EquipU
Youth Ministry Training
What is EquipU?
At Asbury we want to help your church take the next step in its faithfulness and effectiveness.
EquipU is ministry training that will give you and your church leaders hands-on help with your church or ministry group to begin to take action steps right now to improve your ministry leadership. These customizable workshops will give you tools to start making effective changes in our rapidly transforming world to best understand, reach, serve, and love people in your context. EquipU can help pastors, church leaders, student leaders, youth ministry volunteers, or youth ministry professionals adapt their ministry to the changing world.
There are two categories of EquipU training:
- Church Discipleship Training
- Youth Ministry Training
EquipU Church Discipleship Training will give you hands-on help with your church to begin to take action steps today to improve your ministry leadership. These customizable workshops will give you tools to start making effective changes in our rapidly transforming world to best understand, reach, serve, and love people in your context. EquipU can help pastors, church leadership teams, church volunteers, and church boards adapt your ministry to the changing world and prioritize ministry to the Next Generation.
EquipU Youth Ministry Training will give you hands-on help with your group to begin to take action steps today to improve your ministry leadership. These customizable workshops will give you tools to start making effective changes in our rapidly transforming world to best understand, reach, serve, and love young people in your context. EquipU can help student leaders, youth ministry volunteers, or youth ministry professionals adapt ministry to the changing world.
EquipU Workshops
Workshops can be designed for:
- Pastors and church ministry leaders
- Church leadership teams (church board, leadership team, etc.)
- Youth pastors and youth volunteer leaders
- Student leadership teams (high school students)
Workshop Topics:
- How to Give Ministry Away
- Mentoring Youth: Spiritual Fathers and Mothers Needed
- Creating Life-Long Disciples
- Whose Your Neighbor? Identifying and Listening To Your Context
- Ministry to Gen Z: Who Are They and What Do They Value?
- Ministry and Parents Post-Shutdown
- Becoming Leaders: Following God’s Call (*for students)
If you have a specific topic or theme for your event, please contact us for a conversation.
“I have been a youth pastor for 40 years. I cannot think of a more insightful hour and a half then our time with Brian. Everyone there was blessed, felt encouraged, but also had some concrete tools to leave with. I would recommend this to anyone who wants their student ministry to be effective and RELEVANT.”
EquipU Trainers
Brian Hull is the Gardner Scholar and Professor of Pastoral and Christian Ministries at Asbury University, Founder of the Youth Becoming Leaders High School Christian Leadership Institute, and Director of the Forged: Youth Ministry Coaching Program. He has his Ph.D. in Intercultural Studies from Asbury Theological Seminary. Serving in church ministry for more than 30 years, including work at the local church and denominational levels, Brian continues to preach, present and write about the church, culture, and youth ministry. He recently co-authored the book, Youth Ministry As Mission: A Conversation About Theology and Culture, with Patrick Mays. Brian is married to Carol and they have four children.
Caleigh Smith is the new Director of Youth Becoming Leaders and a Lecturing Professor in the Christian Studies and Philosophy Department at Asbury University. Caleigh received a BA in Youth Ministry from Asbury University and an MA in Youth Ministry from Austin Seminary. She is a Michigander at heart and has been pursuing God’s call to youth ministry since middle school. Caleigh is passionate about training both staff and volunteers in the field of youth ministry.
Rob Bergman is the Executive Pastor at First Church of God in Columbia City, Ind. He has served in ministry for more than twenty years in large and small churches. For the bulk of his time as a pastor he has worked in youth ministry where he is impassioned by seeing students experience the love and grace of Jesus in their lives. Rob has been married to his wife Rachel for 22 years and they have two teenage children.
About EquipU
EquipU is a ministry training program out of Asbury University’s Youth Becoming Leaders Institute (YBL). The purpose of YBL is to help young people take the next step in their Christian leadership in the church and in the world. We believe that this call takes all of us to accomplish – the local church, adult leaders and mentors, the University, and high school students. EquipU wants to help churches and ministries see, value, and empower young people into Christian leadership in their own context. Follow these links for more information on Asbury University (http://www.asbury.edu/about/) and Youth Becoming Leaders (http://asbury.edu/ybl).
Contact
For more information, call (859) 858-5393 or email ybl@asbury.edu.