Resouce.

Urban Youth Workers Institute has a great resource of mp3s of many of the workshops from their annual conference. My favorites are:
A Place of Community by Efrem Smith
and
What Every Woman In Youth Ministry Needs to Know by Kara Powell
There are many, many more really helpful workshops, so check it out!

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I listened and then she went to juvenile hall.

In my last post I shared about A., one of the teens I’ve been mentoring. By the next weekend her mother had arranged for her to be sent to juvenile hall. I was shocked and saddened. It all seems like such an extreme arrangement and it felt so unjust because I really feel [...]

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I just listened.

Yesterday, after church, I went on visitation. I usually go on Wednesday afternoons, but this Wednesday I am subbing for our receptionist and will be tied to the office.
It snowed on Sunday morning, so the ground was covered with snow and ice, and it was very, very cold. I had several packages to [...]

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Updated.

I’m going to try really hard to update this more often. I’m not sure who visits, but even if no one visits this page, I can use this as an online journal for myself!
Today was a visitation day, as usual for our “winter schedule” time. The little brother of one of my workers came [...]

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