Most workers with youth and young adults in the Philippines tend to approach their job via trial and error. There is a lack of training for youth workers. As such, they tend to rely on intuition in handling their own youth ministry. This is further complicated by the lack of formal training in youth ministry in Bible Schools and the Seminary. Unlike in the United States, most churches do not have youth pastors. As such, youth work usually falls on the shoulders of the church deaconesses and young pastors.
The goals of the Filipino Youth Ministry Forum are:
1. Explore the biblical, theological and practical bases for youth ministry.
2. Equip youth workers with knowledge and skills they can use in handling their own youth ministry.
3. Expound on the present plight of Filipino youth and how the church could respond to these trends and issues.
4. Initiate the workers with youth into a network so as to support each other as they conduct their youth ministries.
Date: November 26, 2009 (Thursday)
Venue: Harris Memorial College, Dolores, Taytay
Registration Fee: P150
Who Should Attend:
Deaconesses, Pastors and Lay Persons who are involved in Ministries with Youth and Young Adults
Youth and young adult leaders seeking to learn ways to engage in ministry with their peers
Anybody who’s interested
Program
7:30 – 8:30 Registration
8:30 – 9:00 Opening Devotion and Orientation
9:00 – 10:15 Plenary: The Task of the Youth Worker: A Biblical, Theological and Practical View
Rev. Homer Wesley O. Refuerzo
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 11:30 Interactive Session
Creative and Effective Church Ministry with Youth
– Pastor Melvin Jay Guerrero
11:30 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 Interactive Session 2
Ministry with Youth in the Campus
– Mr. Kevin Sanders, Campus Missionary
2:30 – 3:00 Break
3:00 – 4:30 Plenary: Filipino Youth and Young Adults: Towards a Filipino Framework of Youth Ministry
Mighty C. Rasing, Division on Ministries with Young People
4:30 – 5:00 Fellowship
The Forum will have two plenary sessions: the first one deals with the Biblical and theological bases of youth ministry as well as practical matters that youth ministers need to attend to. This session will set the tone of the Youth Ministry Forum.
The last plenary session will deal with the profile of Filipino youth and young adults and expound on the need for a Filipino framework of youth ministry. This plenary session will integrate the different sessions of the Forum and look at the possibility of arriving at a more integrated approach to Filipino youth ministry. It will also be a call to action for youth ministers to be more intentional and focus more on discipleship.
The Interactive Sessions present a number of contexts where young people may be found: in the Church, in the School, outside the school, and in their online worlds. This first installment of the Filipino Youth Ministry Forum deals with ministries with young people in the local church and campus settings. As this Forum grows, it will seek to address additional ministry settings with young people. With these sessions, the youth ministers will learn more about tools and strategies on how to engage Filipino young people in these different settings and contexts.
Target Results
This forum will become the seed towards the establishment of a Methodist youth worker movement in the Philippines. Such a movement will also be a means for Methodist youth ministries to engage other ministries and the world at large, providing a venue for the discussion of youth ministry strategies and tools in contemporary Philippine society. Such a movement can also empower ecumenical youth ministry and the sharing of resources, insights and stories with other young people’s ministries in other faith traditions.
This event will also enable the DMYP to be exposed and generate buzzwords about its ministries and how youth ministries and youth workers can avail of the resources and ministries of DMYP.
REGISTER NOW by visiting this link.
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