25 Years of Training Leaders … and Counting!

My first ministry position fresh out of college was with Miami Youth for Christ (YFC). Starting out as an evangelist/chaplain at Miami’s Juvenile Detention Center, I later became the Liberty City Area Director, where I ran evangelistic Small Groups for inner-city...

UTN Introductory Blog Post

For a while now I have wanted to maintain our blog on the Urban Training Network site. But like with so many things in life, it consistently gets put on the back burner. I often tell people I can’t think of anything to write, and then I head off to teach a class...

Developing Youth Programs for Urban Teens-Part 1

It was over 15 years ago when I was handed the keys to an old van, a list of 15 kids from one of Miami’s most crime-ridden communities, and given the assignment: “Your mission —should you choose to accept it —is to rehabilitate those troubled kids on the...