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Hey guys where do you think that student ministries will be in the next ten to fifteen years? What strategies are you planning to be ahad of the wave when it comes? What hurdles will pastors have to overcome?

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0 Votes there's a youtube video called shift happens (please don't spell that wrong) that gives a view of technology growth over the years. As far as youth ministry goes, I see more churches getting away from programs and reaching into the New Testament realm. Kids are open to truth and are searching for it. They want something tangible, penetrating, personal, passionate, and pertinent. I see youth ministry getting more like the New Testament church. I think that the more technology advances, the bigger opportunity we have to reach out in a tangible, penetrating, personal, passionate, and pertinent way. Pastor Joe says pray. Adam says pray. David says pray. Paul told Thessaloniki to pray. Most importantly, God wants us to pray because God Is. by pastor e 3 years ago by pastor e 3 years ago
0 Votes I think, like Pastor Joe said, the first thing that we need to do is pray. We need to make sure we're as sharp as we can be spiritually as leaders. Next to that, I think that we need to be fluid. One of the most damaging things we can probably do (and could already be doing) is getting stuck in programs and methods that will no longer be effective in the next handful of years. We need to always be ready to adapt without compromising. They say that (especially in the tech field) most students now entering college will be placed, upon graduation, in job functions that don't exist yet, because of the rapid rate of tech growth. A parallel may exist in YM. New challenges and opps may not exist yet, but we need to be prepared when they come by Adam 3 years ago by Adam 3 years ago
0 Votes If culture continues to head in the downward spiral, it will be tougher to reach youth in that they will be even more cynical, jaded, and pulled away to the world. On the other hand, one if the constants with youth culture is that they always want to be different than their predecessors... maybe in this next generation of kids there will be more of a Christ- oriented movement? I agree w/ Pastor Joe that all we can do is pray and stay faithful to God and His calling on our lives by davidsa... 3 years ago by davidsaleeba 3 years ago
0 Votes I think the only thing we can do if be faithful to our calling, preach the word, live the word, pray, pray, pray and pray that we would be faithful to HIM! I have a 4 year old and 21 month old and I do not look forward to the stress and pressure they face from the world when they start going to school. Technology is growing by leaps and bounds and it seems that we are getting farther and farther away from the TRUTH of the scripture and putting our faith in things that do not have eternal value! by Pastor Joe 3 years ago by Pastor Joe 3 years ago
0 Votes Storm... it is really hard to say what we can expect in the next ten to fifteen years however the atmosphere of the holy spirit looks glim! Why because technology will have a better say then what you would or any other fellow for that matter, today the generation is slowly pulling away from Christ and rapidly plunging into a abyss of violence and dark natures!! Storm the generation I live in is by far a dark one people suggest that God never came rather than he left!! I'd like to see pastors rise against these challenges but with the technology rapidly growing the question is not one you can ask but one you must ask the father and yourself my brother! by Tyron G... 3 years ago by Tyron Gillum 3 years ago

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there's a youtube video called shift happens (please don't spell that wrong) that gives a view of technology growth over the years. As far as youth ministry goes, I see more churches getting away from programs and reaching into the New Testament realm. Kids are open to truth and are searching for it. They want something tangible, penetrating, personal, passionate, and pertinent. I see youth ministry getting more like the New Testament church. I think that the more technology advances, the bigger opportunity we have to reach out in a tangible, penetrating, personal, passionate, and pertinent way. Pastor Joe says pray. Adam says pray. David says pray. Paul told Thessaloniki to pray. Most importantly, God wants us to pray because God Is.

pastor e

3 years ago

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I think, like Pastor Joe said, the first thing that we need to do is pray. We need to make sure we're as sharp as we can be spiritually as leaders.
Next to that, I think that we need to be fluid. One of the most damaging things we can probably do (and could already be doing) is getting stuck in programs and methods that will no longer be effective in the next handful of years. We need to always be ready to adapt without compromising.
They say that (especially in the tech field) most students now entering college will be placed, upon graduation, in job functions that don't exist yet, because of the rapid rate of tech growth. A parallel may exist in YM. New challenges and opps may not exist yet, but we need to be prepared when they come

Adam

3 years ago

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If culture continues to head in the downward spiral, it will be tougher to reach youth in that they will be even more cynical, jaded, and pulled away to the world. On the other hand, one if the constants with youth culture is that they always want to be different than their predecessors... maybe in this next generation of kids there will be more of a Christ- oriented movement? I agree w/ Pastor Joe that all we can do is pray and stay faithful to God and His calling on our lives

davidsa...

3 years ago

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I think the only thing we can do if be faithful to our calling, preach the word, live the word, pray, pray, pray and pray that we would be faithful to HIM!

I have a 4 year old and 21 month old and I do not look forward to the stress and pressure they face from the world when they start going to school.

Technology is growing by leaps and bounds and it seems that we are getting farther and farther away from the TRUTH of the scripture and putting our faith in things that do not have eternal value!

Pastor Joe

3 years ago

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Storm... it is really hard to say what we can expect in the next ten to fifteen years however the atmosphere of the holy spirit looks glim!
Why because technology will have a better say then what you would or any other fellow for that matter, today the generation is slowly pulling away from Christ and rapidly plunging into a abyss of violence and dark natures!!
Storm the generation I live in is by far a dark one people suggest that God never came rather than he left!!
I'd like to see pastors rise against these challenges but with the technology rapidly growing the question is not one you can ask but one you must ask the father and yourself my brother!

Tyron G...

3 years ago

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