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"Leaders lead people. Visions lead leaders. As we were taught the importance of having specific visions for our own contexts as church leaders, we are reminded of what our contexts need, be it as students or young professionals."

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Young people have a way of seeing endless possibilities and needs in their communities. Funds like these have global impacts in health, spiritual formation, and outreach.

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Grants for Ministries With Young People

Young People’s Min­istries offers these grants through our pro­gram bud­get because we believe that dynam­ic, cre­ative indi­vid­u­als and groups some­times need resources to help a min­istry become real­i­ty. These grants are meant to sup­port cre­ative and inno­v­a­tive approach­es to min­istry for, with, and by young peo­ple. These appli­ca­tions are often cho­sen for their abil­i­ty to cre­ate sys­tems and mod­els, which cre­ate mean­ing­ful min­istry and dis­ci­ple­ship…
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Today’s disciples need to find those who are vulnerable, voiceless, poor, and despised and immerse themselves in service. – Everyday Disciples

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Camp Highroad

Camp High­road is a year round retreat facil­i­ty offer­ing lodges, cab­ins and camp­ing sites to many church­es, Girls and Boys scouts and schools. In the sum­mer we run our own sum­mer camp and also offer…
  • Food Provided
  • All Ages / Intergenerational
  • Middleburg, Virginia
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The Rules for Youth Ministry

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The Rules for Youth Ministry: #1 – Be Easy to Work With

For the pod­cast episode this arti­cle is based on, lis­ten to Youth Work­er Col­lec­tive.We’re slow­ly rolling out some ​“Rules for Youth Min­istry” to help lead­ers cre­ate bet­ter oppor­tu­ni­ties for dis­ci­ple­ship through their min­istry AND increase the odds for a min­istry leader to stay around for a while. As Mor­pheus from…

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The Rules for Youth Ministry #2: Be Yourself

We’re slow­ly rolling out some ​“Rules for Youth Min­istry” to help lead­ers cre­ate bet­ter oppor­tu­ni­ties for dis­ci­ple­ship through their min­istry AND increase the odds for a min­istry leader to stay around for a while. As Mor­pheus from The Matrix (for the clas­sic movie fans out there) would say…” Some rules…

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The Rules for Youth Ministry #3: Live Your Title

We’re slow­ly rolling out some ​“Rules for Youth Min­istry” to help lead­ers cre­ate bet­ter oppor­tu­ni­ties for dis­ci­ple­ship through their min­istry AND increase the odds for a min­istry leader to stay around for a while. As Mor­pheus from The Matrix (for the clas­sic movie fans out there) would say… ​“Some rules…

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