Youth Ministry Shaping the Future of the Church

July 26, 2010

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My bias, however, is that every pastor is a youth minister. In fact, if you take the baptismal vows seriously, every member of a congregation is a youth minister. I don't want a single church leader graduating from seminary without thinking of himself or herself as someone whose ministry includes young people. Youth are in our congregations, and in our communities; how can we not be in ministry together?

Read the rest of the interview with Kenda Creasy Dean on youth ministry and the mainline church here.

Kenda Creasy Dean is an ordained elder in the Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference (United Methodist) and professor of youth, church, and culture at Princeton Theological Seminary, where she works closely with the Institute for Youth Ministry. A graduate of Wesley Theological Seminary, she served as pastor in suburban Washington, D.C. and as Wesley foundation director at the University of Maryland-College Park before coming to Princeton Seminary. She is the author of several books, including The Godbearing Life: The Art of Soul-Tending for Youth Ministry, Practicing Passion: Youth and the Quest for a Passionate Church, and Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church.

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