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To Mend the World

A New Vision for Youth Ministry
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Increasingly, social entrepreneurship-- the disruption of the status quo for the purpose of creating new solutions to social issues--provides an important catalyst for cultural and social change. To Mend the World: A New Vision for Youth Ministry brings together practical theology, Christian ministry, and social entrepreneurship for a new approach to work with young people. This interdisciplinary conversation begins with a simple premise: the old models of ministry are no longer working. Young people and emergent adults are shaped more by the dominant culture than the practices of the Christian community. Churches frantically create ministry programs to address this reality, but these attempts either run parallel to the dominant cultural narratives or are co-opted and undermined by them. To Mend the World, written by a practical theologian and a practitioner, draws on the principles and practices of social entrepreneurship to provide ministry leaders with a thoughtful, robust theological perspective along with practical insights for youth ministry today and tomorrow.
Jason Lief is associate professor of practical theology at Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa. He's the author or coauthor of Jesus Loves You and Evolution is True: Why Youth Ministry Needs Science Poetic Youth Ministry and Christianity and Heavy Metal as Impure Sacred Within the Secular West: Transgressing the Sacred. Kurt Rietema is the senior director of YF Neighborhood at Youthfront in Kansas City, Kansas, where he lives and works in a diverse, under-resourced neighborhood. His work includes ImagineX--a youth social entrepreneurship program, short-term missions, community development, and just housing and lending partnerships for immigrants. Kurt is an adjunct at MidAmerica Nazarene University and at William Jewell College, where he teaches courses in social justice.
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