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Youth Workers' Gathering 2012
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| Our Preacher is Bishop Robert E Hayes, episcopal leader for the Oklahoma Area of The United Methodist Church. As bishop, he presides over 530 churches in the Oklahoma Conference and almost 90 churches of the Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference (OIMC).
Bishop Hayes says he felt called to preach at an early age. "When I was about 4 years old, I would pull up a chair to my father's pulpit after church on Sundays and bang my hands on the pulpit, imitating my father. By the time I was 8, I was conducting elaborate funerals for deceased cats, birds, and other pets of friends. I preached my first sermon when I was 14. I've always felt like God wanted me to be a minister. It's part of my life," he said.
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| Mark Devries, keynote speaker and breakout session leader, is the founder of Youth Ministry Architects (2002) and Children’s Ministry Architects (2010), a hands-on coaching service for churches whose ministries are in transition or who hope to move any of their ministries strategically forward. Mark has trained youth workers across the United States and Canada, as well as in Russia, Uganda, South Africa, Ecuador, Trinidad, Nicaragua, and Northern Ireland, working with a wide variety of denominations. He has taught courses or been a guest lecturer at a number of colleges and seminaries. He is the author of a number of books, including Sustainable Youth Ministry (IVP),Family-Based Youth Ministry (IVP, Revised and Expanded, 2004) and 2011 releases, Mark is a frequent seminar speaker, training youth leaders at both the Youth Specialties’ National Youth Workers Convention and the Simply Youth Ministry Youth Ministry Conference.
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| The Calling Congregations staff of the Fund for Theological
Education are among presenters for this event.They will lead us in the VocationCARE approach as part of a sustainable youth ministry as well as lead us in a design process. Click here for more about VocationCARE and the Fund for Theological Education.
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HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Now accepting applications for youTheology Journey, one-year program with high school students. Click here to learn more.
| From 9.00 am to 2.00 pm
Saint Paul School of Theology, Kansas City, MO
Saturday, July 7, 2012
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EXPLORE LEADERSHIP
Check out Explore Leadership Camp from
June 22nd to 24th, 2012 at Central Methodist
University in Fayette, MO. It will be great.
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with Middle and High School Students
Saturday, September 15, 2012.
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Youth Workers' Gathering 2012 in Oklahoma City
March 30 - 31, 2012
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This was a time for me to grow in my faith and learn about the Wesleyan theology on a factualbasis.  |
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- Adam Thomas, Kearney MO
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