A missional youth ministry highly values understanding (contextualization) and serving the local community. In the youth ministry world, school campuses are the life and blood of where our students spend most of their time.

5 Ways to relate Christ to your local youth community—youth ministry contextualization.

Youth pastors become fearless when they don't give a rats butt about anything other than what God is telling them to do. God is love and fear is not in love.

The FYI (Fuller Youth Institute) self published a great resource for youth workers entitled: Deep Leadership. Deep Leadership is authored by: Kara Powell, Brad Griffin, and Chap Clark.

The beauty about contextual youth ministry is that the missional mind set and attitude that demands a missionary into a cross cultural setting; forces them to eat, drink, and talk like the natives, and love and serve them in Jesus' name.