Fall 2014/Pasadena

YF590

Leys

 

YF590:  ALCANZANDO A LAS GENERACIONES EMERGENTES (Reaching the Emerging Generations).  Lucas Leys.

                                                                                                                                                           

 

DESCRIPTION:  This course is designed to help students understand how to reach and minister to young people in a changing world, particularly within a Latino context. It will include practical ideas, concepts and principles for evangelizing and making disciples of current and future generations. The course will use a modular format focusing on the following topics: 1) adolescence and youth; 2) the purposes of youth ministry; 3) youth programming; 4) evangelism and relational discipleship; 5) effective leadership; and 6) the current cultural context.

 

LEARNING OUTCOMES:  Specifically, students will (1) better understand the internal processes of adolescent development and the principal needs in light of each stage of development; (2) recognize the need for the church to care about adolescents and to constructively find ways to assimilate them into the life of the church community; (3) identify principles that make for an effective, theologically-driven youth program; (4) recognize and discover how to integrate into their lives the foundational elements of an effective youth ministry in a changing Latino sub-culture; (5) have the ability to discern the needs of a social situation and be able to adapt their ministries so that they can be more attractive to and effective with new generations; (6) integrate what is learned in class and be able to begin putting what is learned into practice.

 

COURSE FORMAT: This is a conference course/directed study based in part on attending Youth SpecialtiesŐ International (Spanish) Youth Workers Convention, November 21-23, 2014 in Orlando Florida. Student must register for academic credit at Fuller, but also register separately for the conference. Lectures, class discussion, and presentations by guest experts will make up the class time.

 

REQUIRED READING:

Leys, Lucas. El Ministerio Juvenil Efectivo. 2nd ed. Editorial Vida, 2009. ISBN: 978-0829755084, Pub. Price $11.99 [208 pp.].

Ort’z, Felix. Ra’ces: Pastoral juvenil en Profundidad. Editorial Vida, 2010.

Clark, Chap & Kara E. Powell. Salvando a una generaci—n de un mundo superficial. Editorial Vida, 2012.

 

RECOMMENDED READING:

Fields, Doug. Ministerio de j—venes con prop—sito. Editorial Vida, 2000.

Bomar, Chuck. C—mo trabajar con j—venes de 18 a 25 a–os. Editorial Vida, 2011.

Kimball, Dan. La iglesia Emergente. Editorial Vida, 1998 (260 pages).

Nichols, Sharon L. and Thomas L. Good. AmericaŐs Teenagers—Myths and Realities: Media Images, Schooling, and the Social Costs of Careless Indifferences. Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004.

Montero-Sieburth, Martha, and Francisco Villarruel, eds. Making Invisible Latino Adolescents Visible: A Critical Approach to Latino Diversity. New York : Falmer Press, 2000.

Oestreicher, Mark. Ministerio Juvenil 3.0 . Editorial Vida, 2010.

Stevenson, D. and Barbara L. Schneider. The Ambitious Generation: AmericaŐs Teenagers, Motivated but Directionless. Yale University Press, 1999.

 

ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT:

  1. Write a book report for each of the three required texts (2-4 pages each) and two of the required readings.
  2. Present a quarter-long program for youth ministry in a local church using what was learned in classes (3-5 pages).
  3. Write a socio-cultural analysis of the young people in the student's local church (or of some other specific youth group previously approved by the professor) (8-10 pages). (A guide will be provided at the beginning of the class)

 

PREREQUISITES:  Spanish. This is a conference course/directed study based in part on attending Youth SpecialtiesŐ International (Spanish) Youth Workers Convention, November 21-23, 2014 in Orlando Florida. Student must register for academic credit at Fuller, but also register separately for the conference. Please contact the Hispanic Center for conference registration information: 626.584.5586 or hisp-ministries@fuller.edu.

 

 

RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM:  Meets the M.Div. core requirement in Christian Formation and Discipleship (MIN4).

 

FINAL EXAMINATION:  None.