What role will youth ministry play in the 21st Century? That’s a daunting question, and one that everyone in youth ministry is asking. With global economic shifts, fragmented families, financial strain on the home and the church, and the apparent ineffectiveness of youth ministry long-term, it is a question we need to wrestle with together.

What are some of the adjustments that need to be made to how we have thought about age-group ministry? What have we done well? What have we done poorly?

If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a church to make a disciple. Come join us in our discussion as we discover ways that youth ministry can remain a viable discipling tool of the church, while providing a bridge that brings together the generations.

The Youth Ministry Center is facilitated monthly by Prof. Mark Holcomb, Professor of Youth Ministry and the Leadership Center in the School of Theology and Christian Ministry at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Illinois.