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 If you want to contect me, please find me at smiller (at) archbalt (dot) org.

ABOUT
D. SCOTT MILLER
My resume
Catholic Review article Here the short-hand version: (introducing me…?  Read this one, please!)
D. Scott Miller is the director of the Division of Youth and Young Adult Ministry of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.  Previously, he served as the coordinator of adolescent faith formation where his responsibilities include the areas of adolescent catechesis and confirmation.With over thirty years of youth ministry experience on the parish and diocesan levels, Scott previously served on the staff of the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry, Inc as director of membership services.He maintains a daily web-blog at www.catholicYMblog.com,  Scott is the proud father of Nichole, 25, Johnanna, 25, Clark, 23, and Meghan, 18.Here is the full version:D. Scott Miller is the director for the Division of Youth and Young Adult Ministry of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.  Scott re-joined the DYYAM staff in June 2005.  Scott’s initiatives in the office include a revision of the High School Leadership Institute, the Bishops’ Summits on Vocations and the Sacrament of Confirmation, and co-wrote resources such as the Created to Love human sexuality curriculum, Building a Culture of Life with Middle and High School Students., and Technology Procedural Recommendations.

He maintains a daily web-blog at www.catholicYMblog.com.” Scott contributed to Harcourt’s Called to Discipleship web-based high school curriculum and has written for the Life Teen blog.

With over thirty years of youth ministry experience on the parish and diocesan levels, Scott previously served on the staff of the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry, Inc as director of membership services. His responsibilities there included management of all aspects of the National Conference for Catholic Youth Ministry and the New Diocesan Directors’ Institute. Other areas of responsibility included collaboration on adolescent catechesis document and collaboration with America’s Promise, Catholic Relief Services, and True Love Waits.    

In his previous time (1995 to 1999) in Baltimore, he served as coordinator for adolescent sexuality for the DYYAM for the Archdiocese. His work promoted the values of a chaste lifestyle through educational and pastoral resources based on the Holy Father’s Theology of the Body for over fifteen thousand adolescents and fifty-five hundred adults and as he collaborated with other denominations in implementing True Love Waits.

In 2004, Scott was recognized by the Archdiocese of Baltimore with the Division of Youth and Young Adult Ministry’s Medal of Honor. In 2005, he completed his Master of Arts in Religious Education program at Felician College.

Scott has served as a volunteer coordinator for middle school youth ministry at St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Fulton, MD. Scott has his own youth ministry focus group as father to Nichole, 27, Johnanna, 27, Clark, 25, and Meghan, 20.

Before moving east, Scott served for nineteen years in parish, regional, diocesan, and prevention settings, mostly within the state of Iowa.

SPEAKING:

  • Villanova Center for Study of Church Management
  • East Coast Conference for Religious Edication
  • World Youth Day
  • National Catholic Youth Conference
  • National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry (annual membership meeting)
  • National Catholic Education Association
  • National Association for Lay Ministry
  • National Pastoral Life Center
  • Los Angeles Religious Education Conference

Also, he has spoken in Arlington, Albany, Boise, Boston, Butte, Corpus Christi, Denver, Des Moines, Erie, Harrisburg, Honolulu, Little Rock, Philadelphia, Portland, Providence, Roanoke, Salt Lake City, Saint Louis,  Washington, DC, Wheeling, Wilmington, and Wichita.

Platforms:

www.catholicYMblog.com 
YouTube 
MyCatholicVoice 
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Twitter 
Facebook

   ABOUT THE CATHOLIC YOUTH MINISTRY BLOG May the peace of Christ be with you. Here’s the story of how your humble blogger, D. Scott Miller, (What the D. stands for?) got into this whole blogging thing. While through a rough patch in his life in 2002,  he began to journal out various  feelings, observations…  trying to get a hold on what was real and what was important.  It was a bit of a spiritual act on introspection, seeking blessings amid life. For Scott, the journal was never a “handwritten in a spiral book” sort of thing, it was always typed out and filed into a computer folder. Eventually, it became less about his my life and more about his world as a single father and as associate director of the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry.In 2004, he began to put it all up on-line… off into a quiet corner of the NFCYM’s web-site. The first post on Friday, August 20, 2004, read as:Greetings to the World.  My name is D. Scott Miller and I am starting a bulletin board log (BLOG) of information that might be shared with the Catholic Youth Ministry community. . . This is just a starting point.  I’m not sure where it is going to go.  I hope it will be personal.  I hope it will be per-fess-ion-ale (despite occasional grammar errors and mis-spellings) I hope it will be a resource for friends in the field.And so, we begin.

Interestingly enough, the third post announced a news story that eventually led to his present position in the  Archdiocese of Baltimore.

With the move from the NFCYM, the blog moved onto the servers of RaspaNet (of DisciplesNow fame.)  A few years back, at the behest of his father and (then) landlord, Clark Miller learned everything that Scott needed to know about WordPress in a weekend and the blog migrated over to there.

The blog has been referred to as the “411 of Catholic Youth Ministry.”  It has been a vehicle to continue to explore new technologies to communicate within our field.

The goals of the Catholic Youth Ministry Blog remain the same… to serve as a resource for friends in the field.

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9 Comments »

  1. Scott,

    I have been spending some time reading through your blog. It is so wonderful! I really enjoy your writing and being able to read about your work.

    I was wondering if you might be interested in contributing some of your writing to the resource library for the website of the ministry that I am working with. You can see the resource library at http://www.calledtoyouthministry.com/resource and you can contribute by going to the contribute page on the site.
    I think that you have a lot that you could contribute to the resource library and to others who are working to serve the Lord through ministering to youth.

    Thank you so much for your work and for your writing. If you have any questions or concerns please let me know.
    God bless,
    Betsy

    betsy@calledtoyouthministry.com

    Comment by Betsy — Thursday, November 19, 2009 @ 12:32 pm

  2. Wow! This is an inspiration. Great content – simple but effective! I am going to imitate you in my ministry….be flattered ;-) ! Congratulations on your ministry – I enjoyed the April Fool’s Joke although I almost had a heart attack! Hope to see more brilliance soon!

    Comment by Heidi Jury — Wednesday, December 30, 2009 @ 1:13 pm

  3. Hi Scott,
    I came across your blog through google and really enjoy it.
    I am a recent convert from Evangelical/Pentecostal Church and 18 years of church ministry. I currently serve as YD of Saint Mark the Evangelist in Norman, OK.
    Your blog is very informative and funny! Keep up the good work!
    Look forward to learning more about you and from you.

    pax,

    shawn

    Comment by Shawn Reidy — Monday, January 4, 2010 @ 10:57 am

  4. Hello Scott,
    My name is Kandice Weaver with Youth Music Vault. We have recently become a ministry partner with YMToday and found you there. YMV is a new one stop, all digital, membership program designed especially for youth pastors where you can download song based Bible Studies (more than 60 a year), music (over 100 songs a year), video content, chord charts and so much more- all for only $79.99! I’d love for you to personally take a look using this coupon for a FREE 7 day trial. Go to http://www.youthmusicvault.com and enter YMVFREETRIAL upon checking out to download the current issue. If you like what you see, I’d love for you to blog about it and then pass along the savings to your readers as well.
    Thanks so much for your time, and please let me know if you have any questions!
    Kandice Weaver

    Comment by Kandice Weaver — Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 3:28 pm

  5. Scott,
    I just wanted to thank you for your amazing blog! As a person who has served as a parish youth minister/high school campus minister/ youth conference coordinator. I deeply appreciate your insight, support, and especially humor! While there are so many excellent resources out there, it’s nice to do a little “One stop shopping” and get what I need in one location. BTW, we had Mike Patin come up to our annual youth ralley here in NH a couple years ago, he was fantastic. I figure if he links to you you must be pretty fantastic as well!

    Thanks for helping us who are out there in the front lines!

    Joe M
    Manchester, NH

    Comment by Joe Malinowski — Monday, June 28, 2010 @ 8:26 am

  6. Scott,I just wanted to thank you for your amazing blog! As a person who has served as a parish youth minister/high school campus minister/ youth conference coordinator. I deeply appreciate your insight, support, and especially humor! While there are so many excellent resources out there, it’s nice to do a little “One stop shopping” and get what I need in one location. BTW, we had Mike Patin come up to our annual youth ralley here in NH a couple years ago, he was fantastic. I figure if he links to you you must be pretty fantastic as well!
    +1

    Comment by Roshelle — Monday, February 28, 2011 @ 3:15 pm

  7. “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, Even to them that believe on his name.” John 1:12
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    Rev. P. EPHRAIM

    To,

    Dear servants of God

    Greetings to you in the most precious name of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ. Let me introduce myself that my Name is Rev. P. Ephraim, We have established a Christian Organization named “Society of the Prince of Peace” with the Help of some Faithful Christians. We established this society only because that we can proclaim the spirit of God in our Area. Some of our Gospel Teams have been Distributing the Bible free Tracts and Booklets in the particular centers Hospitals, Educational Centers and some Remote villages of our Area. By the Grace of God we are running a Christian Lending Library in my town since 1997. So many people are come and search the scriptures and saved their souls to our Lord’s kingdom through these scriptures. I will be able to succeed this program. So we request you please pray for my spiritual need and send some Bibles, Bible based material to my library purpose.

    We have A Good Team of Youth 15 member, they are all involved Tracts distributions, street preaching and they are visit to some remote villages and proclaim the God’s words and distribute the free tracts and new testaments. So we need some more Gospel tracts and Library material to my area people spiritual help. Kindly consider my request and send the above material to me. We win some souls here through these materials. God bless you always. I am waiting for your kind reply.

    Pls Prayer for our Need ‘s : – OUR TEAMS ARE VISIT TO SOME REMOTE VILLAGES , AND SPREED THE WORD OF GOD AND DISTRIBUTE THESE TRACTS FREELY. OUR TEAMS VISIT TO HOSPITAL EDUCATIONAL CENTERS WEEKLY ONCE I HAVE NEED OF MORE THEN TRACTS & BIBLE’S . . .

    Therefore Brother as you too know pretty well as all these services are Herculean tasks and as such, we are humbly and earnestly requesting and imploring that please kindly pray for the total augmentation of our respective ministry here in India . With pleasure, your physical presence here with us is highly solicited according to your tentative schedule and as per God’s Will. We will pray for your visit to India and its grand success. We do hope you may react peacefully and consider our this specific request with kind heart and also with prayerful outlook.

    It is our humble request please kindly visit once our ministry website with pleasure.

    See Our Web Site : – http://www.soulsaveministriesindia.blogspot.com

    Please pray for us as we pray for you. We shall await for your further the most valuable and prayerful response at an earliest with good anticipation and fervent hope.

    We pray for you and your Family and also your ministry in my Regular prayers.

    I Have need Computers in my ministries work

    WE NEED YOU! Please Help Us. We especially need monthly donors

    May God Bless U

    Yours in His service forever

    Rev . P. Ephraim

    Comment by Rev . P. Ephraim — Wednesday, March 2, 2011 @ 4:45 am

  8. Scott, I love your Blog. I am 27 Years old practicing Catholic with my Debut Album coming out for Catholic Youth. If you would look into my music or website it may be of interest to your ministry. Its not what you may think so please just give it 1 listen. It has been featured on Catholic Online. Thank you and God Bless You. Joepots.com

    Comment by Joe — Saturday, January 28, 2012 @ 8:44 pm

  9. Dear Scott,

    I am so blessed to read your blog this Sunday afternoon. I have loved what you do, especially for the youth. I am myself, a young, upcoming catholic youth minister in Uganda.

    I created my blog last week, I hope you follow it. I promise to keep in touch with you, as there is much I can learn from you…all for the greater Glory of God.

    http://ugandayouthministryassociation.wordpress.com/

    Comment by Steven Godwin Beingana — Sunday, January 29, 2012 @ 6:48 am

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