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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 Living Hope Strategic Planning Weekend 2006 on leadership, vision, and leading strategically.

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?

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 & Rudy Carrasco facilitate a conversation on youth ministry and emergent church leadership.

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.

A panel of workers in urban ministries discuss the often-contentious topic of social justice, striving to flesh out its implications - both for ministry and for one's personal life.