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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.