At GYMN we know that a long-term partnership strategy
is the best approach to have a deep and widening impact.
We desire to partner with groups of youth leaders in a denominaton or national church alliance that is looking to develop an entire group of youth leaders and to create a team of trainers within their existing structure so that the multiplication of youth leadership can occur with local trainers and input.
We develop youth leaders through seminars so that they will be able to develop, train and mobilize other youth and youth ministers/pastors.
We believe that this works best in a process that utilizes the following characteristics:
1. Biblical ministry principles that are transferable across all cultures and all time.
2. Practical examples are necessary for the particpants to discover ways to implement the principles. These examples are provided from the trainers, but also through group interactions.
3. Time is also set aside for the seminar participants to put their ideas and plans into writing. This enables the youth leader and the youth ministry team, along with an accompanying pastor, to have a strategic plan for one entire year of ministry.
4. Follow up and encouragement is provided through our no cost Youth Connections training articles that are mailed to your church 6 times per year.
5. In addition, we encourage those involved in the training to establish a youth leaders network with those who attended, for the purposes of sharing ideas, struggles, concerns and victories together in ministry.
6. We provide additional advanced training, our Level 2, that assists you as a leaders to evaluate and further develop not only your ministry but your internal spiritual life and development.
7. In addition, we offer to the seminar participants additional resources that we have created for youth ministry. In order to continue our expansion and to cover our printing costs these items are offered at a reasonable cost. To see the examples of our Basic Training Discipleship book or the Connection Points youth leader guidebook click on the links.
Below is an overview of the seminar topics by level of training.
For more details on the the ministry and the hosting process, see the
Hosting Information packet page:
Level 1:
Session 1- Need for Ministry to Teens & Youth
Session 2- Great Commission Teen/Youth Ministry
Session 3- Planning
Session 4- Meeting Teens and Youth Where They Are
Session 5- Youth Evangelism
Session 6- Fellowship
Session 7- Growth
Session 8- Ministry & Leadership
Session 9- Multiplication
Session 10- Role of Family
Session 11- Leadership Team Development
Session 12- Prioritizing and Evaluation
Session 13- Working Together in His Mission
Level 2:
Session 1- Review
Session 2- Creating a Purposeful Youth Ministry
Session 3- Evaluating our Ministries
Session 4- Prioritizing and Planning
Session 5- Bible Study Methods: Overview and Laboratory
Session 6- Teaching Process: Communicating God’s Truth from the Inside Out
Session 7- The Internal Life of the Christian Leader
Session 8- Creating and Building a Ministry Team
Session 9- Understanding Teenagers, Youth & Young Adults
Session 10- Designing Events for Teenagers/ Youth/ Young Adults
Leadership Summit
By invitation only. This is a shorter seminar that is designed to certify those who have been through Level 1 and 2 and who have been role model youth leaders that have the gift of teaching. The purpose of the Leadership Summit is to allow these leaders to train other youth leaders in future seminars.
