Video Transcript: Transformational Youth Ministry

We have been exploring transformational youth ministry. The mission is to  unleash the leadership potential of youth residing in higher risk communities.  The vision is transformation in the heart of at risk communities where youth  grow in faith and confidence to serve others, starting with the children of their  neighborhood, and reaching as far as God's purpose for their lives takes them.  And then the means is transformational discipleship, an approach to youth  ministry centered on maximizing the adolescent leadership experience in ways  that mold youth for future service and motivate the future leaders or children that they influence defining concepts the felt need concept, hearing the need, the felt need of young people, and then bringing Jesus to the point of that need,  growing up urban, the code of the street, understanding the influence that is  impacting young people, that is the dominant thinking that helps them survive.  Assumptions. Assumptions are anything you believe to be true without proof.  Assumptions have a way of defining what we do and why we do that, what the  expectations are of people. These assumptions may or may not be true, but  these assumptions can definitely if they're the wrong assumptions, they can  stifle youth development. And then the medium is the message that our work.  We don't just walk in and talk and our words just don't know it's what we do, it's  what is, what young people see, it's what they experience. The medium is the  message rooted in mission that youth development, urban youth ministry, is is  not just a small thing. It impacts the next generation of young people, next  generation of leaders, and that it is Kingdom oriented, that it is a part of God's  Kingdom agenda, to bring you in contact with youth in a way that transforms  their lives. Stories matter. God works through time. He has worked in your life  and he's worked in the lives of young people, and even if they are tragic, God is  still at work. He is still there. And to recognize God in the story is to is to help  you understand who God is and what his great purpose is. For you, stories do  matter, transformation, the renewing of the mind, the renewing of the mind, and  then discipleship. It's a learning and growing relationship, always and then the  discipleship rich environment, we can create environments that are  characterized by these honest answers to honest questions. Kids may come into your program and they would not talk about these things outside, but when they  come into your group, they will they will talk, they will listen. They want to learn.  They know they are being heard, and it's a place where they truly can discover  who they are and who God is and how much God loves them. So that is  transformational discipleship. But now the next series of talks are going to be  about the transformational leader. Any organization or organizational unit is a  direct reflection of the leadership it is given for good or for bad. I don't know  what you think about leadership. Leadership is not always a welcomed word.  There are things associated with it, like being being dominant or being  controlling or are not being equal. These. Kinds of thoughts can diminish  leadership, but the reality is, leadership is important, and so building a ministry 

that transforms requires transformational leadership, and that's we're going to  be That's what we'll we will be covering in the next series of talks.