Rebuilding Youth Ministry: Ten Practical Strategies for Catholic Parishes
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Wesley coaches fellow Catholic ministry leaders on how to overcome common hurdles of ministering to young people. Wesley shares how he faced feelings of complacency, underestimated youth, and entertained rather than ministered in his own parish. Wesley built a distinctive program based on small group faith formation and sustained it with the assistance of more than sixty volunteer adult mentors.
Wesley lays out ten strategies that helped grow participation in his high school program from nine teens to ninety and the middle school program from forty teens to eighty-five, including:
- Making your youth program about more than pizza;
- Pursuing authentic relationships between small groups and mentors;
- Shaping a dynamic youth ministry team; and
- Creating a space that’s welcoming to teens.
Christopher Wesley
Christopher Wesley is a youth ministry coach and consultant with Marathon Youth Ministry (christopherwesley.org). He is the director of youth and young adult ministry at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Cockeysville, Maryland, and the former director of student ministry at Church of the Nativity in Timonium, Maryland. He also serves as the president of the unCUFFed Ministries Board of Directors in Baltimore, Maryland. The author of Rebuilding Youth Ministry and Rebuilding Confirmation, Wesley writes content for downloadyouthministry.com. He and his wife, Katherine, have two sons and live in Pikesville, Maryland
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