Rooted Conference

In this workshop from Rooted 2023, 29-year veteran youth leader Danny Kwon shares both the why and the how of involving student leaders in youth ministries. Emphasizing the Rooted pillar of relational discipleship, Kwon outlines a process for developing a student leader team in your ministry. Kwon now serves as the Senior Director of Youth Ministry Content and Cross-Cultural Connections at Rooted.

"Student leadership is helping students to understand the gospel by serving alongside other student leaders and helping them develop maturity."

Resources:

• Student Leadership Training Manual for Youth Workers by Dennis "Tiger" McLuen
• Help! I'm a Student Leader: Practical Ideas and Guidance on Leadership by Doug Fields
• A Youth Worker's Field Guide to Parents: Understanding Parents of Teenagers by Danny Kwon
• Mission Tripping: A Comprehensive Guide to Youth Ministry Missions by Danny Kwon

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In this workshop from Rooted 2023, longtime youth and family pastor and Rooted founder, Cameron Cole, begins by debunking some myths about what family ministry means. He then moves into four key components of effective ministries to families in the church, with a special emphasis on how to work well with parents. 

Resources:

• Are My Kids on Track?: The 12 Emotional, Social, and Spiritual Milestones Your Child Needs to Reach by Sissy Goff
• Rooted Reservoir Family Discipleship
• CPYU
• Axis Ministry
• Give Them Grace Elyse Fitzpatrick
• Age of Opportunity by Paul David Tripp
• Join us at Rooted 2024 in Dallas, October 24-26!

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In this talk from the 2023 Rooted Conference in Franklin, TN, longtime youth leader Mike McGarry encourages youth ministers to think deliberately about what a Christian is, and how to make disciples. Mike advocates for the longstanding church practice of a three- pronged approach to catechetical discipleship incorporating the Apostles' Creed, the Ten Commandments, and the Lord's Prayer. Mike is the founder and director of Youth Pastor Theologian.

"[Are we] enfolding students into the life of the church, not just deploying them into youth group.  Are we helping students to really embrace the church so that when they graduate, the roots of their faith are not planted in the youth ministry...?"

Resources:

• See here for more resources from YPT.
• Join us in Dallas, Texas this October 24-26, for a Walk Through the Book of Daniel.
• Purchase Anxiety: Finding the Better Story by Liz Edrington today.

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In this workshop from the Rooted conference in 2023, Gospel-Centered Family founder and TGC editor Jared Kennedy explores God's good design for men and women. He describes how we can teach our children about gender so that they will understand and appreciate the bodies that God gave them.

"What we need to teach our students, and our kids (as parents), is that our bodies are gifts that help us to fulfill his creation mandate and his great commission."

Referenced:

• Genesis 1:26-28; 2:15-25
• Purchase Anxiety: Finding the Better Story by Liz Edrington today.

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In this workshop from the 2023 Rooted conference in Franklin, TN, Syler Thomas shares nine principles that he uses to prepare the parents of the youth in his church for the changes that come with middle and high school. Considering Syler's experience as a youth pastor for over 25 years and raising his own four children to adulthood, you won't want to miss his wit and wisdom!

"The biggest obstacle to youth group involvement in high school is a lack of relationships."

Resources:

• Common Sense Media
• Sticky Faith: Everyday Ideas to Build Lasting Faith In Your Kids by Kara Powell and Chap Clark

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In this workshop from the 2023 Rooted Conference, CJ Moore gives a theological framework for short-term missions, an overview of the strengths and weaknesses of short-terms missions, and highly practical considerations for planning a trip. 

C.J. Moore serves as an Associate Pastor at Grace Bible Church in Oxford, MS and as an Adjunct Professor of Missions at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has more than a decade of ministry-related experience, including several years in campus- and church-based student ministry, as well as time as a mid-term missionary in East Asia and then as a stateside mobilizer for the International Mission Board.

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In this workshop from Rooted 2023, Clark Fobes provides a foundation for teaching the Sermon on the Mount. After preaching through this text in his church, Fobes wrote Rooted's Sermon on the Mount curriculum. This workshop is a great place for anyone who plans to study this passage with their students or children.

"That's essentially how I try to approach the sermon on the Mount, by asking the question: What is Jesus revealing here, both about God's Kingdom and his covenant for his people?"

Resources:

Join us for Rooted 2024 in Dallas Texas, October 24-26!

See our Sermon on the Mount Resources.

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In this talk from Rooted 2023, Chattanooga family pastor Andy Cornett talks about how youth pastors can partner with parents and draw people of multiple generations to work with the teenagers in the church. These volunteers are crucial for the development of a fruitful youth community, where the gospel forms faith in young people.

Andy Cornett is Associate Pastor of Families at Signal Mountain Presbyterian Church at Chattanooga, TN and father of three children.

"Every kid is an at-risk kid. Every kid is one personal or parental decision away from being at-risk and having the whole course of their life upended.... In a society where kids or teens are being abandoned left and right by people, the church has to be the one place where there should be quality adult leaders who stand in the gap without agenda, without pretense, and open their lives to children and students."

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In this workshop from Rooted 2023 in Franklin, TN, TGC journalist Sarah Zylstra shares wisdom about video games gathered from Scripture, her research, and her experience as a mother of teenage boys. This thought-provoking workshop will help parents think about their sons' gaming from a biblical perspective. 

Resources:

• How to Help Your Child Faithfully Navigate Video Games (Rooted 2023 Workshop Preview) by Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra
• Gaming Alone: Helping the Generation of Young Men Captivated and Isolated by Video Games by Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra, TGC
• Anxiety: Finding the Better Story by Liz Edrington

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In this highly practical, helpful workshop from Rooted 2023 in Franklin, TN, RUF pastor and Indelible Grace leader Kevin Twit shares from his experience a veteran college minister and parent of three adult kids. Helping teenagers to rely on adults before they go to college, teaching them the principles of common grace and general revelation.

"If you think you understand youth from two years ago, you don't understand youth."

Resources: 

Hurt 2.0: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers by Chap Clark

Surviving Religion 101by Michael Kruger

You Are Not Your Own Alan Noble

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Join us for Rooted 2024 in Dallas, October 24-26.