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FUGE Camps is a series of Christian summer camps for children, youth, and young adults centered on Bible study, worship, mission work, and recreational activities organized by LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention. FUGE Camps offers four different styles of camp, where churches can choose to attend either Centrifuge ...
Growing Up in America: A Sociology of Youth Ministry. Youth Specialties. 1989. ISBN 9780310524700. Things We Wish We Had Said: Reflections of a Father and His Grown Son. Word Publishing. 1989. ISBN 9780849906855. (co-written with Bart Campolo) Wake Up America! Answering God's Radical Call While Living in the Real World. HarperCollins Canada. 1991.
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.
Other youth groups are religious youth ministries such as the evangelical Christian Awana, Seventh-day Adventist Pathfinders, and Assemblies of God Royal Rangers. Smaller Scout-like groups include the Christian Trail Life USA for boys, American Heritage Girls for girls, the non-denominational co-ed Navigators USA and Baden-Powell Service ...
Youth With A Mission was conceived by Loren Cunningham in 1956. As a 20-year-old student in an Assemblies of God College, he was traveling in the Bahamas when he had a vision of a movement that would send young people out into various nations to share the message of Jesus, and which would involve Christians of all Christian denominations.
In addition to his work with IBLP and his business, he is also the pastor at Bible Baptist Church in East Tennessee. David York, Board Member. David York has been on the Board of Directors for many years and attended his first IBLP event in 1969 in Chicago and helped launch the Advanced Training Unit along with other members of the organization.
In 1941, the children's program at the North Side Gospel Center in Chicago laid the foundation for the principles of Awana. [1] Lance Latham, North Side's senior pastor, collaborated with the church's youth director, Art Rorheim, to develop weekly clubs that they believed would appeal to all children.
Regional Summer Youth Camps began in the denomination in 1947 in Georgia. They were organized with the acronym PBYF which stands for Primitive Baptist Youth Fellowship. Camps are owned by the denominational churches in four states; Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas. A youth camp is held the first week in June for the Central States each year.