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Do you want to be a part of a disciple-making movement with teens?
Do you feel most alive when you’re involved in relational ministry? If you have a passion for people and for God, and want to know Him and make Him known, consider Taylor’s Youth Ministry major. You’ll learn to reach young people for Christ through building relationships, binding their wounds, and proclaiming the gospel.
The Youth Ministry major combines Scripture, theology, and ministry engagement with a rigorous education. Starting your freshman year, you will dig into hands-on adolescent ministry opportunities—working with teens, equipping them to claim their Christian faith as their own, and encouraging them to grow as disciples and disciple-makers.
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We develop the whole person, not just focus on academics. We’ll help you discover your calling and then guide you to develop into the person who can effectively minister to teens and young people.
Taylor faculty in the Biblical Studies, Christian Ministries, Intercultural Studies & Philosophy Department provide hands-on mentorship, supporting students in and beyond the classroom.
The curriculum guides below outline required courses and degree requirements for each academic program.
A Taylor liberal arts education will prepare you to live and work in a fast-changing world. It also goes a step further: laying a strong spiritual foundation that cultivates wisdom. You’ll become a well-versed individual, equipped with critical thinking skills, a lifelong love of learning, and an appreciation for God’s creation.
Through academic January term trips, you can experience the Holy Land and other biblical locations while also earning course credit.
Holy Land Studies J-Term Trip
The Holy Land Studies trip is based on the campus of Jerusalem University and goes throughout the Holy Land. You’ll travel to Galilee and visit the traditional locations of the crucifixion and burial of Jesus. Explore Bethlehem, Nazareth, Caesarea Philippi, and Caesarea Maritima where Paul was imprisoned before his trip to Rome. This January term course fulfills a foundational Bible credit or as a Bible elective.
Footsteps of Paul
This three-week trip to Greece and Italy during J-Term covers a core Bible credit. The trip focuses on Paul’s letters to various churches either sent to or from cities in Greece and Italy during his second and third missionary journeys. Students visit key sites including Thessaloniki, Athens, Corinth, and Rome.
Youth ministry students are very relationally connected through retreats, dinners with faculty, upperclassmen mentoring, and small groups. You can expect contact between students and professors who have strong ministry experience and the highest level of advanced degrees.
If you’re passionate about discipling teens to follow Christ, consider a Youth Ministry minor. This minor pairs well with Sport Management, Biblical Literature, Christian Ministries, and Worship Arts.
Throughout your time at Taylor, you’ll receive an in-depth understanding of youth ministry, focusing on spiritual formation, adolescent psychology, youth culture, and cross-cultural service and experiential learning.
Aaron Crull
Class of 2016
“My time at Taylor equipped me with the knowledge needed to have a healthy start in full-time ministry. I learned that ministry is more than just knowledge and skill.”
Contact
May Young
Department Chair and Associate Professor of Biblical Studies
765-998-4786
[email protected]
Contact
Elissa Bennett
Biblical Studies, Christian Ministries, Intercultural Studies & Philosophy Program Assistant
765-998-5148
[email protected]
