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Young Life was founded by Jim Rayburn in 1941. The Young Life Parachurch Model proved to be effective at reaching young people, and by the early 1950', Parachurch Youth Ministries with full-time staff flourished. Billy Graham was the first full-time parachurch worker for Youth for Christ (YfC) in the USA. This movement spread quickly around the ...
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 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.
Christian Service Brigade was established in 1937 by Joe Coughlin in Glen Ellyn, Illinois with a Methodist Sunday School sixth-grade boys' class in conjunction with Wheaton College's Christian Service Council. [15] [16] In 1939, an affiliated girls group was founded, Girls' Guild.
This category is designed as a finding aid to individual Christian youth groups and organizations, usually at the demoninational level, the national level, or significant local groups. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
“Having church on Sunday brings a certain spirit into this place,” Jones said at a storage space above the bar surrounded by boxes of beer. “People say, ‘Oh, it’s bar.' Well, I beg to ...
If you ever attended Sunday service at the Peoples Baptist Church of Boston at any time over the last 100 years, you're likely to have bumped into or have met Mrs. Beatrice Busby. She's been a ...
By the end of the 19th century, Christian Endeavor was in the headlines of many major American newspapers. By 1906, 67,000 youth-led Christian Endeavor societies had been organized worldwide, with over four million members. Christian Endeavor took up many causes and was influential in supporting the temperance movement in the 1920s.