Institute for Youth Ministry

Cloud of Witnesses: An Audio Journal on Youth, Church, and Culture

Volume 7: Mission

Cloud of Witnesses offers theological reflection on youth ministry. It brings together scholars, pastors, lay people and youth to support church leaders in their ministry. This journal is for anyone concerned with reaching young people with the good news of Jesus Christ.

All downloads are in mp3 format.

 
Contents:
1. Introduction (1:51)
2. Developing Compassion in Youth (12:29)
Larry Coulter

Larry Coulter is pastor of Shepherd of the Hills Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas.

3. Diary of a Mission Trip (14:04)
Mikaila Gawryn and Alex Knopes

Mikaila Gawryn and Alex Knopes are high school students who are members of Mercer Island Presbyterian Church in Washington. They recently went to Tijuana, Mexico with their youth group to build homes with the organization Homes without Boundaries.

4. A Two Way Street (9:29)
Carlos Cordoza-Orlandi

Carlos Cordoza-Orlandi is associate professor of world Christianity at Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia.

5. In Ministry: Tina McCormick on Mission (9:48)
Tina McCormick

Tina McCormick is associate pastor of The Presbyterian Church in Westfield New Jersey.

6. Emptied for Love (4:41)
Kent Annan

Kent Annan lives in Haiti, where he works for Beyond Borders, a Christian nonprofit organization focused on education and literacy training.

7. Arts in Mission (9:01)
Vivian Nix-Early

Vivian Nix-Early is dean of the Campolo School for Social Change at Eastern University and the cofounder with Nathan Corbitt of BuildaBridge International, a faith-based arts education organization.

8. A Missional Church (9:32)
Darrell L. Guder

Darrell L. Guder is the Henry Winters Luce Professor of Missional and Ecumenical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary and the editor of Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America.

 
Speakers:
 
 
Bonus Clips

All bonus clips are in mp3 format.

The Vitality of the Church in Latin America (4:31)
Carlos Cordoza-Orlandi
Youth Ministry in a Missional Church (2:44)
Darrell L. Guder
How Being a Missional Church Influences the Interpretation of Scripture (1:37)
Darrell L. Guder
Integrating Mission into Ministry With Youth (2:42)
Tina McCormick
The Arts and Community Development (2:33)
Vivan Nix-Early
 

Editors:
Dayle Gillespie Rounds
Amy Scott Vaughn
Codirectors, Institute for Youth Ministry

Host:
Joicy Becker-Richards
Director of Educational Media

Digital Editing, Engineering,
& Sound Design:

Kevin Jackson

Art Design and Layout:
Mistyfied Media Group

Mastered at Lake McKinley North, Cumming, Georgia
CD duplication by Educational Media, Princeton Theological Seminary