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Youth ministry, also commonly referred to as youth group, is an age-specific religious ministry of faith groups or other religious organizations, usually from ages 12 to 30, whose mission is to involve and engage with young people who attend their places of worship, or who live in their community.
Youth organizations in the United States are of many different types. The largest is the government run 4-H program, followed by the federally chartered but private Scouting movement groups: the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) and the Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA).
Free Youth Movement (FYM) (Kurdish جوڵانەوەى گەنجانى ئازاد) is a youth group that began in the Winters of 2011 in Iraqi Kurdistan by a group of journalists and students to support freedom in the Middle East and the whole world.
The International Order of the Rainbow for Girls (IORG) is a Masonic youth service organization that teaches leadership training through community service. Young women learn about the value of charity and service through their work and involvement with their annual local and Grand (state or country) service projects.
The ministry is first come, first served; while thousands are given free treatment, thousands more are turned away, sometimes coming from many states away. [79] In 1973, Pastor David E. Ross founded YWAM Korea, and launched campus ministries where Bible meditation sessions, prayer meetings and worship services are held on campuses in that ...
The grey youth group tries to form a symbiosis between youth group ideas and the Grey Corps. Other groups, like the Free Youth Group, emphasize left-wing political action, which found expression, among other things, in the occupation of an oil platform in the Wadden Sea.
In 1971, Hybels—then serving as youth pastor at South Park Church in Park Ridge, Illinois—started a youth group with friend Dave Holmbo called 'Son City'. [4] [5] Modern music, dramatic skits and multimedia were combined with Bible studies in relevant language, and the group grew from 25 to 1,200 in just three years.
EFY was created by Ronald C. Hills in 1976 when 172 youth and 15 counselors met for the first session of the summer program. Then-Commissioner of Church Education Jeffrey R. Holland, now of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, was one of the banquet speakers at the founding session. The next year, attendance rose to 863 youth.