Youth Studies

Are you looking for academic, practical and devotional equipping for ministry among youth?

BTC Southern Africa has what you're looking for!!!

The Youth courses at BTC Southern Africa have been designed in response to the current trend towards highly specialised ministry to children, teenagers and young adults. The studies are intended to produce suitably qualified youth pastors and youth workers who are equipped to reach youth with the Gospel and provide them with the opportunity and means to grow in Jesus Christ. Follow the hypertext headings to the eight semester courses in youth ministry that relate to the eight roles a youth pastor fulfils:

BYS 115 - Youth Ministry
This course will equip students with an understanding of contemporary society, youth culture, personality development, ministry principles, programming guidelines and approaches to organisational structure.

BYS 125 - Christian Leadership
This course will equip students with skills for personal spiritual growth and for effective leadership in youth ministry.

BYS 225 - Youth in Crisis
Young people are in crisis, and probably always have been. This course in Youth Studies will examine the life realities experienced by a cross-section of young people, from dying to enslaved to okay youth. Based on a pen-sketch consideration of a cross-section of young people, attention will be given to principles and practice of ministry to youth in crisis

BYS 315 - Building Youth
This course will equip students with a theoretical understanding of spiritual growth in youth and a practical understanding of facilitating spiritual growth in youth.

BYS 325 - Equipping The Youthworker
This course will equip students with skills to approach the vital area of equipping youth as part of the discipleship process and with strategies to equip youth to evangelise and minister among their peers.

BYS 415 - Youth Ministry in Age Group Context
While the term youth ministry is generally used to refer to ministry to young people, most people involved in youth ministry do not minister to the entire spectrum of persons referred to as youth: children, teenagers, young adults. While it is necessary to expose all learners to the nature and demands of ministry to all three main age group categories of young people, it is also necessary to allow learners to focus on one of these age groups. This course will require learners to pay general attention to ministry to all three age groups, and then to give specific attention to one of the age groups

BYS 425 - Youth Ministry in Social Context
One of the greatest challenges faced by young people (children, teenagers and young adults) is that presented by the realities of the social environment in which they live. The social context of young people cannot be ignored in the search for effective youth ministry, and this course requires the learner to select on aspect of social context and to reflect on youth ministry in the chosen context.