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Here are a few pictures from PDYM 2009…more to come soon!

Live Blogging Session 6
Doug Fields: Discipleship

1. Discipleship cannot be reduced to programs and people
Discipleship can be viewed as 50% Relational 50% Educational
If student’s faith is married to a program or a person, when they are gone, their faith is gone
2. An “On Your Own” Discipleship philosophy is a top down philosophy
A Discipleship Strategy is the [...]

Live Blogging Session 5
Doug Fields: Fellowship

1. Smaller is better when focusing on Fellowship (building relationships)
Christ had a group of 12 but invested in 3
Figure out how to make “Large” Feel “Small”
2. Volunteer leaders are better than paid leaders.
Paid leaders’ main focus should be to develop other volunteer youth workers, the volunteers job is to love [...]

Live Blogging Session 4
Doug Fields: Worship

There is a direct connection between Evangelism and Worship
We need to expand our focus of worship to celebrating God
Genuine Celebration is attractive and makes a heartfelt connection with unbelievers
We have to be careful not to create a “Club” mentality in our environments
Be aware of your audience.
Work hard for an understandable [...]

Live Blogging Session 3
Doug Fields: Evangelism

An evangelistic student ministry will have evangelistic adult leaders
Evangelistic leaders  NEVER stop ringing the evangelistic bell
You can either be a “best friend” or you can be a leader
No one values what you value as much as you value it.
Evangelistic baby steps create momentum
There is not just one way to be [...]

Live Blogging Session 2
Doug Fields

Purpose Driven Ministry has Godly leaders.
If your Ministry is bottle necked take a look at your ministry, it may be because of you.
Discovering God’s Purposes Begin with God’s Word. (The Great Commission & The Great Commandment)
You have to own the Purposes of your ministry, no one will bleed it like you!
If [...]

Live Blogging Session 1
Doug Fields

Food is a value in student ministry at Saddleback
Their Student Ministry was not built around theater seats and a Refinery Student Building
Student Ministry should be simply built on a dependence of God’s Power
There are a lot of Small Values for Student Ministry:
#1 Be Faithful in the Small Things
#2 Have Small Faith
Saddleback [...]

I’m headed to Atlanta today to go see my Grandparents. Tomorrow morning I’ll be strapping my wings on to fly to So Cal forPDYM the Conference. Yes, I could just fly there on my own since I am Superman, but what fun would that be? If I have trouble with my Jetpack I’ll grab a [...]