CED775 — Innovations: Cultivating Youth Spirituality in Experiential Environments
Mike King/Summer 2012
June 25-29 at Youthfront Camp and online 7/2-7/30
Catalog Description
Exploratory course designed to explore and assess innovative approaches to ministry surfacing in periodic, non-traditional, contexts.
Course Narrative & Rationale
Explorations into the contemporary spiritual lives of youth afford youth ministers an opportunity to develop new and innovative approaches to spiritual formation both for and with adolescents. This course explores one such approach to youth spirituality and youth spiritual formation through intensive settings such as retreats, pilgrimages, short term missions and camp ministries. The course utilizes one of the more innovative approaches to youth formation occurring through YouthFront a national youth ministry resource with specialized camp ministries just south of Kansas City. http://www.youthfront.com/directions This course allows participants the opportunity to explore the spiritual lives of youth, engage in formation practices with youth alongside recreational settings, and imagine the possibilities of similar ministry approaches in their own contexts.
The course includes an intensive, one week, situated learning experience at YouthFront South exploring youth spirituality while engaging youth and youth leaders on the journey. Special fee required for staying at the camp (required for all students). For more information contact NTS or Dr. Dean Blevins, director of the MACFD program.
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