2010 Workshops-Youth

Track	Room	Title and Description	Faculty
Youth	105	Truth is Not Ice Cream Are your students moral relativists? Do they think Christianity is just one of many valid religious options? This workshop will help you assess whether or not your students are infected with relativism. We'll examine the serious consequences of relativism on faith and how we can ground students in God's truth.	Brett Kunkle
Youth	103	Help! I Need More Volunteers! How to Get Them and How to Keep Them If your youth group has all the volunteers you need, don't attend this workshop. This workshop is designed to explore targeted volunteer recruitment and develop a strategy of invitation to reach the best people to fill your volunteer positions. Discover equipping methods to enlist more people in ministry.	Group Publishing
Youth	104	Where Do I Start? Youth ministry is complicated. Don't waste your limited time. Ask the right questions and start hitting home runs right away.	Mike Schaufler
Youth	104	Building and Development of Your Leadership Team What steps do you take in developing and equipping a team to help lead your ministry?	Brian Holland
Youth	105	Why I Take Students to Berkeley How would your students' faith stand up to an atheist college professor? How would yours? Find out in this interactive session. We'll examine current atheistic arguments and glean insights from Brett's one-of-a-kind mission trips to Berkeley on how to effectively train students to defend their faith.	Brett Kunkle
Youth	105	Helping Students to Handle Personal Conflicts This is a practical workshop designed to help youth leaders teach their students how to handle personal conflicts. We will examine common problems that lead to conflicts at church and home and discuss various methods to improve community.	Richard Chung
Youth	104	How Do I Get There? Recreate Jesus' style of teaching and life change events in your culture and calendar.	Mark Schaufler
Youth	107	Ministry for the Long Haul – Finishing the Race Well Learn from a veteran youth pastor how to deal with success and failure in ministry and how to measure the difference.	Mike Shipman
Youth	105	How to Develop and Train Student Leaders This is a practical workshop on how to build up and equip a core group of students to serve within their own fellowship. We will look at critical components such as training, equipping, mentoring and service. (Repeat Sat. 2:30)	Richard Chung
Youth	104	Entertainment Vs. Discipleship Find out how to move your youth ministry beyond merely fun and games and spectatorship into involvement and commitment.	Brian Holland
Youth	104	Essential Leadership Despite an overload of leadership theories, strategies and books, often in ministry we struggle to nail what's really essential for leading well. This interactive seminar will help shift our paradigm and practice of ministry leadership as we explore together three essential tasks for any servant who is called to lead.	Brad Griffin
Youth	204	Impacting the Next Generation through Relational Mentoring – Part I The greatest need in the church today is to make sure that our passion for God is passed on to the next generation. Relational mentoring is how we can rebuild this process by connecting our men's and women's ministries with our youth ministry by building relationships. This ministry is for anyone who is concerned about the next generation.	Randy Osborne
Youth	105	Creating Controlled Chaos Learn how to organize events that students beg for. God's truth is presented in an unforgettable way and all within the lowest budget. Based on John 12:49 hear how to push the boundaries on typical learning experiences.	Mark Schaufler
Youth	101	Building a Ministry of Encouragement, Support And Caring Bring healing and hope to a broken and hurting world. Are you lifting up others in their time of need? Sometimes even the most caring people are not sure how to help struggling friends or family. Encouragement and caring are tremendous sources of strength and hope. The truths taught in this workshop and put into action within youth groups and churches will give the ability to creatively discover ways to reach out to those within our churches and outside. This message of love and encouragement could not be more timely for our hurting world. A workshop for youth leaders, adult ministries and staff within the church.	Mike Slater
Youth	105	So Old It's New Look at Acts 2 as a model for your youth ministry.	Brian Holland
Youth	206	Mentoring Our Youth to Become Tomorrow's Leaders This workshop will encourage and help the local church set up programs and opportunities to reach, disciple and mentor the youth of the church and community to become tomorrow's Christian leaders.	Norm Tacklind
Youth	104	How to Develop And Train Student Leaders This is a practical workshop on how to build up and equip a core group of students to serve within their own fellowship. We will look at critical components such as training, equipping, mentoring and service.	Richard Chung
Youth	105	No Lone Rangers Ministry is not done in isolation. Or at least, that's not God's design. But how can we build strong youth ministy teams that share the work of the minisry? This seminar will give you practical help.	Brett Kunkle
Youth	107	Faith for Life: Moving from Borrowed Faith to An Owned Faith Have your teens made a connection between their church experience and their real life? Is church relevant to the daily life of teenagers? Do your teenagers believe they are the hands and feet of Jesus in the world today? Discover ways to help make Jesus relevant in their daily lives.	Group Publishing
Youth	105	Who's Waiting for Your Kids? This talk will open your eyes to the reality of the secular college campus and its aggressive assault on the faith of our students. In addition we will examine recent data suggesting our students are ill-equipped for such challenges and then discuss what we can do about it.	Brett Kunkle
Youth	104	Evangelism for Students Who Aren't Evangelists Put realistic tools in their hands and develop attainable strategies for evangelism in your youth ministry.	Mark Schaufler