Toronto & GTA Youth Workers!

Start your fall ministry off in the right direction by focusing on you before you start pouring your life into your students all year!

come experience One.Day of encouragement and practical youth ministry training with your team while discovering the basic tools needed for you to have a strong ministry year.

Facilitated Topics:

• relational youth ministry. (not another program right!?!) 

• what relational youth ministry looks like in your context.

• uncovering the lost art of mentoring.

• discipleship: shaping students for God's mission.

When? Saturday, September 24, from 10am - 4pm

Where? Morningstar Christian Fellowship, 7601 Sheppard Avenue East (Sheppard/Morningside), Scarborough

How Much? $10

Google+ has intrigued me and I’m very curious what you think. I've seen a lot of Google+ action happening over the past few weeks and several people experimenting with it. I received my official invite from a friend last week and started my own experimentation this past weekend.

Many people (my wife included) were slow to the “Facebook world” because they didn’t want more guilt for not being able to respond to everyone. I settled on a “group” page (www.facebook.com/thinkyouthministry), but even that is getting confusing to me because I was recently able to get my actual name (www.facebook.com/jeffreysmyth) on Facebook and now all my friends have found me there. Argh!

So far, I like Google+. I like the ability to filter people into groups (i.e. family, friends, youth workers, my small group, etc…). It seems more manageable, but I’m not sure people will embrace it since 1/6 of the planet is on Facebook.

What do you think?

If we are honest, evangelism in youth ministry is scary. For some it comes naturally, yet for others (like me) it's like snot on a doorknob. It's hard to explain, hard to make it a part of the DNA of your youth ministry and hold to on too.