, the sacraments, spiritual disciplines, and other means of grace, such as Wesley’s Christian conferencing;

      •send persons into the world to live lovingly and justly as servants of Christ by healing the sick, feeding the hungry, caring for the stranger, freeing the oppressed, being and becoming a compassionate, caring presence, and working to develop social structures that are consistent with the gospel; and

      •continue the mission of seeking, welcoming and gathering persons into the community of the body of Christ.

      To better remember and understand the core process as written in ¶122, think in terms of H.O.P.E.—Hospitality, Opportunity, Purpose, and Engagement. Through these discipleship paths of H.O.P.E., new disciples are made and sent out to reach even more persons to bring into the body of Christ. We go into the

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