Stating the problem and pointing towards how we get youth ministry past paid staff and instead empower vocational youth workers.

1. Towards a Bigger We
a democratization of youth ministry

2. Church
Technology

3. Technology
Church

4. I. 3 forces at work
impacting ministry to
teenagers

5. The Inverse
Relationship

7. The numbers don’t
work

8. 0
7500000
15000000
22500000
30000000
Population
Teenagers in America (15-19) PaidYouth Workers

9. The history of youth
ministry & the
churches correction

10. Youth group doesn’t
work for everyone

11. 50 years of youth
ministry data…
90%
10%
interested in youth group not interest in youth group

12. II.
Where does that leave us?

13. Feeling Defeated

14. Feeling as though
we’ve been called to
something impossible

15. A crisis of faith:
Things that worked for us
don't seem to work anymore

16. III.
A solution

17. Re-embracing the
Parish

18. From the church of
choice to the church of
my neighborhood

19. How might we, the
lowly youth worker,
reach every teenager
in our community?

20. The answer is a
bigger we

21. IV.
The map of teenagers
relationships with the
adult world

22. Tim

23. Who shapes Tim’s
worldview?

24. Tim

25. Tim
grandpa
drake
best
friends
francis
chan
dreams
parents
english
teacher
hockey
coach
big
brother
pastor

26. V.
A youth worker is an
adult who ministers to
adolescents

27. counselors
coaches
school
parents
church

28. VI.
We need to get more
efficient

29. Dedication &
Leadership

30. Develop systems of
indoctrination which
are completable

31. Eliminate co-dependency
on the staff

32. VII.
Stone Adam for the
ecclesiastical heretic he
is.
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