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Looking for a great youth ministry leadership opportunity? Peer Ministry Training is an opportunity to come together with high school youth and youth counselors from across our District that want to learn additional/intentional skills in discipleship to serve in their youth ministry -- in their congregation, their school, their community and their family.
The District Family Life and Youth Board are inviting you and/or your youth to Peer Ministry Training on February 17-19, 2012 at Camp Wartburg, in Waterloo IL.
You are not doing youth ministry until youth are doing the ministry.
This year's Peer Ministry Training will consist of:
Peer Ministry Training. This is the entry level course designed to teach participants:
• Quality training in caring skills
• Commitment to growth in faith and values
• Christian service to other people
• A life-long attitude of ministry
• Welcoming
• Listening with care
There will be two sessions of Peer Ministry Training taught this year.
Peer Ministry Training 2. This is the follow up course to Peer Ministry Training. Participants in this course must have been through the Peer Ministry Training course prior to participation in this course.
Who do kids talk to first about the important issues? Their peers.
Peer Ministers use their ministry skills:
* In one-on-one relationships
* In their family relationships
* serving their own congregation
*their school
* As part of a caring lifestyle of ministry
Peer Ministry—because easy listening exists only on the radio.
Our training teams will be headed by Rev. Gene Wyssmann, Assistant to the President for Family Life & Youth Ministry and Rev. Mark Martin and Ms. Christina Stackle, members of the Missouri District Board for Family Life and Youth. The members of the teaching teams have been certified as instructors in Peer Ministry.
Your cost for the entire weekend of training is just $75 per person. The actual cost for the training is over $200 per person which includes staff, materials, housing and meals. However, the Missouri District Board for Family Life & Youth Ministry is providing funds to pay the balance per person for youth and counselors.
Please send your registration form(s) and a check for $75 per person payable to the Missouri District, attention: Sue Thompson, as soon as possible -- but no later than February 1st.
Registrations are to be mailed to: Peer Ministry Training - The Missouri District -- LCMS, 660 Mason Ridge Center Drive, Suite 100, St. Louis, MO 63141.
The medical forms should be brought to the training and NOT sent to the District office with your registration. Please duplicate forms as needed.
Please call us at (314) 590-6217 or email Sue.Thompson@mo.lcms.org for more information. Information is also on our Web site at http://mo.lcms.org/. Training takes place in small groups. You may encourage your young people to call or email me as well to encourage them to become peer ministers.
Students can register individually or in a group -- no adult counselors need to register for youth to participate. However, it is best to have a trained adult leader in your congregation, so if you don't have one, please register with you students to assist them in this ministry.
Peer Ministry is taking what concerns youth the most—relationships—and lets them discover that relationships are ministry.
Peer Ministry: To the world you may be no one, but to someone you may be the world.
Registration suggestion:
We discovered through our teaching Peer Ministry Training that a team of two or three teens and an adult youth leader would is ideal. Individuals that came alone found themselves missing the support needed to grow together and support one another at "home". Yes, the registration fee of $75 per person is the same amount for youth and adult participants.
You will need to bring your Bible and supplies to take notes, plus recreational and personal needs. You can bring items for evening activities, such as table games, cards, etc. Sleeping arrangements at Camp Wartburg are "camp style" on bunk beds with 14-20 bunks in a room. Males and females will sleep in separate quarters. You will need to bring sleeping bags, and towels as these are not provided at Camp Wartburg. On Saturday afternoon, weather permitting, we will be using both the low and high ropes challenges courses. This will take place under the trained supervision of the Camp Wartburg staff. All participants will need to bring Camp Wartburg's permission forms (included in the packet) signed by a parent or guardian with them to Peer Ministry Training.
Peer Ministry Training will be an outstanding experience with great training/leadership teams and great youth and counselors that will come together to learn, grow and serve. Share this opportunity with everyone in your youth ministry.
We hope to see you there!
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