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    Youth Specialties Sacramento

    Posted on Saturday 11 October 2008 by Greg @ 7:34 pm
    Filed under: Rants

    I’m at the airport right now…just finishing up my time training at Youth Specialties in Sacramento. It was a great 32 hours here at YS. I got to teach “The X Factor…transforming your youth group through Deep and Wide ministry.” We had a pretty solid showing our for this late afternoon workshop. Today I was meeting with key friends and partners and got to do a podcast with Jonathan McKee. It was on “The 7 deadly sins of replacing sharing your faith with social justice.” It was about an overcorrection that I see transpiring in youth ministry that is moving almost completely away from proclamational evangelism and moving totally into the St. Francis evangelism-without-words kind. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for feeding the poor (last year Dare 2 Share attendees collected 125 tons of canned food for food banks across America!) We just need to make sure we feed the whole person, not just their stomach, but their soul as well…with The Bread of Life of course!

    But I digress.

    To be honest I absolutely LOVE training youth leaders at events like this. At our Dare 2 Share conferences it’s kind of hard to connect with youth leaders. But these kinds of events are made for connecting, communicating and just chillin’ with my youth leader homeboys.

    Monday I hit the road again to the north west to do some more youth leader training. I’ll be in Seattle for a Tuesday youth leader luncheon and on Wednesday I’ll be in Portland. Both of these trainings are free and come complete with a tasty lunch! If you are interested in checking out my “How to turn your youth group into a reality series” training session on either day check out this link for more info.

    I’ll be in Chicago next week for the same training. Click it here if you are a White Sox fan (or even if you are among the brave who still love The Cubs) and want some training tools to help you in windy city youth ministry.

    See you soon!

    Signed, Greg Stier
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    9 Comments for 'Youth Specialties Sacramento'

    1. On October 12, 2008 @ 5:08 pm Jon said:
      • I appreciate your desire to reach the Youth for Christ. I share your desire and believe it is a great responsibilty given to us by God.
        http://evangelizetheyouth.com/

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    2. On October 13, 2008 @ 2:04 pm Rose said:
      • That’s good your going to all those places and getting connected with the youth leaders.I’m a Cubs and Bears fan.I’m originally from Chicago,actually. =) Have a good time there!!

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    3. On October 14, 2008 @ 2:39 pm Melinda said:
      • I hope you enjoyed the Northwest. That is my “home” and I miss the beauty of it all! I now live in Iowa, the Lord’s doing, and I believe that one of the reasons God has brought my husband and I to Iowa is to work with the youth! Praise God!!!

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    4. On October 14, 2008 @ 7:48 pm Daniel said:
      • You’re absolutely right about the error of replacing the proclamation of Christ with Social Justice. But we can’t throw the baby out with the bath water. I think there must be a balance – the proclamation of Christ and our faith, WITH caring for the poor, needy, and outcast of society. Our call to care for the poor is a great call – but one we must do in the name of God, while proclaiming His Son. On a related note… why did God destroy Sodom… (Ezekiel 16:49) most folks do not realize.

        Greg – have you read either of Shane Claiborne’s books (Irresistible Revolution -or- Jesus for President)?

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    5. On October 16, 2008 @ 11:10 pm bindiandrusty said:
      • Hey, I know this is totally unrelated to the blog, but I have no idea of how else to get ahold of Greg…(I sure do hope he reads this). I just watched a couple of AMAZING videos of this guy named Louie Giglio talking about the awesomeness of how God created the universe. He talks about some of the intricacies and the vast enormousness of all that is out there. These vidoes are 40-60 min. long b/c they are like “sermons” i guess you’d call them, but they are absolutely mind-boggling!!! I think you should use them in your Dare 2 Share Ministries, or at least part of them. Right now, I dare you (Greg and any other bloggers) to Google “the Whirlpool Galaxy,” and see what the first picture is to pop up. The blue-ish blob thing wiht a black blob in the middle. That is the black hole in the center of the whirlpool galaxy. Now, look a little closer…what does it look like to you? Also, look up the protein “laminin”. What does that look like to you? And read up on it a little closer, and see what its purpose is. Pretty amazing, huh? His website is 268generation.com and I think it would be incredible if you used some of this stuff in Dare 2 Share conferences.

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    6. On October 30, 2008 @ 1:33 pm Nick Ford said:
      • Where can I find the “The 7 deadly sins of replacing sharing your faith with social justice” podcast? I’d really like to watch that.

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    7. On October 30, 2008 @ 2:42 pm Greg said:
      • That should be coming up on http://www.thesource4ym.com soon!

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