When my first child was about to be born, I freaked out. It was the ninth month. I was 33. I was in the bathroom and thought, I don't know how to father her. What am I going to do? I grew up without...

Urban youth workers must have faith. “The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it,” Paul wrote in 1 Thessalonians 5:24. God loves our young people more than we do.I extend this word of encou...

In my first column for YouthWorker Journal, I want to talk about some of the basic goals we seek with the men and women we serve in the urban context. This takes me to my son Samuel.Samuel is too young for heav...

For 15 years I’ve lived one block from the Harambee Center in Pasadena, Calif., where we do long-term youth ministry discipleship among urban children.Lots of people come and go in the hood: government pr...