ELD4300EN - Launching & Leading Urban Youth Mission

Course description

Youth leaders often deploy a “ready … fire … aim” approach. This course examines the fundamentals of urban ministry development (e.g. counting the cost, defining purpose, understanding urban context, implementing clear strategies), and presents strategic frameworks for youth ministry development.

How this course benefits students

People engaged in or seeking to enter urban youth ministry need tangible models and a solid biblical basis for urban youth development. This course will help students establish a framework out of which they can pursue a transformational ministry among the youth they serve/plan to serve.

Why this course is important

Transformational Discipleship, as a missional approach to urban youth discipleship, is new to the urban ministry scene. Its focus on youth leadership multiplication at the grass-root level addresses a significant need in city-centers across the country.

Credit hours
3 hours
Subject area
Emerging Leadership
Educational level
Bachelor
Learning type
Instructional
Prerequisites
None
Upcoming terms
Pending
* Schedule subject to change. Please contact the Registrar's office with schedule questions.

How this course relates to missional core values

Biblically based

The Transformational Discipleship approach to urban youth ministry is in large a call to reexamine urban youth ministry and rediscover a more biblical approach to urban youth ministry.

Missionally driven

Mission must be the driving force behind the Transformational Discipleship approach to urban youth discipleship.

Contextually informed

A Transformational Discipleship ministry demands the contextualization of biblical truth to urban youth and the urban context.

Interculturally focused

Transformational Discipleship is interculturally focused in that leaders must develop the capacity to see the world through the eyes of others: urban youth, the underclass community, and most importantly God Himself.

Practically minded

Transformational Discipleship was birthed in the urban community and is designed for practitioners serving youth at the grass-root level.

Experientially transformed

The primary result of a Transformational Discipleship ministry is change: the transformation of young lives in the city.