Tom Peters has got this great Little Big Things series on YouTube that is worth monitoring. This series and his book are about suggesting that it is not the big showy things that make for great leadership but it is the little big things that are done and done well that make the difference.

In this video, he is talking the language that we often toss around in Catholic Youth Ministry… Servant Leadership. 

He suggests that the truest servant leader is one who lays down his own life to remove hurdles for another… Hmmm, that sounds remarkably familiar!

What have you done in the past 24 hours to make the ability to do ministry easier for another person?

Yesterday, Georgina Vaca and I had the privilege to spent an afternoon with the Seminarians of the ArchBalt offering a briefing on Youth and Young Adult Ministry.

It was an intriguing conversation, spiced with the observations of some of our seminarians who are from Latin America and Africa.

Please keep all of the young men preparing for priesthood in your prayers.  We need more shepherds!

To view or download the power-point, please click here.

This morning, I had the honor of appearing on Relevant Radio in the 8am hour.   Sean Herriott is the host of “Morning Air” and we had a great half-hour conversation regarding  youth ministry and the future (shocker: two of my favorite subjects!) Listen to the streaming file and Download the .mp3.

Here are some of the things that I referenced in the conversation.
> A Church for Young People
> CARA Study regarding 2010 Ordinands
> Youth Ministry 3.0 the book and my take 
> Abandoning Young People
> Parents Aren’t the Enemy

Thanks to Doug Thompson and to Roy Petitfils for making the connection.

If you were watching the twitter feed over on the left, you have have suspected that something was up and you were right.  I was away for a extended weekend to visit my son- who is stationed as an US Army Medic over at Schofield Barracks… in Hawai’i.

While doing so, I took a break from vacation and committed a busman’s holiday act, offering a training for Lisa Gomes, the director for Youth and Young Adult Ministry for the Diocese of Honolulu. Two Daughters of Saint Paul (and fellow bloggers) reported on the event.

Anyway, as promised the full power point is available. There is a fair amount of presentation that accompanies these slides and that can found within a larger series of hyperlinks here.  There were also two videos: Will I from Rent and What’s Going to Happen?

Mahalo!

In early March, at the Simply Youth Ministry Conference, one of the speakers, Tim Schmoyer videoed his seminar on Communicating Youth Group News with Teens and Parents.

Now at just over 100 minutes, this is the longest embedded video ever at this site…  but if you would like to attend a workshop, close the door, put your feet up, pull out your pen and paper or open a second window on your screen and take some notes.

Tim is a real accessible expert on things youth ministry and tech.  It’s worth a view.

So, last night in Frederick, we held what potentially is our last “old-school” Youth Ministry Seminar class.  The power point is now available. 

If you missed the class and would like to make it up, please review the power point, especially slides 52-65 as we retell the first presentation of the Christian message along the Emmaus walk (especially timely in this Easter season.) There is a fair amount of presentation that accompanies these slides and that can found within a larger series of hyperlinks here.  Watch the slides, read some of the text and comment below how context,content, communion, and conspiracy might look within a catechetical setting.

Finally, as promised, we viewed a clip (which is available for purchase) featuring Kenda Creasy Dean and her teaching using water.  It can be found on MyCatholicVoice.com

Recently, my co-worker and fellow blogger Sharon Bogusz offered a presentation on Generations: The Changing Face of the American Church. 

In her blog posting, she offers links to her research. And, she also graciously makes her power-point presentation available as well. It’s worth checking out.

The power-point from the Living Your Live As a Better Story workshop from the Central Maryland Formation Day is now available.  (First two slides are intentionally blank.)

As promised, for the participants of the Seminars in Youth Ministry, the power point is now available!  Following the hyperlink.

Good News.  I’m going to live blog the general sessions at the Conference.  We’ll see how it all plays out.  As always, forgive the typos…