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Jeremy del Rio, of the New York City coalition of urban youth workers, speaks at the 2007 NY Pastors' Prayer Summit on the culture of digital media and the challenges facing today's youth.

Jeremy Del Rio, at the 2007 NY Pastors' Prayer Summit, gets more specific about the kinds of conversations which youth, including Christian youth, have on social networking sites such as Myspace and Facebook. In his view, though the ways in which youth struggle with the challenges of puberty are much more public now, this very openness of our culture creates new opportunities for youth ministry.

Jeremy Del Rio answers questions from the audience at the 2007 NY Pastors' Prayer Summit about how pastors and youth workers can effectively reach today's wired youth.

Jeremy Del Rio speaks at the Urban Youth Workers conference on the challenges facing our youth and those who work with them in the age of blogging and MySpace. Covers much of the same material as his Mooks, Midriffs, Myspace, and More lecture, though with more specific examples from his own work with youth.

Jeremy Del Rio speaks at the Living Hope Strategic Planning Weekend 2006 on leadership, vision, and leading strategically.

A sermon preached by Jeremy Del Rio at Living Hope Community Church in 2006 on living with a vision.

We serve a generation desperate for authenticity, desperate to move beyond the rhetoric of cliché Christianity to something meaningful, transformative, and real. Christ’s model of revolutionary ministry was to concentrate His activity in a small number of authentic relationships. By modern standards, the immediate results of that strategy were mediocre at best and a failure at worst. Yet His influence over twelve disciples split history in two and changed the world forever. How did He do it? Are His methods applicable today?

Jeremy Del Rio gives a brief message encouraging those involved in ministry to take risks, drawing upon the experience of the Israelites in the wilderness.

In the last thirty years hip hop has revolutionized pop culture while evangelical Christianity has created an insular subculture. How have self-proclaimed “controversies” like Eminem and “hard-knock” lifers like Jay-Z sold millions of records to suburban kids all across America? Fundamentally, it’s because Jay-Z and his counterparts have become better fishers of men than we are. They identify with kids’ pain and address their needs in language they understand and in a forum they frequent. The question for the Church is no longer whether to engage, but how to do so effectively.

Jeremy Del Rio gives a message on God's regenerating power in our lives.

Jeremy Del Rio gives the keynote at TechMission 2005, describing the challenges and opportunities which computers and new communications technology afford us, in light of the Scriptures. Not since the time of Babel has there been a common language like the language of digital communications is for us.

Jeremy Del Rio gives a brief interview with a New York City radio station on how he got into youth ministry and what God has laid on his heart regarding today's youth.

Corporate profiteers produce and market media for a target youth audience they call mooks and midriffs, "caricatures that exploit adolescent insecurities and hormones," a strategy described as, "grabbing below the belt and reaching for their wallets." The result: average teens now consume digital media for 72 hours each week and increasingly digest that media online in what the New York Times calls, "Websites Without Rules."

In communities blighted by absent fathers, incarceration, underperforming school districts, drugs, and other social ills, how can youth ministries and CCD agencies come alongside individual youths to equip and empower them for leadership?  Is developing indigenous leaders even worth the heartache and effort?  Examine the myths, methods, and messages of effective mentorship.

by Jeremy Del Rio
Talk presented Fri, May 20, 2005 Urban Youth Workers Institute Conference 2005.

Jeremy co-founded the Ground Zero Clergy Task Force/Northeast Clergy Group following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. He will challenge you to walk youth toward a place of HOPE out of the tragedy of their daily lives by empowering them to live out their dreams and transform their communities.

Emerging leaders need mentors and spiritual disciple-makers to invest in their lives like Moses invested in Joshua. As much benefit as he received from his mentor, Joshua
failed to reproduce the investment, and his spiritual legacy did not survive. As indigenous leaders emerge around you, will they find a Moses or will they find a Joshua?
 

Move the debate beyond non-denominational
prayers and private school vouchers. Explore
ways to engage public education reform
one school at a time. Equip your students
to become the men and women God made
them to be. Dare we expect that test scores
might improve and the trillions currently spent
on public education be managed better?

Corporate profiteers produce and market
media for a target youth audience they
call mooks and midriffs -- caricatures that
exploit adolescent insecurities and hormones
-- a strategy described as “grabbing below
the belt and reaching for their wallets”.
The result: average teens now consume
digital media for 72 hours each week and
increasingly digest media online in what the
New York Times calls, “Websites Without
Rules.” This workshop will equip you to
respond to this reality.

Called, but underfunded. Impassioned, and hungry for more. Broke, and feeling alone. How do bi-vocational youth workers pay the bills and buy the stuff necessary to get the job done? Jesus received one recorded offering in his career. The disciples didn't get it. The masses were confused. But a boy with a bagged lunch understood, and his tuna fish sandwich fed 5,000. A husband's debts nearly cost a widow her son’s freedom. The prophet's response: “What's in your hand?” A few drops of oil and a town full of jars later, she bought their freedom. Let's explore how to turn tuna fish and empty bottles into resources for urban ministry.

Corporate profiteers produce and market
media for a target youth audience they
call mooks and midriffs -- caricatures that
exploit adolescent insecurities and hormones
-- a strategy described as “grabbing below
the belt and reaching for their wallets”.
The result: average teens now consume
digital media for 72 hours each week and
increasingly digest media online in what the
New York Times calls, “Websites Without
Rules.” This workshop will equip you to
respond to this reality.