WELCOME!The Practice Discipleship Initiative

March 10, 2014

Introducing…

Dawn TrautmanLutheranLifeCoach.com

Practice Discipleship InitiativeLeadership Development for the sake of Faith Formation

“FRAME”1. “Framing Life Biblically”2. “Framing Youth”3. “Framing Failure with Forgiveness”4. “Framing Christian Community”5. “Framing the Vision: Seeing Things New”6. “Framing the Path: Practicing Things New”

Introducing…

Dr. Jeremy MyersAugusburg Collegeaugsburg.edu

Framing Youth

FRAMING YOUTH

Jeremy Myers | Augsburg College

GOALS:1.Recognize the source of our stereotypes about youth2.Understand how this view of youth limits our ministry with them3.Begin imagining a new way of thinking about youth & how it might shape our ministry

1. Moratorium2. Cultural Anxieties3. Child Labor Laws4. The Great Depression5. The High School

(1904)

Hall’s Moratorium•Unique phase of life•Storm and stress•Raging hormones

Cultural Anxieties•Race relations•Gender roles•Nation building

National Child Labor Com

mitt

ee (1904)

<1/2 (1930) 2/3 (1940)

High School

youth culture

Moratorium | Cultural Anxieties | Child Labor Laws Great Depression | American High School

Undeveloped Consumer

• Undeveloped• Identity-Less• Self-Centered• Consumer

Where do you see the “residue” of this framework in your congregation’s

ministry with youth?

Undeveloped Consumer

• Undeveloped• Identity-Less• Self-Centered• Consumer

Called Agent

• Called• Child of God• Relational• Agent

Young people aren’t developing, they are called . . . Right now!

Young people are not identity-less, they are Children of God.

Young people are not self-centered, they are deeply relational.

Young people are not passive consumers, they are powerful agents.

CALLED CHILD OF GOD

RELATIONAL AGENT

Thoughts…Questions…Reflections…

Jeremy Myers Dawn TrautmanPlease type your questions or comments

into the question box on your screen. We’ll try to get to as many of them as we can.

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Guest: Colleen Windham-HughesDate: April 10, 2014Time: 1pm Central TimeTopic: “Framing Failure

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