DE010-512 - Youth Ministry

  • 2,784 Standard Tuition Fee
  • 12
    Credit Points
  • 0.125 EFT 
  • 5
    AQF level
  • Category foundational unit
    A
  • develop ministeriesUnit Discipline

Exclusions

Prior to 2020, this unit content was delivered under the unit code DM310 or DM010-512. Exclusions: DM037

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will

A. Know and understand

Demonstrate Foundational knowledge and understanding of youth ministry, including the methods and standards of professional, safe and ethical practice.

B. Be able to

1. Outline the biblical, theological, historical and strategic foundations of youth ministry

2. Identify the Foundational aspects of contemporary youth

3. Describe the nature, shape and forms of youth ministry 

4. Present Organised evidence-based perspectives on youth ministry

C. Be in a position to

1. Relating perspectives and skills from ‘Youth Ministry’ to contemporary Christian living and youth ministry contexts

Content

Section A: Biblical, Theological, Historical and Strategic Foundations for Youth Ministry with an Introduction to Youth in Society.

  1. The Bible’s teaching on youth and young people.
  2. Developing a theology of youth ministry.  Biblical authority in a postmodern world.  Relational theology. Incarnation and reconciliation.
  3. Historical overview of Christian youth ministry in Australia, especially since World War 2.
  4. An examination and development of strategic models of youth ministry; motivation; goals; content; methodologies.

Section B: Youth Today

  1. A survey of the place and understanding of youth in western society.
  2. Major aspects of youth cultures in Australia, in the light of secularisation.  The changing nature of youth subcultures.
  3. The beliefs and values of significant youth subcultures, including varieties of household types, ethnicity, rural or urban contexts; students, workers and the unemployed.  The contexts where young people gather.

Set Readings

This unit's indicative bibliography is currently being revised. Students should contact their home college for further details at the time of taking this unit.


Butcher, T. (ed.), Emerging Youth Cultures Urban Australia (Melbourne: Pluto, 2003).

Dean, K., C. Clark and D. Rahn, Starting Right: Thinking Theologically about Youth Ministry (Grand Rapids: Youth Specialties; Zondervan, 2001).

Fields, D., Your First Two Years in Youth Ministry (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002).

Heflin, H., Youth Pastor: The Theology and Practice of Youth Ministry (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2009).

Higgs, M., Youth Ministries from the Inside Out (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2004).

Jones, T., Postmodern Youth Ministry (Grand Rapids: Youth Specialities; Zondervan, 2001).

Mason, M. C., A. Singleton and R. Webber, The Spirit of Generation Y: Young People's Spirituality in a Changing Australia (Mulgrave, Vic: John Garratt Publishing, 2007).

Muggleton, D. and R. Weinzerl, The Post-Subcultures Reader (Oxford: Berg, 2004).

Nilan, P. M., R. Julian and J. Germov, Australian Youth: Social and Cultural Issues (Frenchs Forest, N.S.W: Pearson Education Australia, 2007).

Senter, B., Clark and Nel, Four Views of Youth Ministry and the Church (Grand Rapids: Youth Specialities; Zondervan).

Strommen, M. P., K. Jones and D. Rahn, Youth Ministry That Transforms (Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2001).

Yaconelli, M., The Core Realities of Youth Ministry: Nine Biblical Principles that Mark Healthy Youth Ministries (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003).