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About YMtoday.com
YMtoday.com is devoted to serving volunteer and professional youth ministers by providing them with instant access to a myriad of free resources: from curriculum to mission trips, from wild-and-crazy games to experiential prayer practices, from dramas and talk outlines to technology and management tools. New resources are added weekly.
YMtoday.com also equips youth workers for ministry and feeds their spirit with articles from the leaders in youth ministry from across the country. This is a place for them to find free training, encouragement, and support — for themselves, volunteers, parents, and student leaders.
YMtoday.com is an initiative of the Center for Youth Ministry Training (CYMT) and the Lilly Foundation.
YMtoday.com funding comes from the Lilly Foundation, which is the world’s largest corporate contributor to religious causes. Lilly has funded a great deal of research in adolescent faith formation over the past decade, and providing free, bite-sized, user-friendly access to that information is why this site was created.
Contact YMtoday.com.
Mindi Godfrey is a veteran youth worker who's served in ministry for nearly 25 years. She's served as a full-time youth pastor at a mega-church, camp director, small group coach, missions trip leader, van driver, and of course, janitor. She volunteered as a small group leader for middle school girls at her church in La Mesa, CA. Mindi joined Youth Ministry Today as the Marketing Director after nine years with Youth Specialties. Mindi holds a Certificate in Spiritual Formation and is published in Campsight, Youthworker Journal, and Immerse Journal. Julia directs the editorial efforts for YMtoday.com and manages operations and events for the Center for Youth Ministry Training. She has an extensive background in marketing and editing in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors. Prior to joining YMtoday, she was a freelance marketing consultant. A native Tennessean, Julia, her husband Jonathan and their son Malone live in Nashville with their dog, Elwood; and they enjoy traveling, cooking, biking, and going to concerts. Or they enjoyed those things before having a baby. Now they enjoy sleeping. Betsy began working in youth ministry in 2001 where she served as a full time youth minister at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Mobile, Alabama. She is the youth minister at Christ Episcopal Church and has taught high school math and science. She is a Youth Ministry Architect consultant. Betsy lives in Charlotte, NC with her husband, Taylor, and their two little girls, Katie and Grace.
Dietrich "Deech" Kirk served as the youth minister of Brentwood United Methodist Church for six years before becoming the executive director of the Center for Youth Ministry Training in 2006. He continues to serve as one of Brentwood UMC's associate ministers. He is one of the co-authors of Now What? Next Steps in Your New Life with Christ. When he is not directing the CYMT and its ministries (like YMtoday.com), speaking at youth events, helping build new youth ministries, or training other youth workers, Deech enjoys spending time with his wife, Keeley, their daughters, Carlisle and Hallie, and their dog, Bear. And golfing.Meet the YMtoday staff
Mindi Godfrey - Marketing Director
Julia Canada Wilburn - Editorial Director
Betsy Zarzour - Ad Sales Director
Dietrich Kirk - Executive Director
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YMtoday is committed to connecting youth ministers to products and services offered to them that will provide them with better results than they could get trying it all on their own. We offer many for free online, but we also hope youth ministers will choose to pay for products and services that will magnify their efforts and free their time and energy to focus more on their relationships with God and kids.
So we see advertisers as more than just revenue-generators to help sustain our ministry to youth leaders — we also see them as partners who can provide youth leaders with the tools they need to be more effective in ministry.
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Phone: 615-823-7605 x 306
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Sunday • February 05 • 2012