The Church's Ministry
with Youth
May 29 - June 2 (Tues.-Sat.), 2007
CrossRoads UMC in Phoenix, Arizona.
9 a.m. - 5 p.m. | 2 Graduate/ACOS Units
CEU Credit Available

Dr. David F. White
Associate Professor of Christian Education at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary (Austin, TX)

This week-long class will explore dominant cultural understandings and interactions of youth, as well as how minority cultures understand and interact with young people. Participants will consider the ways youth are marginalized, exploited and domesticated by social roles allowed them in American culture, including how the church has participated in these ways of relating with youth. Ultimately, the course asks how youth ministry can engage youth and congregations in resisting this domestication and participate with God in empowering youth as agents of the Reign of God. View the course syllabus.

Instructor
David White holds the Ph.D. in religious education from Claremont School of Theology, where he served as executive director of the Youth Descipleship Project. His publications include Practicing Discernment with Youth (Pilgrim Press, 2005) and Awakening Youth Discipleship in a Consumer Culture (forthcoming, with Brian Mahan and Michael Warren).

Registration
If you want to take the course for graduate credit and are not a current CST student, you must complete a simple non-degree application in advance. Contact the Arizona coordinator Debby Stinton by email or call (602) 266-6956 ext. 266 for more information.