The following article targets two goals in two parts. The first part of the article describes the relationship between the Christian Education Journal’s first twenty years and youth ministry research and publishing as well as the development of youth ministry degrees. The second part of the article looks both at more recent developments in youth ministry and forward into the immediate future of education of youth workers and practice of youth ministry.
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