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March 10, 2009

Www.ConversantLife.com is a new community that serves “a growing audience that is young, literate, educated, committed and informed on matters of faith culture.”

You can download “Undiscovered Sampler Vol. 1” at www.undiscoveredsampler.com to hear some of the independent and unsigned artists that are partnering with www.ConversantLife.com.

Do you follow the seasons of the Christian calendar, either on your own or with your kids? Then you may want to check out these new resources:

1) The Institute for the Study of Asian-American Christianity is offering a free download of: Road of Suffering, Road to Glory: A Lenten Adventure with the Savior, edited by Johnson Chiu, Director of ISAAC’s Equipping and Resource Center. You can download it for free, or pay to order a print copy here.

2) Meanwhile, the people at Proost, a UK-based creator of resources for youth and young leaders have a ton of seasonal and non-seasonal material available for purchase or available as part of their subscription program. Visit the Proost Web site for info, and look for a complete review of Proost materials in the May/June issue of YouthWorker Journal.

ONE, a global advocacy organization, wants ministers to address such issues as poverty, hunger and global disease from their pulpits, so is creating a forum to encourage them to do so.

The ONE Sermon Challenge, which runs now through April 15, is asking pastors to send issues-oriented sermons to one.org/onesabbath/sermonchallenge/, where they’ll be collected and displayed online. Sermons can be submitted in video, audio and written form; pastors who submit a sermon featured on the site will receive a ONE Sabbath “action pack” (which includes ONE T-shirts, wristbands and advocacy materials) for their congregation. Pastors who submit a video of their sermon also receive a copy of the book, On the Move, written by U2 frontman (and ONE co-founder) Bono.

“The ONE Sermon Challenge invites faith leaders to raise their voices and put forth their best sermon showing why all of us must do our part to help end senseless poverty and deaths from treatable disease,” says Mark Brinkmoeller, national coordinator of ONE Sabbath. “While its topic and purpose couldn’t be more important, the ONE Sermon Challenge is meant to be a fun, engaging and uplifting way to raise awareness and incite action on these vital issues.

“Faith communities and individual believers are already central advocates on these issues, and they have been for decades,” Brinkmoeller adds. “This effort aims to promote and encourage the good work that continues to be done by countless houses of worship across America.”

If you can’t get enough of Bono and U2, you may want to travel to New York City in May for “U2: The Hype and the Feedback,” a conference for academics, obsessives and fans, hosted by Cedarville University, a Baptist college in Ohio. A stellar list of writers and speakers will be on hand. For more information, click here.

In each issue of the eJournal we give you a review of a recent resource, book, DVD or CD. This time we’re giving you the whole TOOLS section from our March/April issue.

Simply click on the link and thumb through the whole TOOLS section (or the entire digital issue).

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Thanks for joining us for this issue of the YouthWorker eJournal. See you next time.

Sincerely, Steve Rabey, YouthWorker Journal editor, and our entire crew