SOTE 60th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Youth and Youth Culture
Pastors’ Seminar and Fellowship
August 20, 2018 | 9:15am - 10:45pm
A framework for understanding Youth Ministry
Associate Professor of Youth Ministry
Asbury University
Director, Youth Becoming Leaders: High School Christian Leadership and Global Transformation Institute
Brian Hull is the Associate Professor of Youth Ministry at Asbury University. He has his Ph.D. in Intercultural Studies from Asbury Theological Seminary and his M.A. in Christian Education with a Youth Ministry Diploma from Nazarene Theological Seminary. Brian has served in youth ministry for more than 20 years, including work at the local church and denominational levels. Brian continues to present and write about the church, youth culture, youth ministry, youth as leaders and the Christian Endeavor Society. He is married to Carol and they live in Wilmore, Kentucky with their four children.
Youth ministry by nature is multi-disciplinary. Youth leaders work with ever-changing youth, parents, senior pastors, volunteers, church leaders, budgets, systems, calendars, task lists, theology, Scripture, family systems, and the list goes on.?
In that kind of multi-faceted, rapidly-changing context an approach to youth ministry that integrates spiritual formation, missiology, practical theology, and systems thinking is required.
Join us as we discuss this framework and how you might be able to use it in your own context.
August 20, 2018 | 11:00am - 12:00pm
Youth Ministry - A Singaporean Perspective
Assistant Head, Inter-Generational Ministry
Pastor-in-Charge, Youth and Children’s Ministries
Grace Assembly of God
Joey is the Next-Gen pastor in Grace Assembly of God and oversees 500 youths across two church campuses. Joey is also overseeing the children’s ministry, and in the process of taking over the leadership of?the young adults ministry. He is a licensed minister with the Assemblies of God Council and also serves as its Next Generation Commission coordinator. Having been in full-time ministry since 2009, Joey?considers it an immense privilege to lead the ministry that God used to changed his life. He is married to Huiyi, and has two young children, Eden and Judah.
Youth ministry in Singapore is unique because of how we employ Western methods in an Asian context. What works for one church may not work in another so it is wiser to learn principles in approaching youth ministry instead of how to do it.
In this sharing, Joey will attempt to cover a range of topics that includes understanding the uniqueness and demands of your calling, experiencing the joys and perils of being a homegrown minister, working with/under/above different pastors, transitioning into and out of youth ministry, raising and releasing leaders in the Singapore educational ecosystem, responding to fast/ever-changing trends, prioritising your family and setting them up to win, role-modeling a balanced and missional life for your youths, and most importantly, maintaining your spiritual fervour and thriving in your walk with God.
