Rev. Terry Carty, Director of The YouthWorker Movement

Not Pictured: Beth Morris, Assistant to the Director of The YouthWorker Movement

Staff Advisors to YWM Steering Committee

Terry Carty – Executive Director of the YouthWorker Movement

Jack Ewing – Executive Director, The Foundation For Evangelism

Mike Ratliff – Associate General Secretary, The General Board of Discipleship, Division on Ministries with Young People

Members of Organizing/Steering Committee

CYMX Board Members

Amy Barker– Director of Youth  and Family Ministries at Athens First UMC, Athens, GA, former chair of World Methodist Youth Council,  

Charles Harrison – South Central Jurisdiction Youth  Co-Coordinator, Director of Youth Ministry at First UMC Richardson TX, respected consultant in congregational  youth ministry

Micheal Selleck – No. Georgia Director of Connectional Ministries,  former No. Ga. Conf. Director of Youth Ministries,  35 year veteran youth worker

June Willson –  30 years in ministry with youth in the South Carolina Conference, has consistently held office in SEJ youth ministry and served on SEJAC.
 

Steering Committee

Rori Blakeney – Youthworker and journalist in Atlanta, GA

Reggie Blount – Professor in youth ministry at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, noted speaker with emphasis on urban youth ministries

Loren Boyce - Rocky Mountain Annual Conference

P. Jay Clark – is a youthworker currently working in Little Rock, Arkansas. 

Kenda Creasy Dean – Professor in youth ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary, noted speaker, author and authority on youth ministry

Drew Dyson – Pastor and youth minister in New Jersey Annual Conference, member of the GBOD Division on Ministries with Young People, former Director of Shared Mission Focus on Young People who developed legislation to create the Division, noted speaker and author

Tina Itson - Wisconsin Annual Conference

Tim Kennedy

Jennie Murray-Kostryukov

Emily Peck-McClain - New York, NY

Brent Seusy – Director of Youth and Young Adults at Ebenezer United Methodist Church in Suffolk, Virginia.

Ed Trimmer – Ed Trimmer is the Dean of the School of Religion at Pfeiffer University and author of Youth Ministry Handbook; BeTween Everything:  Teacher Helps for Transitioning Preteens; and Main Event Youth Ministry and the Side Shows

Ex-Officio

Paul Ervin - Fund Development Consultant, retired attorney, former Executive Director of Foundation for Evangelism

Jack Ewing

Hank Hilliard  - General Board of Discipleship

Mike Ratliff - General Board of Discipleship

Lynda Leonard - Lake Junaluska, NC

Mike Watson – Episcopal leader of North Georgia Annual Conference, former member of United Methodist Youth Organization (UMYO)