Here is information about the cumulative project. Participants can pick from a selection of potential projects and/or propose their own. Your project should combine something you learned in the sessions/readings and something specific in your context. Put those 2 things together through a project in in a way that's hopefully useful to your continued youth ministry where you are.

Project Examples

• Create some "plan B" sessions advisors can pull from their back pocket when youth capacity is low.
• Create a presentation to take to your board, or a pitch to take to the youth in your congregation, to start making that process real.
• Preparing middle school families to invest in high school youth ministry in the future.
• Curate aresource list of all the teen supports in your town.

How long should people spend on their project?

We are more concerned with your internal estimation of success and what's useful than we are for external measures of things. So the annoyingly vague, but true, answer is: whatever time you need to devote to it.
We recognize that's going to be balanced with the end of your church years and restoring yourself over the summer. We're open to a varying degree of how long you should spend with it. If you are involving other people in the project in some way, that's probably going to expand the amount of time you have to devote to the project.

How will these projects be used and evaluated?

You can submit your project as a work sample as part of your portfolio for credentialing. Otherwise, the evaluation is an internal evaluation.

You want to put the time into this process that gets you the results that you want to implement in your setting. We're hope that this project is used by you!

Stevie and Jennica may take ask if your project can be part of a larger reseeding of youth ministry at the association level.

What if you don't have a running youth group in your congregation?

Instead of the “build it, and they will come” kind of model, we're thinking, “go find where the energy is.”
What, in your congregation or context, do you need to work on to help support youth ministry?

How do you submit your project? When is due?

It's due August 31st through email to Stevie and Jennica.

We hope 8/31 is not the first time we get to see your projects! We invite and encourage you to send us the roughest of drafts if you want input or brainstorming, or just want to ask “am I headed in the right direction?”

We also encourage you to share your rough drafts with each other, because maybe there's some cross pollination that can happen before that final deadline.
After you submit it you’ll be asked to submit a final evaluation/assessment on how this Renaissance Module was for you. When you’ve submitted your evaluation, our administrator will send you a certificate that you have completed a Renaissance Module.

A Note About the Credentialing Program

This project might be supportive and helpful when you’re writing your packet for the RE Credentialing Program. Since you’re putting together course content areas and your own practical ministry, when you review it for your packet it will help awaken some of the learning that you've been having over the course of the spring.

If you have other questions email us, you know where to find us.