Purpose driven youth ministry

March 19th, 2006 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0) |

During my internship last summer at Valley Church, I was introduced to a specific method of youth ministry known as Purpose Driven Youth Ministry (PDYM). The pastor of student ministries at Valley, Brandon Barker, has been using the PDYM method for several years and was recently interviewed for an article at Pastors.com.

Even in the short amount of time I was there (ca. 3 months), it was easy to see the effectiveness of PDYM, the way that students really felt committed to the ministry and to the Kingdom. I’ve always felt iffy about the Purpose Driven Life (a quick visit to the website will give you nice warm fuzzy), but PDYM is different; it’s tangible. I’m looking forward to being a part of Valley’s student ministry again this summer.

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I will have to check this out….I trust your approval of it as I too am not so sure about the purpose driven life.

thank you sir

Posted by lindsey on March 20, 2006

your “internship” link makes me happy because it talks about me feeding you warm milk. now those were some good times.

Posted by Molly on March 21, 2006

and im excited to intern for rosebud again…

we’re gonna have to hang out lots this summer…for realz

Posted by TJ Lyttle on March 30, 2006

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