Youthworks Ministry Support training for your church
Youthworks Ministry Support offer a number of training options to equip and encourage those involved in ministry to youth and children.
There are a range of topics available in the areas of children’s ministry, youth ministry, family and intergenerational ministry as well as a variety of ways to access this training.
Our training options
Local Training / Book an advisor to run training for your leaders.
Network training / Bring your leaders to a training day with other churches in your local area network.
Training Ministry Teams / Subscribe to access children’s ministry training modules and train your children’s ministry leaders at your own pace.
Coaching / 1:1 coaching is intended for recent graduates whose role is predominately in youth and/or children’s ministry, and is designed to grow the capacity, skills and wisdom of the candidate.
Consultancy / a comprehensive review of your church's youth and children’s ministry with the aim of developing and strengthening the ministry support structures and the capacity of key staff.
Local Training
Book a Youthworks advisor to come and run a training course to develop the youth and/or children’s ministry leaders in your church. You can choose to add a ministry observation to this and our advisors will come and observe the related ministry to provide specific feedback and tailor the training you choose for your leadership team.
Training courses can be chosen from the list of available courses we already have prepared, or you can request other training in negotiation with one of our advisors. Once you know what training course you want please complete a booking enquiry and one of our advisors will be in contact.
If you would like to discuss your further options please contact your regional advisor directly.
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0 – 2 hours / $220
2 – 4 hours / $300
Training Plus / $400
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0 – 2 hours / $290
2 – 4 hours / $500
Training Plus / $600
Network Training
Youthworks Ministry Support works with local area networks of churches to run Leader Training Days for youth &/or children’s ministry leaders. These run at various times and frequencies throughout the year depending on the requirements of those networks and to run relevant training for the leaders from those churches.
Contact your regional ministry advisor to be connected with a network near you and to be informed about upcoming training days. Confirmed Leader Training Day events will be available to book youthworks.iwannaticket.com.au.
Training Ministry Teams
Training Ministry Teams exists to see volunteer children’s ministry teams in churches serving with enthusiasm and growing in their effectiveness in their ministry to young people. We are serious about investing in and developing leadership teams in churches so that we see healthy leaders growing together as they reach and disciple young people.
Training Ministry Teams is an annual subscription which provides access to Youthworks' Children's Ministry training modules specifically produced for you to run with your ministry team.
Coaching
There is strong evidence that an effective youth and children’s ministry is an essential indicator of the spiritual health of the local church.
Youthworks is pleased to offer you the opportunity to grow this vital ministry with a coaching program for those on your staff team who are involved in specialist vocational ministry to youth, children and families.
Coaching provided by Youthworks Ministry Support Team (MST) provides the theological framework and practical skills needed to build a high quality, effective youth and children’s ministry. It also provides training and accountability so ministry workers can create a strategic plan, and then implement and evaluate it in order to continually improve their outcomes.
Over a 12-month period, a Youthworks advisor will work closely with the candidate on one or two focus areas of learning and development that are most relevant to effective youth and/or children’s ministry.
The Coaching Framework
During the 12-month engagement, the Youthworks advisor will:
Meet with the ministry worker 11 times across the year.
Coach the ministry worker through 1-2 focus areas of ministry/leadership.
Visit the ministry twice.
Attend the Launch meeting and Conclusion meeting with the senior minister and ministry worker.
Provide a progress report to the senior minister at 6 months and 12 months.
Price
This investment in your ministry worker is $2000.
Please not that Coaching may also be undertaken as a unit of study as part of a course at Youthworks College—either DE016 Children's Ministry Field Education or DE017 Youth Ministry Field Education. For information about unit fees and FEE-HELP see https://www.youthworkscollege.edu.au/fees