“Youth Ministry 2010” is a symposium focusing on youth ministry that will challenge you to think outside the box.  It’s a practical, “no-frills” conference where the message is the focus.  YM 2010 promises to help you confront the vagaries of teenage spirituality at a time when even professing Christians don’t seem to know what they are talking about.  How would your teens answer Jesus if He were to ask them, “Who do you say that I am?”  The conference formally starts with lunch at 12:30 on Friday, January 8.  On Friday morning, a “youth ministry practicum” will be hosted on site.   There is no additional charge for the practicum.  The conference will conclude on Sunday by 11:00 A.M.  The conference includes two key-note presenters and a process for applying what is presented in congregational settings.  Worship and fellowship round out the program.

According to George Barna, a worldview serves as a person’s decision-making filter enabling them to make sense of the complex and huge amount of information, experiences, relationship and opportunities they face in life.  Today, people, including teenagers, seem to develop an amorphous view of things that often leaves God out of the picture.

DR. ADAM FRANCISCO, on the faculty of Concordia Theological Seminary, Ft. Wayne, IN, will help us to understand the concept of a worldview and to explore the variety of worldviews that populate our world.  

Adam is the author of One God, Many God’s, Faith on the Edge: The Quest for Spirituality, and Heroes of  the Faith, all published by CPH.

BRAD ALLES, on the faculty at Milwaukee Lutheran High School, will help guide participants in how to help teens develop a Christian worldview and use it to define their life and make decisions.

DR. CRAIG OLDENBURG, Director of Mt. Cross Lutheran Camp, Felton, CA,  will lead a very practical process of making the whole conversation  mean something back home.  It’s the “what does this mean” part of the program.

The cost is just $200 for the entire conference which includes lunch on Friday and Saturday and breakfast on Sunday.The cost is just $200 for the entire conference which includes lunch on Friday and Saturday and breakfast on Sunday.