Pictures from PDYM 2009

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

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Live Blogging PDYM the Conference Session 6

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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 HABITS
  • H = Hangout with God
  • A = Accountability with Another Believer
  • B = Bible Memorization
  • I = Involvement in the Church Body
  • T = Tithing Commitment
  • S = Study Scripture
  • 3. Expectations without experimentation= Frustration
  • Its better to teach people to fish versus giving them a fish
  • 4. Discipleship Never Ends
  • The PDYM model focuses on Discipleship as a Process versus a Program
  • Connecting students to an adult leader makes the difference

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Live Blogging PDYM the Conference Session 5

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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 on kids.
  • 3. Shepherds are Better than Chaperons
  • 4. Better is Better – Tweak, Twist, Don’t Settle
  • Messy people need a small group
  • “If you build a place where Students can share their hurts and pain, they will come” – Megan Hutchinson
  • “Hurt and abandonment in teenagers in pandemic in our world today and in our youth groups–every single teen hurts.” Megan Hutchinson
  • “Pain is always top down” – Hutchinson
  • If the church doesn’t do anything to help the hurting, who will?
  • There is more than one way to do small groups
  • Small Group leaders need to be set up for success
  • Empower small group leaders to be their kids’ youth pastor
  • Small Groups rise and fall based on their leader
  • Small Groups are the Bridge to the next steps (Discipleship – Ministry)
  • The bottom line is to cultivate relational capital – Ben Taylor

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Live Blogging PDYM the Conference Session 4

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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 message.
  • Value Fun…What is our element of “Fun?”
  • A Front door program should be about relationships, relationships, relationships
  • The Entry Level Program can be broken down to 3 key focal areas: 1. The people 2. The place (environment) 3. The program
  • Worship is a part of everything students do. – Latasha Morrison
  • “Dont think like a youth pastor, think like a church planter” – Jason Gerdes

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Live Blogging PDYM the Conference Session 3

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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 evangelical in your ministry
  • R: Reveal
  • E: Extend an Invitation
  • A: Ask if you can share your story
  • C: Communicate the How and Why of beginning a Relationship with Christ
  • H: Help them
  • Changed Lives are Evangelistic
  • Allow students to own the responsibility of sharing Christ with their friends

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Live Blogging PDYM the Conference Session 2

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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 we push people to be evangelistic, we have to be that way ourselves
  • Biblical Purposes will clarify a ministries existence
  • There are several ways to say the same thing
  • Biblical Purposes will minimize conflict in your ministry
  • Biblical Purposes will help create excitement
  • A ministry guided by Biblical purposes is not easy to build…but its healthy
  • People unite under a vision that is bigger than their own
  • Will your ministry pursue Biblical Purposes?
  • Evaluate: Do the people in your ministry get the Biblical Purposes for your Ministry? (Leaders, Students, Parents, Staff, Etc.)
  • You cannot fit all of the Biblical Purposes into one Program. Make sure each Program/Process has 1 Primary & 1 Secondary purpose
  • A lot of churches are using a discipleship method on students who are being forced to be at church, so it doesn’t work.

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Live Blogging PDYM the Conference Session 1

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Live Blogging Session 1

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  • 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 could give their new building back and still do student ministry
  • Value a God who is Sovereign
  • Value providing Students Opportunities to serve where they are gifted and passionate
  • Value Volunteers
  • Value Longevity, people not giving up.
  • Value Relationships:
  • Value an Intimate Relationship with Christ
  • Value Relationships with Parents
  • Value Relationships with other Leaders
  • Value Relationships with Students
  • Saddleback does not want you to be like them, they want you to be who God wants you to be.
  • What is important to you right now in ministry?
  • Do people know what’s important to you?

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I’ve Got My Wings On

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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 flight on Delta. I can’t wait to get out to Cali with all of my friends and mostly to promote PDYM Kingdom Day which is huge! For more info you can check out http://www.kingdomday.com

I’ve got some big announcements coming soon that have not made it to my blog yet, but its going to be HUGE!!! Everything in its proper time :)

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