{"id":2412,"date":"2011-09-19T09:30:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T14:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ywupdate\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2011-09-19T09:31:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T14:31:54","slug":"ymn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ywupdate\/2011\/09\/19\/ymn\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Ministry Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, maybe some of you follow PostSecret (an ongoing community art project where people mail<br \/>\nin their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard) and their Sunday Secrets. Now, if it is new to you, I don&#8217;t want you to go there and be shocked by some of the confessions people are mailing in. They are real, desperate, exciting, intriguing, touching, quite candid and revealing. I can&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>One <a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-HzSj-sqZl_c\/TnVL5I7TuAI\/AAAAAAAAP8c\/F7C7MUkNB3U\/s1600\/youthpastor.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[2412]\" target=\"_blank\">postcard<\/a> that sticks out from yesterday&#8217;s posting states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My youth group is one of the things that keeps me from killing myself. I&#8217;m the youth pastor&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I just want to take a moment to remind you of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2011\/05\/Youth-Ministry-Network-Roles-and-Responsibilities.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Youth Ministry Network<\/a>.\u00a0It exists with each youth worker of the ECC in mind! We want to promote healthy youth ministry in the Evangelical Covenant Church by helping youth workers to be known, connected, and resourced.<\/p>\n<p>Please, let us know what we can be doing to walk alongside you in your ministry setting(s). 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