Here are a few pictures from PDYM 2009…more to come soon!
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Live Blogging PDYM the Conference Session 6
March 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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
March 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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
March 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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
March 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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
March 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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
March 24, 2009 By 1 Comment
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 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
March 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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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