At the start of a new year of ministry, it’s easy to get caught up in, “What’s new in your ministry?” But the fundamentals of YM should excite us even more. This episode is all about Running it Back to why you want to do this in the first place!

Top 5 Fundamentals To Focus on At the Start of the Year

1. Seeing the Kids- (6:50)
2. Putting Yourselves in Parent’s Shoes-(17:00)
3. Being a Companion for First Year Leaders- (27:16)
4. Getting Ahead in Order to Be Present- (34:58)
5. Praying for Your Community- (42:45)

Links from the Show
iGen- Dr. Jean Twenge
Drawing from nationally representative surveys of 11 million young people as well as in-depth interviews, iGen is the first book to document the cultural changes shaping today’s teens and young adults, documenting how their changed world has impacted their attitudes, worldviews, and mental health.

From Christendom to Apostolic Mission: Pastoral Strategies for an Apostolic Age
Every human society possesses a moral and spiritual imaginative vision, a set of assumptions and ways of looking at things according to which life proceeds. This essay is an attempt to contribute effective strategies to engage our own time and culture once more with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and – for a weary world – to awaken the Catholic imaginative vision.