Live Blogging PDYM the Conference Session 2

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.

March 24, 2009March 27, 2009

Live Blogging PDYM the Conference Session 1

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?

March 23, 2009

I’ve Got My Wings On

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 🙂

March 16, 2009March 16, 2009

A Thunderous Roar

This past weekend the CSRA Youth Ministry Network hosted the 2009 DNOW for our local area. Typically each student ministry that participates in the local DNOW schedules a fun activity on Saturday morning/afternoon for their students to have a little fun as a group. This year we wanted our students to definitely have fun, but we wanted to use this weekend where we had 700+ students’ attention to engage them in opportunities to live beyond themselves and to invest in the lives of other people. After all, the theme was “Your Kingdom Come” and it seemed very appropriate to initiate service projects for the students to participate in.

I am a firm believer that a huge part of our spiritual discipleship has to do with our engaging in ministry and actually doing the things that we’ve been told in scripture to do. Studys have proven that the stuff we learn has been retained in our memory based on 1 part data and 6 parts emotion, essentially we remember what we experience. Therefore when we talk about discipleship, I don’t think we can remove elements that provide experience in what we are learning.

Saturday night was dynamic! The praise coming from this group of students sounded at times like a thunderous roar. In all of the local youth events, I cannot remember students so in tune with who God was at that moment in their life. I truly believe that Matt Papa is anointed and we had the privilege of having his band lead us in worship, but I mostly believe Saturday night had a lot to do with the response from earlier in the day where students were engaged in what God is all about, living sacrificially and loving other people.

I believe this picture with my buddy Steve White best sums up what the day was all about…

January 13, 2009August 23, 2009

PDYM the Conference: Worth the Money

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I am really excited about PDYM the Conference and can’t wait to head out to Saddleback Church to attend on March 24-27. Okay, maybe I’m a little excited about getting to eat at Wahoos and In and Out Burger too 😉

With my budget being tighter this year it made me think twice about spending the money to attend a conference.

But I know the training that I’ll get, the people I’ll get to rub shoulders with, and the fact that Doug Fields will be teaching all the general sessions makes it more than worth the cost of going, plus its in Southern California! 🙂 (Did you know you can follow Doug’s personal Twitter account? Click HERE)

I really think it’s worth you joining me at the PDYM Conference! If you want more info about the conference you can go to http://www.pdymcommunity.org/ or just leave a comment on my blog and I’d love to tell you more about it myself.

See you there!