Ministry with non-Church Youth
DM413 / DM613 Ministry with Non-Church Youth
What is the best way to engage with the thousands of young people in your local community? Most of these young people will have never heard the gospel or even stepped within a church building. Ministry with non-Church youth provides the opportunity to wrestle with this question in a theological and practical way. This subject evaluates a number of different approaches to ministry with non-Church youth to develop specific aims, objectives, methods and strategies to meet the needs and opportunities of non-Church youth. This subject is ideal for current youth leaders, youth ministers, those working in youth para-church agencies and those training to be in key Christian leadership roles in the future.
Workload: One semester, 4 credit points, 39 contact hours.
Status: Elective.
Prerequisites: Nil.
When: Semester 2, 2011.
Who: Lisa Brown.
Recommended Texts: These text are not essentail for purchase, however there will be a number of class readings set from each text. They are also on reserve in the library.
- Moser, K., Youth Evangelism: Reaching Young People in a Way that Honours God (Sydney: Aquila, 2004).
- Rahn, D. & Linhart, T., Evangelism Remixed (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2009).
- Dickson, J., Promoting the Gospel (Sydney: Blue Bottle Books, 2005).
DM 413 / 613 ASSESSMENT
1. Ministry to Non-Churched Youth Strategy
Students are required to develop and justify a strategy for ministering to non-church youth in their local community. This can be addressed from a church or parachurch perspective and should be theologically and practically grounded.
Graduate students (Grad Dip Div, MDiv) are also required to address this question from a contextual perspective, integrating an in depth understanding of the surrounding local community when determining the strategy.
Word Count: Bmin / BTh: 3000
MDiv / GradDip: 3500
Contribution to Course: 70 %
Due Date: 26th October 2011
2. Ministry in Practice Evaluation:
BMin / BTh (2000 words)
Students are required to visit and evaluate at least one para-church, and at least one church-based program oriented to youth outside or on the fringes of the church from a theological and practical perspective.
MDiv / GradDip (2500 words)
Students are required to visit and evaluate at least one agency working with disadvantaged youth and student welfare work in both a state and a church secondary school. The evaluation should be addressed from a theological and practical perspective.
Contribution to Course: 30 %
Due Date: 14th September 2011
3. Mission with Young People
Students are required to be involved in 8 hours of evangelism to young people. This can be fulfilled in the following ways:
1. Participating in evangelism to young people through your church.
2. Meeting on-one-one with a non-churched young person to explain the gospel with them.
3. Being involved with a parachurch organisation in one of their evangelistic endeavours. Suggestions:
a. Mustard Lunchtime groups
b. Youth Dimension groups
c. Salvation army drop-in
d. St Lukes South Melbourne drop-in
e. Scripture Union camp or schools ministry
f. Youth alpha group
There must be someone present during this time to supervise your involvement and who can complete the supervision form. This element much be completed by the 26th of October and the supervisor’s form must be submitted through the registrar’s office on that date.
Due Date: 26th October 2011
SEMESTER TWO 2011 SCHEDULE
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Week |
Date |
Lecturer |
Lecture One 2.45 - 3.35pm |
Lecture Two 3.40 – 4.30pm |
Lecture Three 4.40 – 5.30pm |
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1 |
20th July |
Lisa Brown |
Introduction & Course Requirements |
Why do we do ministry to non-Church youth? |
Why do we do ministry to non-Church youth? |
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2
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27th July |
Lisa Brown |
What is our role in ministry with non-church youth? |
What is our role in ministry with non-church youth? |
What is our role in ministry with non-church youth? |
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3 |
3rd Aug |
Lisa Brown |
How should we do it? |
How should we do it? |
How should we do it? |
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4 |
10th Aug |
Lisa Brown |
Why, what, how continued |
Why, what, how continued |
Why, what, how continued |
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5 |
17th Aug |
Lisa Brown |
Church-based models of outreach |
Church-based models of outreach |
Church-based models of outreach |
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6 |
24th Aug |
Lisa Brown |
Field Trip |
Field Trip |
Field Trip |
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31ST Aug & 7th Sept: READING WEEKS - NO CLASSES |
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7 |
14th Sept |
Lisa Brown |
Parachurch models of outreach |
Parachurch models of outreach |
Parachurch models of outreach |
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8 |
21st Sept |
Lisa Brown |
Ministry in Practice Presentations |
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28th Sept: READING WEEK – NO CLASSES |
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9 |
5th Oct |
TBA |
The world that young people live in & their values |
The world that young people live in & their values |
The world that young people live in & their values |
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10 |
12th Oct |
Lisa Brown |
Communicating the gospel to young people |
Communicating the gospel to young people |
Communicating the gospel to young people |
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11
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19th Oct |
TBA |
The relationship between secular and Christian bodies |
The relationship between secular and Christian bodies |
The relationship between secular and Christian bodies |
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12
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26th Oct |
Lisa Brown |
Strategy for ministering to non-church youth |
Strategy for ministering to non-church youth |
Strategy for ministering to non-church youth |
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SWOT VAC |
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