A Costly Thing To Waste
A very fine article from Bruce Main of UrbanPromise about youth development including a utilitarian point of view, courtesy of Prism Magazine. A Costly Thing To Waste
Online course in urban youth ministry
Rachael Jarboe of City Vision College sent the following note regarding an online course in urban youth ministry City Vision will offer beginning January 2. BTW, The Salvation Army and City Vision work together in placement of interns in several Army locations around the Midwest. I wanted to to let you know that City Vision … Read more
Chicago’s Children
Alex Kotlowitz visited us one evening when we were corps officers at Chicago Temple Corps. Here’s a Chicago Tribune article last month about how he was changed by his experience writing the book There Are No Children Here. Kotlowitz came to speak to the leaders and workers who staffed our Tuesday evening programs for young people. … Read more
Back To School
Since the start of this millennium Detroit closed dozens of schools as the city’s population dropped 25% from 951,000 in 2000 to 714,000 in 2010. Detroit has squirmed in trying to deal with this crisis. Find alternatives to public education as we know it? What do we do for those whom the alternatives are not available? When … Read more
Learning the Lessons of the Cities
Read this month’s issue of the CCDA eNews for Noel Castellano’s article on church-planting’s growing adoption of Christian community development in poor neighborhoods. I’m always suspicious about plans to establish new corps (SA lingo for churches). For where and who? Financially self-sustaining congregations in well served and well resourced neighborhoods, built on households with incomes, education, social standing? Is this how we … Read more
Youth Work Training in Chicago – Reload At North Park
For details, visit the Reload Urban Youth Worker Conference website about a day of training at North Park University on Chicago’s north side, April 2, featuring Efrem Smith author of The Hip Hop Church.
Vacation Bible School and Urban Ministry
Date: 02/08/2011 09:43 AM Subject: VBS Curriculum for Urban Youth Majors Phil and Gail, We’re looking at doing a Spring Break VBS for kids in our neighborhood. The thing that we are thinking about is what kind of curriculum to use. There seems to be an abundance of curriculum for white middle class kids, and … Read more
US Census: changing diversity among youth
The New York Times reported today on new information from the US Census: younger Americans are far less white than older generations; in ten states white are a minority of the youth population (Arizona is one of the states) The number of whites under the age of 20 fell by 6 percent between 2000 and 2008 … Read more
