Duffy Robbins, seminar presenter for Understanding Your Teenager, is a 24-year veteran of youth ministry.

A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a B.A. in Psychology, Duffy graduated magna cum laude with an M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. He currently serves as associate professor of youth ministry at Eastern College, St. Davids, Pennsylvania.

Duffy is popular speaker at youth retreats, conventions, conferences and major Christian music festivals like Creation, Cornerstone, ICHTHUS, and Blackstump (Sydney, Australia). His international ministry has ranged from youth conventions and training conferences in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, South Africa and all over North America to a national pastors’ conference in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and a lectureship at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

As an associate staff member of Youth Specialties, Duffy works throughout the year in training events for youth workers, appearing each spring in about 15 cities coast to coast as a part of the “CORE” and at the National Youth Workers Conventions each fall.

Ordained in the United Methodist Church, Duffy has been active within the denomination writing curriculum and speaking at numerous events for youth and youth workers. He is a regular contributor to Good News Magazine, a semi-monthly magazine committed to scriptural Christianity within the United Methodist Conference.

Duffy also has written curriculum for David C. Cook Publishing and Scripture Press, as well as numerous articles for Youthworker Journal, Good News, Campus Life, Group, and Youth Teacher and Counselor and various youth ministry publications in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia.

Duffy is the author of numerous books including Youth Ministry that Works (Victor), Ministry of Nurture (Zondervan/Youth Specialties), Youth Ministry Nuts and Bolts (Zondervan/Youth Specialties), Option Plays (Zondervan/Youth Specialties), and Going the Distance (Zondervan/Youth Specialties), Spontaneous Melodramas I and II (Zondervan/Youth Specialties), Memory Makers (Zondervan/Youth Specialties) and Everyday Object Lessons (Zondervan/Youth Specialties). His most recent book is a youth ministry textbook, This Way to Youth Ministry: An Introduction to the Adventure (Zondervan/Youth Specialties).

Duffy lives in Valley Forge, Penn., with wife Maggie. They have two daughters, Erin (now, Erin Lima) and Katie.