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April 3, 2008 Meeting
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YMN Business
- Ministry Day 2008/2009
- Please come!
- Presentation from Fr. Kevin McDonough to dispel rumors about reorganization
- Honor lunch for Archbishop Flynn
- 2 more coming in the fall
- Future of YMN
- Leadership Nominations
- The following people were nominated for leadership for next year: Becky Phillips, Jolaine Jennison, Steve Richter, Alisa Weber, Paula Minell, Maria Amundsen, Cari White, Kate Berry
- Nominees have a month to discern and then will give an answer
- Commissioning will be at our June picnic at Minnehaha Falls, where Archbishop Neinstadt will hopefully join us.
- Location
- The Hayden Center can be difficult due to parking and due to sometimes being bumped out of the room
- Leadership has met with the Cathedral to potentially meet there
- Negotiating with them on a price
- Suggestion that we could meet at Corpus Christie in Roseville
- RSVP for meals
- If you would be willing to RSVP, that would help us hugely to be able to budget and order responsibly for food
- Topics for next year
- Would like to include a Catholic Mutual liability workshop
- Evals will be emailed during May
- Molly posed suggestion to once or twice a year having an evening YMN meeting so that part time or volunteer youth ministers could participate
Announcements
- Youth Rally
- April 12 from 2-9:30 at St. Therese in Deephaven; will be a great day: Mike Bernard, Bishop Pates, breakouts … (Cari White)
- Easy fundraiser: ReCycle.com is collecting old bikes – once you have 5, a company will come to collect them, and pay $7.50 per bike, Brian Hefer and Jimmy Dunn have both had huge success (see flier)
- CPR Training
- This will be our May professional development
- Need to arrive by 9:30 and plan to stay until 2 pm if you would like to be certified
- Cost is only $25, but we need to know #s ahead of time
- Amy will send a reminder email for RSVPs
- Will be led by Eagan Fire Department
- Bill’s Bulletin
- Region 8 Leadership Camp (see flier)
- April 15 7-9 pm Boundary Liability Training for WYD and Mission Trip volunteers, but need to contact Bill to sign up because space will be tight
- Youth Ministers Symposium this fall will be on September 25 with Tom East, morning sponsored by publishers through ACRE, afternoon sponsored by Archdiocese;
- A number of groups are going to WYD, 232 total people from the Archdiocese are attending; Molly and Bill will be on Relavent Radio from 9-10 am tomorrow morning.
- Adult NFCYM conference flier will be avail April 15; will be in Cleveland in Oct-Nov this fall
Professional Development
Keeping up with Youth Culture
Presented by Tiger McLuen
- Doing a training 3 hrs next Th on helping kids in crisis at our office in Shoreview- if you’re interested, you can have a $10 discount, so $40 cost
- Topic is keeping up with youth culture as we’re getting older
- If you think that what you have to offer to kids is that you are young, cool, and relevant, you will blink and it will be gone
- Youth culture quiz
- We want to realize how culture impacts kids AND us!
- Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montanna
- Jonas Brother
- Kenye West
- Bam
- Avril Lavine
- Zach Effron
- Actor from Juno and Superbad
- Nick Canno
- Labram James
- Fallout Boy
- Youth Culture Quiz part 2
- Breakfast Club
- Turning point for Tiger because he hated every message of the movie – realized that he was getting old/no longer endorsing all of culture
- Question: how do you love a kid unconditionally and yet still challenge culture and urge them to
- Dukes of Hazzard (Bo and Luke)
- Fresh Prince
- Charlies Angels
- Andy Griffith
- Hawaii 5-0
- Full House
- Dawson’s Creek
- Cosby Show
- New Kids on the Block
- Jeffersons
- Gilligans Island
- Culture and adolescence are totally intertwined
- Adolescence
- Is created by culture
- not an independent unit
- there are parts of the world where it does not exist
- Jesus was never an adolescent as we understand it
- It is being extended
- used to be 13-18
- currently happening around 10-11 right now and extending to early/mid 20’s
- HS is now middle adolescence
- It is getting riskier
- the job that we have is now very different than it was before
- Focuses on identity
- Kids ask: who am I?
- Kids ask: whose am I?
- Getting busier
- not a neutral issue
- stealing the souls of our kids/leaders
- Caught in culture
- How are we caught in culture?
- Do we have: iPhone, iPod, use iTunes, cell phone, cable, high speed internet …
- We are immersed in it
- Asking kids to evaluate culture is like asking goldfish to evaluate the aquarium
- If we are in the aquarium, your job is coming out and doing some eval
- If we are out, we need to learn how to get in there once in a whie to stay current – not to impress the kids, but to understand where they are at
- How to be “in the world but not of the world”
- How can we do that
- radio stations
- PluggedIn or Journal of Student ministries
- intentionally have people who are immersed in the culture can give you their perspective
- UrbanDictionary.com
- subscribe to Seventeen, Rolling Stone
- America is getting older
- Population over 65 will nearly triple from 2000 to 2050
- Urbanization of America continues
- People are moving to cities/suburbs and no one staying in rural areas
- Technological Culturalization due to cable/internet…
- Family unit continues to change
- Color of America is changing
- universally being felt in America, except in the Church
- anything we think will give us life, that is other than the Creator of Life – def’n of idolotry
- Technology
- ever tried to unplug kids on a retreat?
- it’s painful for them!
- how do we love that kid, but challenge them?
- Information
- put info and technology together and there is no control
- anything that restricts information becomes the enemy
- sadness of – for example – schools, libraries are not willing to filter internet for the sake of protection of the 9-year old who might run across something
- Change
- anything that limits change becomes the enemy
- change innovators are the ones who when a change happens in society, they are the first ones to get it
- change early adopters – the ones who don’t wait in line but in the first week
- early majority – getting iPods now
- late majority – don’t text at all
- laggards – get giant remotes, think it’s cool that there are no wires
- Choice
- is becoming an addiction
- any thing/institution/person who says that all those choices are not a good thing becomes archaic
- Money
- Personality
- classic ex – our previous Governor
- Happiness
- addictive behavior to find whatever that word means
- this is the idol that we are always trying to hit in ministry
- how has this culture bamboozled me?
- we have misunderstood our job and the Bible – the beatitudes
- when you are in leadership, you always have 2 questions to ask
- what is going on in/affecting me?
- What is going on in/affecting those I serve?
- Our job is figuring out how not to be owned by the aquarium
- Over scheduling/busy-ness
- Family/parents balancing jobs
- Pressure to succeed
- I – world (all about me)
- Changing of family sturcture
- Sex as acceptable/normative moving towards pornography
- Fashion
- TV shows/Movies/Hollywood writers
- Media
- Ex – why was the media so hooked on the writer of Juno? Why did she get so much press?
- looked the “cool” part
- what she wrote about is directed to teens, who reflect culture and are a target population
- counter-culture message of the movie
- Tiger’s guess – former stripper turned writer; sex sells
- Tiger is constantly asking himself these sorts of questions
- The movie put the 16-year old main character in the world view of mind of an ex-stripper
- Hidden category of influence – writers, etc.
- Mobility all over the world
- Desensitization
- Music
- Drugs/Gangs
- Community influences
- Talk about God more – push against that is that we become comfortable with a vague spirituality that means little and often disconnects with life
- Ask, what are you listening to? Can I listen? Then ask yourself, what message are they sending?
- Go to the school lunch room – talk to kids from church but also just listen to conversations that are happening
- Find ways to watch little clips of current movies
- We have the dilemma of staying current, so that we are not assuming that they have our world view (but can hear from our world view) without giving out money to support negative influences
- Recognize that parents have given in to the culture
- Family values
- Compare a 1980s R movie to today’s R movie
- Terms of Endearment- first PG13 movie with Fword
- On their MySpace/Facebook, when they talk about a negative movie ... how do you point out the disconnect with their faith
- How do we create in them a skill set to be able to critically think about their culture