Early day with Kenda Creasy Dean
We’re delighted to have Prof. Kenda Creasy Dean join us at the National Youth Ministry Weekend 2024. As well as speaking during the weekend, Kenda will also be leading a special one day workshop on Friday 22nd November ahead of the main conference opening later that day.
The theme for our Early Day How to Build a Youth Work Project is based on Kenda’s new book. In a complex, changing world, understanding and meeting the needs of today’s young people can feel like an overwhelming task. How do we create youth ministries which make sense and feel welcoming to teenagers, and still enable us to share the transforming love of Jesus with them?
In this action-packed day-long workshop, she’ll take you through the process of analysing the needs of your community and developing youth work projects which can really work.
Drawing on Biblical stories and wisdom, and using innovative creative tools, this day will enable you to work through the obstacles you’re facing and make a fresh start in your vital engagement with young people.
Kenda will be leading this special Early Day practical workshop from 10am to 4pm on Friday 22nd November at the same venue as the main NYMW conference. Tickets are strictly limited and available for £35. Alternatively you can purchase a ‘Back for Sunday’ ticket which gives you access to the Early Day and the main conference through to Saturday evening.
10.00am – Early Day registrations and Session 1
11.45am – Session 2
2.00pm – Session 3
3.30pm – Q&A
4.00pm – Early Day concludes
Got a question about the Early Day? Email nymw@youthscape.co.uk and we’ll do our best to help.
Kenda Creasy Dean
Kenda is Professor of Youth, Church and Culture at Princeton Theological Seminary in the USA. She is the world’s leading expert in youth ministry innovation and one of the world’s best-known writers about young people and the church. He books include The Godbearing Life: The Art of Soul-Tending for Youth Ministry, Practicing Passion: Youth and the Quest for a Passionate Church and Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church.
Megan Dewald
Megan DeWald (she/her) is the Director of the Institute for Youth Ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary, where she oversees research, facilitates training, creates community, and designs resources for people engaged in youth ministry. She is also the new co-author of the revised version of The Godbearing Life: The Art of Soul Tending in Youth Ministry, with Kenda Creasy Dean and Ron Foster. With over two decades of experience in youth and young adult ministry, Megan is passionate about nurturing authentic connection and friendship among people from different social locations and equipping leaders to understand and navigate systems, structures, and relationships.
