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Course
Cultivating a Discipleship Community
~19.5 Hours
In this course, Cultivating a Discipleship Community, you’ll learn practical and impactful strategies for partnering with parents, families, and your church to support and disciple the teenagers in your ministry.
3 instructors
About This Course
As a youth leader, you’re likely energized by teaching, leading, and discipling the teenagers in your care. However, over time you’ll discover that this also includes both serving and working with their families and your broader church community. You may feel awkward or anxious as you try to support families and the challenges they’re going through, but you’re not alone. In this course, Cultivating a Discipleship Community, you’ll learn practical ways to come alongside parents and families as partners in discipling their teens. Experts from Fuller Youth Institute, Dr. Kara Powell and Dr. Andy Jung, will share their research and experience as they guide you through the Growing With parenting approach and the Growing Young core commitments. These insights will help you cultivate the communities teenagers need in order to thrive as whole people in this season of their lives and beyond.
Learning Outcomes
- Describe the Growing With parenting approach and how youth ministry can support and partner with parents
- Define the six core commitments of the Growing Young research and determine next steps to help your congregation continue its Growing Young journey
Created in partnership with the Fuller Youth Institute and FULLER Equip.
- Administration
- Professional Training
- Leadership
- Church & Ministry
Introduction
1. Getting Started
Cultivating “Growing With” Parenting
2. Growing-Up Teenagers Need “Growing With” Parents
3. Withing: Reframing Parents’ Relationships with Their Kids
4. Adulting: Parents’ Roles in Helping Their Kids Live with Purpose
5. Faithing: Parents’ Discipleship Conversations with Their Kids
Cultivating a Discipleship Community
6. Growing Young
7. Developing a Culture of Keychain Leadership
8. Creating a Warm Community
9. Leading Your Congregation Well
Conclusion
10. Moving Forward
Your Instructor
Kara Powell
Chief of Leadership Formation, Executive Director of FYI, Author
Kara Powell, PhD, is the chief of Leadership Formation and executive director of the Fuller Youth Institute at Fuller Theological Seminary. Named by Christianity Today as one of “50 Women to Watch,” Kara serves as a youth and family strategist for Orange and speaks regularly at parenting and leadership conferences. Kara has authored or coauthored numerous books.
Andy Jung
Senior Director for FYI, Pastor, Youth Minister
Andy Jung, DMin, is the senior director of Church Engagement and Business Administration at the Fuller Youth Institute (FYI). He focuses on developing relationships with church, denominational, and network leaders, finding ways for FYI's research, resources, and training to support their ministry. He has served as a youth minister for 20+ years and a senior pastor for five years. In addition to his work at FYI, he is a current ministry practitioner as he serves as the minister in residence for young adults at Trinity Baptist Church in Raleigh, NC. Andy lives with his wife Amy in Raleigh and is passionate about helping churches better love and care for young people so that teenagers and young adults can thrive in their faith.
FYI
Center at Fuller Theological Seminary
The Fuller Youth Institute (FYI) turns research into practical resources to help make the church the best place for young people to grow. An innovative branch of Fuller Theological Seminary, FYI research has pioneered a new era of youth ministry practice and intergenerational discipleship, partnering with faculty from across various disciplines to create tools that change the way the world sees young people.
