Youth Ministry Stereotype



Pretty funny. H/T Dave Miers on this one.

I liked the 'always someone breakng their arm, did you really tell them to pull the fire alarm?' and the bit about the messy car and the house smelling like feet. Lol.

Prolly some overlap between youth workers and uni evangelists so I need to listen up a little, I guess. I am working pretty hard to brand and plan the uni mission in a deliberately 'we're not a youth group' way. But still.

4 comments:

dave miers said...

I am working pretty hard to brand and plan the uni mission in a deliberately 'we're not a youth group' way.

good call.
we once had an 18+ group at church called "I wish I was in youth group"
aside from the stupid name, it was a silly concept. the last thing i wanted was to be in youth group!! i was in my early 20s and quite happy to be in my early 20s and not still 15!

thanks for link. glad you enjoyed it! make sure you watch the hotel hotel one i linked to too.

mgpcpastor said...

Thanks for this guys.
I know some others who'll get a kick out it.
I always maintained that one of the things that guys learned in Theological College was that they were not called to youth ministry.
Invariably, when they were on field assignment, the minister of the parish would assign them to the youth group, because the minister of the parish had learned he was not called to youth ministry when the same thing happened to them when he was at theological college.
BTW, there's more content here about ministering to youth than there was in our training course back then.
I hear things are better now.
Gary.

Moses said...

"Fight the Youth Ministry stereotype".

So True!

Mikey Lynch said...

Yeah watched the Hotel Hotel one. Very fun.

I remember years ago Peter Jensen did Colin B's 'Is 53' rap at some event. Maybe we should encourage him to do Hotel Hotel at his next public engagement?