Youth Leadership Initiative
The Youth Leadership Initiative exists to identify and assist in the development of EMC youth who exhibit leadership potential or who express a call to ministry.
The EMC Youth Initiative will fulfill its mission in the following ways:
1. Youth Leadership Initiative -– To identify and help develop youth who exhibit leadership potential.
- Provide special training or breakouts for participants at camps, retreats, and denominational events.
- Connect participating youth for encouragement and accountability.
- Invite youth to participate in decision-making for denominational youth priorities and for camps and other events.
- Encourage youth to serve in their local church and in a denominational capacity.
2. Next Gen Pastors Initiative – To identify youth who express a call to vocational ministry and encourage them in the pursuit of that call.
- Work with local pastors to confirm and foster the call to ministry.
- Work to connect youth with Conference Superintendents for communication, encouragement, and information.
- Network with the Haggard School of Ministry to provide training and/or enrollment in the Haggard School of Ministry.
- Encourage students enrolled in a local community college to dual enroll in Haggard School of Ministry.
- Work with approved Christian colleges to provide a presence at camps and denominational events and to also provide resources to prospective students.
Qualifications:
- The EMC Youth Leadership Initiative is open to any qualifying EMC youth.
- Youth participating in the EMC Youth Initiative must be recommended by a pastor, youth pastor, youth leader, Conference Superintendent, or BYCM Member.
- Youth must exhibit leadership potential.
- All youth wishing to participate in any program of the Youth Leadership Initiative must complete an online application.