Why YOUTH MINISTRY? A Beacon of Joy in the Midst of Suffering
June 4 - 8, 2018
This weeklong course is designed for pastors, seminarians,
lay leaders, and YOUTH ministers. Each night from
6:00 to 9pm,
we will gather for evening fellowship dinners, lectures, and workshop breakouts to name
and discuss some of the adversities our YOUTH face every
day. Throughout the week, we will learn with and from one another some
concrete ways to combat these adversities to better
nurture the foundations of joyful, flourishing lives. Yale Divinity School’s standard charge for a SUMMER Study course is $400. The Youth Ministry Institute
[https://youthministryinstitute.yale.edu/]is providing each registrant for this program a $350
scholarship, reducing the tuition for each registrant to $50 for the entire weeklong program.
This program is free for Yale students - please select "Yale Student"
ticket options when checking out and be prepared to show your ID at
check-in.
This event has rolling registration that continues during the week of
the event. Learn more about the Adolescent Faith and Flourishing
Program
[http://faith.yale.edu/adolescent-faith-flourishing/adolescent-faith-flourishing] at
the Yale Youth Ministry Institute.
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COURSE DETAILS
EACH EVENING: 6:00PM - 9:00PM
MONDAY, JUNE 4TH – ANXIETY
Dr. Allan Hugh Cole, Jr. and Rev. Dr. Philip Browning Helsel will
deliver a lecture entitled, “Mentoring Youth for Joy in Anxious
Times.” The lecture focuses on the pervasiveness of anxiety in the
lives of adolescents, reasons for this trend, and ways for support-
ing adolescents, appealing to the practice of mentoring as a conduit
for resilience and joy. Dr. Cole is Senior Associate Dean for Academic
Affairs, Director of Undergraduate Programs, and Professor in the
School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin. Previously
he served for eleven years on the faculty of Austin Presbyterian
Theological Seminary in Austin, TX, the last four as Academic Dean.
Rev. Dr. Philip Browning Helsel, is Assistant Professor of Pastoral
Care and Counseling at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
TUESDAY, JUNE 5TH – POVERTY
Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Conde-Frazier and Rev. Ruben Ortiz will deliver a
lecture entitled, “Thriving Grace: Hope’s Agenda Setting.” While
practical theology has defined thriving in the language of scholars,
what does thriving mean for young people and youth pastors living in
urban poverty as the reality of their lives? Beginning with the
description of the context of urban poverty, its problems and effects
on youth, we will bring into conversation the voices and disciplines
of youth, ministers, professors, theorists of urban studies and
theologians. Rev. Dr.Conde-Frazier is Academic Dean and Vice President
of Education at Esperanza College of Eastern University. Rev. Ortiz
has served in urban ministry for 30 years and is Director of National
Programs at Esperanza.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6TH – IDOLATRY
Dr. James K. A. Smith and Dr. Kyle David Bennett will deliver a
lecture entitled, “Looking for Joy in All the Wrong Places: An
Augustinian Guide to our Anxieties.” This lecture will consider how
the duplex of anxiety and anger—fostered and fomented by the rituals
of distraction—are both generators and fruit of idolatries. But we
will also consider what it might look like to overcome these
inhibitors, to find rest and arrive home to joy. Dr. Smith is
professor of philosophy at Calvin College, where he holds the Gary and
Henrietta Byker Chair in Applied Reformed Theology and Worldview. Dr.
Bennett is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of the
Spirituality and Leadership Institute at Caldwell University.
THURSDAY, JUNE 7TH – BELONGING + CHRISTIAN FREEDOM (NEW!)
Dr. Michal Beth Dinkler and the Rev. Skip Masback will deliver a
lecture entitled, "Paul's Not-so-Secret Secret: Belonging and
Christian Freedom in the Midst of Affliction." Maya Angelou said once
in an interview, "You are only free when you realize you belong no
place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high.
The reward is great." Paul traced the Christian path to this freedom
with a secret he blabbed from one end of the ancient world to the
other. As he framed his secret in his letter to the Philippians: "I
have learned the secret of being well-fed and of going hungry, of
having plenty and of being in need. I can do all things through him
who strengthens me." (4:12-13). This lecture will explore how our
YOUTH MIGHT CLAIM THIS FREEDOM PAUL CALLS THEM TO AND OFFER YOUTH
WORKERS PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR HELPING INDIVIDUALS AND YOUTH OPEN
THEIR LIVES TO "him who strengthens" us. Dr. Dinkler is assistant
professor of New Testament at YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL. She is the author
of over 30 published works, _Luke_ (2013) and _Reflexivity and
Emotion in Narratological Perspective: Reading Joy in the Lukan
Narrative_ (2017). Rev. Masback was a YOUTH MINISTER FOR OVER 20 YEARS
BEFORE FOUNDING AND DIRECTING THE YALE YOUTH MINISTRY INSTITUTE.
FRIDAY, JUNE 8TH – SUBSTANCE ABUSE
Dr. Joyce Mercer and Rev. Charles Edward Atkins, Jr. will deliver a
lecture entitled, “Fake Joy: Substance Abuse and Young People’s
Thirst for Wholeness.” In this lecture, we look at substance abuse
as offering false joy to youth. We will share a strengths-based model
for working with incarcerated youth that can be engaged with young
people in other settings, that supports their genuine quest for joy
against the seductive false joy of substance abuse. Dr. Mercer is a
scholar-researcher, teacher, writer, retreat leader, and professor of
Pastoral Care and Practical Theology at Yale Divinity School. Charles
Edward Atkins, Jr.’s work focuses on religious practice in
incarcerated communities. Charles is an ordained minister who
currently works as a full-time Chaplain with the N.J. Department of
Corrections at the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility.
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