The Purpose Of This Website
My name is Jenn and I’ve served in urban ministry for the last five years with a particular emphasis in ministry to children at risk. I have a Master of Arts degree in Intercultural Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary and a passion to use my training as a missiologist to form contextualized, culturally relevant and appropriate methods to evangelize children in urban contexts.
As an academic, I wanted to read and research and find out what others were doing in this field. I found a few books on ministry to urban teenagers, but finding books or articles or even websites about ministry to urban children was very difficult. Was urban children’s ministry not valued?
I did a Google search for “urban children’s ministry” and didn’t find much.There was, of course, Rudy Carassco and his fabulous Urban Onramps blog and The Harambee Center, a few links to the valuable Urban Youth Workers Institute, some college referrals, and a couple of old conferences. I was really disappointed at the lack of resources for urban children’s ministry. There are tons of resources for children’s ministry in general, but anyone in urban ministry will tell you that urban life is a different world with different problems! What works in the middle class suburban mega-church will not necessary work in Brownsville – Brooklyn, NY. And I wanted to know more than Sunday School curriculum. What about strategy? What works and doesn’t work in ministry to children in an urban context? I have so many questions and issues to discuss, but felt there wasn’t anywhere to go. I do value ministry to urban teenagers, I felt like urban children’s ministry wasn’t valued that you could automatically transfer general children’s ministry principles to urban kids.
I knew there had to be others out there just like me, so I created this blog as a place to network and share resources. While I do want to discuss ministry to urban teenagers, I want an emphasis to be placed on ministry to children. This is a blog where we value children and want to intelligently and academically consider ministry to them.
You make me proud and offer so very much hope for children. Continue your search. Should you ever require research on a black family urban living I have some insight. God be with you.
I hope all goes well in NJ. We will be praying for you- always. BTW- not so much related, but my hubby thinks your pretty
You can’t hav’m, but take any encouragement from this- if you want. 
I told him I would tell you 
“She pretty”
Wow, what a great testimony… keep it up!
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I just want to say how wonderful it is to read and agree with what you just said. I have been in Urban ministry in the South Bronx since May 2001 and have felt the lack of resources for quite sometime. And really I have a burden to change that!