Youth ministries in American churches must shift their efforts away from molding children to be "consumers" to involving them as "participants" in the "Gospel mission," the head of the Barna Group has advised.
Youth ministries in American churches must shift their efforts away from molding children to be "consumers" to involving them as "participants" in the "Gospel mission," the head of the Barna Group has advised.
Youth ministries in American churches must shift their efforts away from molding children to be "consumers" to involving them as "participants" in the "Gospel mission," the head of the Barna Group has advised.
An attendee of a Kingdom Youth Conference event at Destiny Life Church in Claremore, Oklahoma in April 2019 raises her hands in worship. | Kingdom Youth Conference
Thousands of children across the United States will attend youth ministry conferences this year put on by an organization that has emerged to help fill the void left by the closure of Ron Luceâs Teen Mania and it s iconic national âAcquire the Fireâ youth conferences.Â
As financial troubles caused Teen Mania to fold in 2015 after more than two decades of holding revival-like events attended by over 3 million youth nationwide, Ryan Edberg, the frontman for the Christian rock band Silverline, has acted on a new calling in his life after over 13 years in the music industry.Â
Pastor Kemtal Glasgow speaks to children during a Kingdom Youth Conference event | Kingdom Youth Conference
As young people across the country struggle with both their mental and spiritual health amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the leader of a national Christian youth conference felt God calling him to hold events across the nation free of charge.
Kingdom Youth Conferences, a youth event designed to impact students and leaders and inspire them to live out their faith, will bring its conference to Texas, Arizona, Florida and Colorado, beginning this month through April.
“Kids need a sense of hope right now,” Ryan Edberg, Kingdom Youth Conferences co-founder, told The Christian Post. “I think that there s a season of revival coming in the church, and I think it s coming through the youth.”