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#ymwomen

More than a distributor of

feminine hygiene items

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+You might be a #ymwomen if…

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+Share:

Fill in the blank

You know you might be a woman in youth

ministry if

_____________________________________

___.

+Resource:

Book: Help I’m a Woman in Youth Ministry

by Kara Powell

+I met Barbara @ Holy Trinity

Catholic Church

Wh

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+A girlfriend’s guide for #ymwomen

+Tip #1 Female Friends

+Tip #1 Female Friends

+#2 Tips for working with

guys in youth ministry

1. Figure out your boundaries

2. Figure out if his boundaries help or hinder communication

3. Figure out a healthy balance that works in your context and doesn’t create more problems than solutions.

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+sacredfriendshipgathering.com

Bring up the subject of

friendship between men and

women and you’ll find the

subject of boundaries is

close at hand.

+sacredfriendshipgathering.com

We have the best of intentions

and we want to do the right

thing. We build fences and

draw lines in order to protect

what we see as holy, sacred.

This is good, admirable - but

what if some of the boundaries

we create are actually keeping

us locked in?

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+In the trenches advice for

working w/men in YM

1. Make your role clear. Have a job

description.

2. Are you more than the “modesty

police” or the token female who can

handle crying girls and feminine

hygiene item distribution so he

doesn’t have to?

+In the trenches advice for

working w/men in YM

3. Ask male colleagues to introduce

you right away so no one thinks

you are the church secretary or

pastor’s wife.

Or introduce yourself!

+In the trenches advice for

working w/men in YM

Tip: Let your voice be

heard…not because you

represent a “women’s voice” or a

“parent’s voice” but because they

value YOUR voice.

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I’ve found that the most

subversive, liberating thing I

can do these days is to show

up to that pulpit, or that

conference, or that terrifying

blank page and speak with my

own voice—

+MORE Tips for working

with guys in ym

1. Realize…your problems with the “guys”

might be more personality issues than

gender issues.

2. Resource:

Enneagraminstitute

+Time to move on?

1. When you can’t be yourself…it might

be time to move on.

2. When you are working with unhealthy

levels of personality conflicts…it might

be time to move on

3. When your gifts are not being used.

+Tip #3 for being a #ymwomen

Figure out if you haven’t

already…your view of

women in church leadership.

#4 So how do I relate to the boys in

my youth ministry?

1. Boys have mom’s and sisters.

2. Boys might not have mom’s and sisters.

3. Jesus made a difference to men and women.

4. Youth ministry is no longer pastor centered.

5. Boys are human.

+Tip #5

How To Know if Youth Ministry is a

Calling or Opportunity

1) You know you are not worried

about being too old or irrelevant

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#ymwomen

More than a distributor of feminine hygiene items