Last year, they went through Youth Ministry 3.0 and talked through implications for local youth ministries.

And then this year – they went through the book “Primal Teen” and invited MarkO to come guide our discussion.

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Here’s my idea.

Call it a “cohort.” Can be a group of peeps going through youth ministry together.

We could meet via tokbox or something monthly for a set amount of time.

If this sounds groovy to anyone, hit me up via email adam.j.lehman@gmail.com

Do you find it a bit ironic that Marko’s whole 3.0 manifesto basically concludes with: “I’m not sure exactly what 3.0 will look like”? So you’re asking to gather 3.0 youth pastors, which, by Marko’s definition, lack definition. So postmodern… actually I want to look beyond postmodern into the postpostmodern world. Lemme gather some postpostmodern youth pastors.

I’m just giving you a hard time.

Thanks for linking to me and including me in this list. I’m honoured… I think!

I’ve never really thought of myself as a “progressive youth pastor”, but rather a youth worker learning how to mentor and encourage young people to follow Jesus and become themselves.

Things are a bit different here in the UK, and my blog reflects my work with young people both inside and outside of church. I don’t just do youth ministry, but also community work, schools work and more generic youth work with government and statutory agencies. All this is part of my paid role at my church.

I’m really keen, as Dan says, to explore ideas with like-minded people, but I also really value outside opinion and input from those who’ve been in this game a long time (as Kevin has bluntly alluded to above).

So I’m not sure about a specific network or closed gathering (although that may be useful to some), or even defining who is or isn’t progressive. Rather, I’d love an ongoing conversation about how and why we can best teach young people to love Jesus.