For Him and Them by Dean Cowles, YPN President

A monthly message from YouthPartnersNET President Dean Cowles.

For Him and Them by Dean Cowles

March 2007

YPN at RELOAD

This month YPN was proud to be a co-sponsor of RELOAD Denver and RELOAD Chicago, the nationwide training by Urban Youth Workers Institute.

Join YPN at RELOAD!

The events were full of inspired worship, excellent general session speakers and a host of practical workshops to equip and encourage these frontline workers and volunteers. Many came by our booth to thank us for helping sponsor this annual event. Here are some of the topics covered at RELOAD:

  • Developing the next generation leaders around you
  • Growing deep: building a more theologically-sound youth ministry
  • Organizing your ministry: from chaos to clarity
  • Helping kids, families, and communities who hurt
  • Bagged lunch and a drop of oil: multiplying resources for urban ministry
  • Why the world is winning our youth through media
  • How to engage the hip-hop culture for ministry impact
  • When sugar and spice turn toxic: relational aggression in girls
  • Reaching out to gangs in the neighborhood
  • Helping youth develop for-profit entrepreneurships
  • Urban youth ministry for the long haul

This is the only training event most of these young folks will attend and can afford all year long. Due to YPN and other sponsors, the cost is only $15 and that includes lunch and snacks. Maybe you would like to sponsor more of these workers around the country. There's still time left as the nationwide tour finishes up in Los Angeles, Boston, Detroit, Albuquerque, and Atlanta May 5th. Just send in a gift and how many workers you'd like to sponsor.

I think you can tell by the pictures below that many lives were impacted "for the Kingdom".

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For Him and Them,

Dean Cowles

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