Dissertations / Theses: 'Chicago Youth for Christ'

1

Gerig, John Wesley. "Youth ministry in Russia : a case study of two Youth for Christ camps." Thesis, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.732949.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

2

Price, Donald James. "A study of lay volunteer youth workers in Chicago metropolitan area churches." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

3

Joiner, Steven Craig. "A comparative history of youth ministry in the churches of Christ." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

4

Anderson, Gregory. "Leadership Traits of Long Tenured Youth Ministers in Churches of Christ." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10607328.

Full text

Abstract:

Although typically not responsible for leadership decision-making that impacts the spiritual growth of the entire organization, youth ministers play a vital leadership role in congregational health as leaders of smaller communities within greater communities of faith. This leadership role is threatened by numerous challenges facing youth ministers of all denominations. Specific to this study, the vital role of youth ministry in Churches of Christ is threatened by high turnover rates of those within the profession. The purpose of this study was to determine leadership practices and strategies that are employed by long tenured youth ministers in Churches of Christ, identify the challenges those youth ministers have faced in implementing leadership practices, discover how they measure successful youth ministry leadership strategies and practices and ascertain their recommendations for implementing leadership strategies and practices within their profession.

Data were collected from 15 full time youth ministers in Churches of Christ from throughout the United States. The qualitative, phenomenological study utilized a 12-question semi-structured interview format to gather the lived experience of subjects. Key study findings identified 70 themes that answered four research questions. Specifically, self-awareness was the top trait study participants used to describe themselves as leaders. Additionally, participants identified creating an others-focused environment as the top strategy or practice as a contributor to long tenure at the same church. The findings of this study have substantive implications for men and women considering youth ministry as a career or calling, and for institutions of learning that train those preparing for the youth ministry profession.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

5

Kim, Jeana. "Freedom in Christ understanding legalism, license, and liberty : a study for youth /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p068-0579.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

6

Kim, Moon Hyun. "Revitalizing the congregation by preaching on the parables of Jesus." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

7

Tirabassi, Roger. "A counseling training program for volunteers in the Greater Cleveland Youth for Christ Organization." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

8

Freeman, Ricky. "Rethinking gender and authority in Christ increasing knowledge and changing attitudes about women in ministry at Saint John Church-Baptist, Chicago, Illinois /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2002. http://www.tren.com.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

9

Bytheway, John. "A History of "Especially For Youth" - 1976-1986." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2003. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4577.

Full text

Abstract:

The summer of 2002 marked the 26th anniversary of the youth camp “Especially for Youth” (EFY). Over 34,000 teenagers from across the United States, Canada and several foreign countries gathered on thirty-one different college campuses to attend one of the sixty-four sessions of the five-day program. Since the first session in 1976, Especially for Youth has enjoyed steady increases in attendance and popularity. Beginning in the early 1980s, the program's success reached the point that applicants were turned away because there was not enough space to house all those who wanted to attend.EFY is sponsored by Brigham Young University (BYU) Division of Continuing Education. Programs within the Division with a religious emphasis fall under the direction of the Church Educational System (CES).This thesis is an attempt to gather basic, historically significant information about the first eleven years of Especially for Youth (1976-1986). Primary sources include Continuing Education administrators, former counselors and participants, and Division of Continuing Education Annual Reports.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

10

Sipprell, Gene R. "A mentoring program for the Christian spiritual formation of youth at Friedens "County-Line" United Church of Christ and The Church of Peace, Glencoe, Minnesota." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

11

Balli, Tyler A. "Reading in Zion: Book Cultures of Mormon Youth, 1869–1890." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/99158.

Full text

Abstract:

This thesis examines the feelings of generational anxiety in the Mormon community from 1869 to 1890 and how those feelings intersected with ideas about reading. During this time, older members of the Mormon community in Utah Territory feared how changes in and threats to Mormon society might negatively affect young people's beliefs, abilities, knowledge, and adherence to their parents' religion. Older Mormons recognized a potential ally and enemy in books, newspapers, and other reading materials, which they believed could dramatically shape young people for good or for ill depending on the quality of the material. This thesis argues these older Mormons borrowed many elements from other US literary cultures and repurposed them for distinctly Mormon ends, including achieving theosis (chapter 1), navigating changing dynamics in Mormon families (chapter 2), and building their utopic society, Zion (chapter 3). This research adds to the work of those scholars who have combined the history of Mormonism with book history. It incorporates the voices of everyday Mormons to bring into focus the entire ecosystem of reading for young Mormons by focusing not only on fiction but also on biography, scripture, "Church works," history, and other genres. It examines not only discourse but also institutionalized programs and actions, such as the 1888 MIA Course of Reading (chapter 4), that shaped Mormons' world of reading. Such an examination begins to sharpen our understanding of the relationship of print and religion in America and what reading meant to Mormons.
Master of Arts
The years from 1869 to 1890 constituted a time of change and worry for the Mormon community in Utah Territory. The completion of the transcontinental railroad and the federal government's increasingly vehement attacks on Mormon polygamy, among other factors, led to worries among older Mormons about the future of their community. They particularly worried about the commitment of the upcoming generation of Mormons, who had not converted to the faith but had just been born into it. This thesis examines how those feelings of worry intersected with ideas about reading. Older Mormons recognized a potential ally in reading materials that could help young people become believing, productive members who would help ensure the future of their community. This thesis argues these older Mormons borrowed many elements from other US literary cultures and repurposed them for distinctly Mormon ends, including achieving theosis (chapter 1), navigating changing dynamics in Mormon families (chapter 2), and building their utopic society, Zion (chapter 3). It examines not only the rhetoric surrounding "good" or "bad" reading but also the institutionalized programs and actions, such as the 1888 MIA Course of Reading (chapter 4), that shaped Mormons' world of reading. Such an examination begins to sharpen our understanding of the relationship of print and religion in America and what reading meant to Mormons.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

12

Borre, Alicia. "ADJUSTMENT PROFILES AMONG YOUTH IN DIVERSE CULTURAL CONTEXTS: INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY, AND CONTEXTUAL INFLUENCES." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4656.

Full text

Abstract:

Recent literature has noted that not all youth who experience adverse circumstances (e.g. poverty, exposure to violence, maltreatment) end up displaying expected unfavorable outcomes (e.g. academic failure, depression, drug dependence); in fact, some youth display “resilience,” broadly understood as adaptive functioning in the face of adversity (Luthar, Cicchetti, & Becker, 2000). Overall, research on resilience has offered a new approach to the study of at-risk populations, emphasizing the study of strengths, processes, and mechanisms among individuals and communities that may favor positive adaptation, rather than emphasizing deficits among those experiencing adversity (Schoon, 2012). Although resilience research has come a long way, the importance of cultural processes in resilience only recently has been considered, there is still a dearth of studies among diverse contexts and cultural groups (Betancourt et al., 2011), and there is a lack of prospective analyses examining the stability of resilience over time (O’Dougherty et al., 2015). The present study examined the existence of profiles of adjustment among youth who had experienced some kind of adversity in three contexts: (1) Medellin, Colombia (n = 967); (2) Guatemala (n = 2.470); and (3) Chicago, USA (n=491), as well as protective factors associated with profile classification. Furthermore, the continuity of profiles over time was examined in the Chicago sample. Results showed that for each context, diverse profiles of adjustment emerge in the presence of adversity. For all contexts some youth were classified as either resilient (defined as scoring 1 SD above or below the mean on selected indicators) or as holding steady (scoring above the mean but less than 1 SD). Profiles exhibiting high levels of internalizing symptoms, externalizing problems, or problems across domains also were identified across contexts. Protective factors at the individual (e.g. sex, intelligence, prosocial behavior) and at the contextual (e.g. family cohesion, prosocial peers, positive relationship with teacher) levels proved relevant for profile classification, with some factors being relevant in one context but not in another. Prospective analyses revealed both continuity and discontinuity in profile classification among youth in Chicago, with some youth remaining classified in the same group across time points, whereas others transitioned between groups. These results highlight the importance of studying resilience in context, given that what constitutes a salient protective factor for some youth may not be relevant for others. Moreover, these results show that as youth negotiate developmental tasks within their ecologies, there is potential for both continuity and discontinuity in resilience processes. The results can inform prevention and intervention efforts aiming to work from a strength based approach.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

13

Van, Rooyen Garth. "Understanding resilience among non-government organisations in post-apartheid South Africa: a case study of Youth For Christ Cape Town." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4985.

Full text

Abstract:

Magister Administrationis - MAdmin
Many Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in South Africa are currently under pressure or threat of closure. Although there have been advances in civil society-state relations after the transition from apartheid to democracy, there has also been a steady decline in the number of CSOs in South Africa since 1994. The reasons for this decline are complex and varied. Given the value CSOs make in contributing to a lively democracy, it is important to explore the factors which enhance or undermine resilience in such organisations. This study focuses on understanding resilience among Non-government organisations (as an example of a CSO) in post-apartheid South Africa using Youth For Christ Cape Town as a case study. The site for this study was chosen as YFC Cape Town is arguably one of South Africa's oldest NGOs being formed in 1948. This study aims to, therefore, establish how CSOs in South Africa can ensure resilience and longevity in a complex and evolving political environment by drawing lessons from the selected case study. The elements which have emerged as being important to resilience are (1) Funding; (2) Technical skills; (3) Accessing networks; (4) Adaptation; (5) Core values; (6) Innovation; (7) Leadership. The study found that these factors should not be viewed as isolated elements but rather be seen as integrated developmental framework for ensuring resilience. Another key finding is located around organisational identity. Although adaptation in terms of how the organisation functions are necessary to navigate shifts in the environment, the identity of the organisation should remain the same. Organisations who change their identity amidst shocks and changes within the system are not very resilient while those who don't are.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

14

Cummings, Ronald Gregory. "A strategy for increasing the participation of young adults in the Kerrville Church of Christ." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2000. http://www.tren.com.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

15

Nold, Charlotte R. "The development of a ministry with the deaf alcoholic at St. John United Church of Christ an interpretation of the Kingdom of God /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

16

Chung, Sang-Kyun. "Developing a marriage enrichment seminar for those who have marital conflicts related to neo-Confucian values of husband and wife in the Samil United Church of Christ, Chicago, Illinois." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2002. http://www.tren.com.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

17

Boyce, Bradley G. "Understanding Learner Interactions in the Home-Study and Technology-Mediated Seminary Program for Youth in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3023.

Full text

Abstract:

Interaction is a core element in the design of blended and distance learning environments. The importance of understanding these interactions and what might increase effectiveness of such interactions in education is paramount for meaningful learning. This dissertation consists of two qualitative case studies designed to provide a rich, descriptive look at interactions in a high school distance/blended-learning context in the home-study and technology-meditated seminary program of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In the study article, Moore's (1989) interaction framework was used as a lens for understanding the learner experience. Thematic narratives were used to highlight themes related to students' perceived learning gains from learner-content interaction and their hesitancy to engage in learner-learner and learner-instructor interactions if they had not met personally. In the second study, Garrison's (2007) Community of Inquiry framework was used to understand the impact that teacher decisions, other than the selection of content, had on the cognitive and social climate of the learning experience. This study describes how a teacher's facilitation of social interaction influences the course learning outcomes. The results highlight the teacher's role in providing the educational and social climate needed to foster learner interactions. This study noted that when the teachers gave learners the opportunity to interact in a live setting, it appeared to foster the relationships needed to interact online. The narratives also highlight how a teacher helped learners interact with one another around content online.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

18

Büttner, Gerhard. ""Jesus hilft!" : Untersuchungen zur Christologie von Schülerinnen und Schülern /." Stuttgart : Calwer Verlag, 2002. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=009779203&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

19

Thomas, Amber Robin. ""God has a plan for your life" : Personalized Life Providence (PLP) in postwar American evangelicalism." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/33208.

Full text

Abstract:

Based largely upon popular periodicals, archival materials, conference addresses, and mass-market books, this thesis combines intellectual and cultural history to explore how the meaning behind the evangelical commonplace, "God has a plan for your life," changed in post-World War II America, ultimately exchanging an ethos of self-denial for self-fulfillment by the early 1980s. The term "Personalized Life Providence" (PLP) is proposed for the integration of three Reformation-rooted ideas-vocation, providence, and discernment-into the discussion of finding God's plan for one's life. Chapter one sketches the Anglo- American development of these concepts from the Puritan era to the early twentieth century, as they intersected with Common Sense philosophy, "Higher Life" teaching, the student-missionary movement, and inter-war fundamentalism. Chapter two begins the analysis of PLP's dissemination throughout Chicago-centered evangelical student-parachurch organizations in the 1940s. InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and Youth for Christ conflated PLP with personal holiness and, after the war, a resurgent American foreign-missionary movement, as displayed particularly in the texts of IVCF's Urbana conferences. Chapter three focuses on Henrietta Mears, Christian Education Director of First Presbyterian Church in Hollywood, California. Mears's Sunday-School publications and college ministry reveal PLP's embrace of irenic neo-evangelicalism in the 1950s, coupled with a revised discernment process. Chapter four identifies the emergence of the "gospel of God's plan" from Mears's protégés, specifically Campus Crusade for Christ founder Bill Bright, Presbyterian minister Richard Halverson, and evangelist Billy Graham. Epitomized by the phrase, "God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life," the first of Bright's Four Spiritual Laws, this gospel resonated with the religious revival, anti-Communist rhetoric, and psychological emphasis on self-actualization pervading American culture from 1947 to 1965. Chapter five argues that anti-Western sentiments in the1960s eroded PLP's evocation of missionary sacrifice in neo-evangelical circles. YFC encouraged teenagers to pursue culturally influential professions rather than traditional evangelism, while IVCF promulgated inconsistent teaching on discerning a foreign-missionary call in revolutionary times. Chapter six explores PLP's relationship to the widespread cultural shift toward self-fulfillment in the 1970s, as reflected both in evolving teaching on women's roles, career choice, and missionary service, and in PLP books styled after mass-market, self-help literature.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

20

Debernardi, Lea. "Il fons pietatis e la fontana di giovinezza : iconografia religiosa e temi profani fra tardo Medioevo e prima Età moderna." Thesis, Université Paris sciences et lettres, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020UPSLP050.

Full text

Abstract:

L’allégorie du fons pietatis, représentant une fontaine qui recueille le sang du Christ, apparaît dans l’art allemand, français et flamand vers le milieu du XVe siècle. Bien que plusieurs fois examinés par les historiens de l’art, l’origine et le développement de cette image continuent de susciter plusieurs questions. La ressemblance des représentations du fons pietatis avec celles de la fontaine de jouvence, thème considéré comme appartenant au domaine exclusif de l’art profane, interroge notamment les spécialistes. Afin d’éclairer les rapports entre ces deux images, l’analyse proposée dans ce travail croise l’histoire du fons pietatis avec celle de la fontaine de jouvence, en examinant l’usage et l’évolution de ces deux thèmes dans l’art et la littérature de la fin du Moyen Âge et du début de l’époque moderne. Il est ainsi possible de préciser la place de la fontaine de jouvence dans le réseau de références visuelles et littéraires qui ont marqué le développement de l’iconographie du fons pietatis. L’étude de ces images permet aussi de réfléchir sur les processus de création de nouvelles allégories religieuses apparues à la fin du Moyen Âge, aussi bien que sur l’évolution des catégories d’« art sacré » et d’« art profane »
Around the middle of the 15th century, an allegorical image known as the Fons Pietatis, representing a fountain filled by the blood of Christ, appeared in German, French and Flemish art. Despite having been repeatedly scrutinized by art historians, the origin and the development of this iconography still remain somewhat unclear. Scholars have been particularly puzzled by the close resemblance between representations of the Fons Pietatis and of the Fountain of Youth, an iconographical theme usually ascribed to the realm of secular art. In order to shed light on the relationship between these images, my thesis jointly examines the history of the Fons Pietatis and that of the Fountain of Youth, reconstructing the usage and the evolution of both these themes in late medieval and early modern art and literature. My aim, through this approach, is to achieve a better understanding of the place occupied by the Fountain of Youth in the network of visual and textual references that shaped the iconography of the Fons Pietatis. At the same time, my study offers an insight into the processes that guided the creation of late medieval religious allegories, as well as into the changing definitions of “sacred” and “secular art”

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

21

Branden, Teresa J. "Neighborhood influences on adolescent delinquency a descriptive study of Chicago youth /." 2001. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/48160192.html.

Full text

Abstract:

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2001.
Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 115-125).

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

22

Heflin, Houston Derrick Jay. "An analysis of internship experiences in the education of youth ministers in Churches of Christ." 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10392/302.

Full text

Abstract:

This dissertation examines the influence of youth ministry internships as a component of education for full time youth ministry. The need for evaluation of ministry internships is elucidated within a discussion of the current state of theological field education. The precedent literature relevant to theological field education is then discussed. This includes biblical discipleship, experiential learning theory, internships in higher education, and internships in youth ministry. The literature points to five basic objectives of internships that are used to guide the evaluation of learning from field experience. These are the expansion and assimilation of knowledge, the acquisition of skills, the formation of character, the development of mentor relationships, and the opportunity to test vocational interests in order to make a vocational decision. Purposive sampling was employed in this descriptive, quantitative research to reach the largest segment of the research population. The population consisted of junior and senior youth ministry majors in the seven largest universities associated with Churches of Christ who offer a bachelor's degree in youth ministry. Information was collected from these students concerning their internships through a survey instrument. Results indicated students perceive internships to be a vital component of their education for ministry. Interns ranked learning new skills in ministry, followed by growing in Christian character, and learning new knowledge about ministry as the most important contributions of their internships. Although interns ranked the influence of the supervisor relationship as fourth among significant contributions of internships, the supervisor relationship permeated every other aspect of internships. When supervisors were intentional about offering training and support in ministry, and when they practiced the spiritual disciplines with interns, their interns were more likely to say they experienced both educational and spiritual growth. The practice of journaling and theological reflection also emerged as influential disciplines of interns. The influence of internships on the vocational decisions of students to enter or avoid ministry was minimal. Applications for ministry education are proposed as they apply to professors, supervisors, and interns. These are followed by suggestions for future research in the area of theological field experience.
This item is only available to students and faculty of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. If you are not associated with SBTS, this dissertation may be purchased from http://disexpress.umi.com/dxweb or downloaded through ProQuest's Dissertation and Theses database if your institution subscribes to that service.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

23

Carthew, Michael. "Spiritual, moral and social development as the outcomes of a program for youth." 2008. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au/local/adt/public/adt-SFU20081022.143905/index.html.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

24

Apostolides, Anastasia. "Kids seeking alternative identity and spirituality through the lived theology glimpsed in the Harry Potter series." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/44336.

Full text

Abstract:

The Harry Potter series has been part of many kids’ socio-cultural context since 1997, and is a phenomenon that has had a huge impact on them (many of whom are now adults). It is argued that some kids’ identities and spiritualties may have been directly shaped, and may continue to be directly shaped, by the alternative sacred story presented by Rowling. As this has the Christ discourse woven into its narrative, there are kids who are using the Gospel values on a daily basis, whether they are aware of it or not. Rowling’s fantasy asks readers to question the impact that the dominant discourses of their ‘realities’ may be having on their identities and spiritualities, putting them in a position to question if that is indeed who they want to be. This study was motivated by how kids, who live in a Western society where one of the sacred stories is power/materialism/consumerism, can not only appreciate, but also live out (in lived theology) values of the Harry Potter series which are in complete opposition to the Western sacred story of power/consumerism/materialism. Since the consumerist discourse places a heavy burden on people to keep up with their socio-world, if they do not live up to these demands they will simply not ‘fit in’. People, especially kids, do not want to be perceived as outcasts. Practical theology seeks to react to, and understand the shifts that have a direct implication on how people’s lives are lived out and affected daily, in response to their socio-cultural world. One such shift is how people are now seeking ultimate answers from alternative sources such as for example literature, and specifically in this thesis, the Harry Potter series. Therefore, when a fantasy, such as Harry Potter, is published, it is important to question what kind of transformational and even transcendental impact it may be having on them. This is also an important question from a lived theology perspective as the Harry Potter series is lived religion. Lived theology seeks to understand how people practice and apply the sacred outside the Church and the four Gospels, while still using the Gospel message to live out their life on some level every day. These values include people’s practices, their actions towards others within their socio-cultural context and their personal sacred experiences that may allow them to transcend the way in which materialism affects their identity and spirituality. Lived theology seeks to understand how these values may affect practical theology. While some people no longer feel comfortable with/drawn to the Church, and feel alienated from the Gospels that were written for a socio-cultural context that is very different from Western society today, this does not mean that human beings are no longer spiritual/religious/Christian. They continue to seek for answers to the ultimate question at different stages of their lives.
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
gm2015
Practical Theology
PhD
Unrestricted

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

25

Robitaille, Charles. "La presse écrite et les représentations des personnes en situation de marginalité." Thèse, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/20373.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Chicago Youth for Christ'

Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles