Introduction to the Praxis of Youth Ministry

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This course considers zones of formation for youth (middle school through early college) including family, school, church, and extracurricular participation as well as the impact of mass social and cultural forces. It fashions ministry responses that attend to young people's gifts and vulnerabilities including both the provision of safe, inclusive community and cultivating their agency. The course also attends to perennial concerns for the formation of Christian identity and vocation, ministry practices for and with youth, to the place of youth ministry within family, church, and (if appropriate) school, and the role of adults in youth ministry.