All posts about ‘youth’
Mission Trips: who or what changes?
Friday, July 16th, 2010
Brad A. Greenberg’s recent Wall Street Journal piece, “How Missionaries Lost Their Chariot of Fire,” has provoked a lot of comment–especially about the value of short-term mission trips. Greenberg quotes a study by Calvin College professor Kurt Verbeek about short-term missions in Honduras. In his comments on Greenberg’s story Verbeek agrees that today’s Christians are often [...]
Tags: mission trips, spiritual formation, youth
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Reflections on Symposium 2009 at Nurturing Faith
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Gale Tien of Christian Schools International blogged these reflections on Symposium 2009 at the Nurturing Faith blog: In January 2009, I had the privilege to participate in the Calvin College Symposium on Worship. My role was to be an observer at the day-long gathering of nearly 25 Christian High School Worship/Chapel Committees. This group of [...]
Tags: chapels, highschool, planning, spiritualformation, wsymp09, youth, z00005
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Christianity Today on 'Do Christian Schools Make Students More Religious?'
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
From Christianity Today: Parents deciding between religious and public schooling face many unknowns. One of the most important factors is how the schools might affect the faith of their children. Yet for all the debates over education, we know little about the effectiveness of Christian education on the spiritual lives of students. Students at religious [...]
Tags: education, News, spiritualformation, surveys, youth, z00003
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Presenter Previews: Mark Yaconelli at Symposium 2009
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Among over 70 presenters at this year’s Calvin Symposium on Worship will be Mark Yaconelli, director of the Youth Ministry and Spirituality Project at San Francisco Theological Seminary, and author of Contemplative Youth Ministry: Practicing the Presence of Jesus. Yaconelli will be leading a daylong seminar on Thursday on ‘Youth, Worship, and the Seven-Second Attention [...]
Tags: ministry, prespreviews09, spiritualformation, sympos09, youth
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