The Purpose Of This Website
My name is Jenn and I’ve served in urban ministry for the last eight 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 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 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.
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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!
Hi,
I am a student at Columbia School of Social Work and Union Theological Seminary in NYC and I am doing research on Race and Christian Service Ministries. I grew-up in Brooklyn in the inner-city and was not raised in a Christian home but used to go to some Yogi Bear events. At 14 after 4 years of being led to pray and read the Bible I went to a church in my neighborhood and accepted Christ as my savior. I now am studying to go back to my neighborhood and do inner-city ministry and organizing. I wanted to ask if I could interview you via email on your experiences in Yogi Bear? It would really help me with my research.
P.S. oa2145@columbia.edu
Hi! wow! You said exactly how I feel. I am a children’s pastor and I am starting a urban bus ministry. I have so many questions about ministering to urban children and I can find no resources or people who can help me 😦 I worked in a hispanic church in Dallas so I know a little bit about urban ministry but not much 🙂 I would love to talk to you and learn from you! I am sure you have much wisdom after doing urban ministry to kids for five years!
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