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Igniting Ministry
810 12th Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37203-4744

P.O. Box 320
Nashville, TN 37202-0320

Phone: 877-281-6535
Fax: 615-742-5777
im@umcom.org

Press Center

how do we reach the others?


This Press Center is designed to help you share this welcoming ministry with your congregation and community. Choose from deadline-ready news stories and briefs, and supporting images from the Photo Gallery.

Overview

Igniting Youth, a ministry by Igniting Ministry for teen welcoming, builds upon the success of the advertising and welcoming ministry for adults. But in contrast to Igniting Ministry's outreach to adult seekers through national television messaging, Igniting Youth messages with teen seekers through a Christian Web environment.

Want to know more? You will find all the major components of Igniting Youth represented here.

  1. Teen Welcoming -- an overview
  2. Teen Welcoming Handbook -- a guide to help churches enhance their welcoming ministry for teens
  3. Teen Welcoming Tools -- free invitational materials and resources from MediaWarehouse
  4. Teen Welcome -- an online teen welcoming experience, OrangeFloat.org

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teen welcoming
Teen Welcoming
Igniting Youth Overview

Our denominational heritage reflects a strong commitment to sharing Christ. To extend that tradition to another generation seems a natural next step with wonderful opportunities, along with many challenges.

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Teen Welcoming Handbook
Get Started

Invitations become a natural way to share activities and experiences that make a difference in people’s lives and in the world. This Handbook is full of teen-specific advice, training, ideas and insights.

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Teen Welcoming Tools

invitational materials & resources

True to our denomination’s heritage, ministry reaches well beyond sanctuaries (and youth lounges) into unusual places (soccer fields, concert venues, gyms). Invitations, in the form of things such as door hangers and posters, become a natural way to share activities and experiences that make a difference in people’s lives and in the world.

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Teen Welcome
orangefloat.org

John Wesley had a reputation for preaching in the language of ordinary people. In OrangeFloat.org, simple, straightforward, and spontaneous communication breaks down barriers and presents good news – not in sermons, but rather in Mosaic tiles, teen video profiles and heartfelt answers to spiritually challenging questions.

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