Duffy Robbins, Associate Professor of Youth Ministry at Eastern University, St. Davids, Pennsylvania, is a twenty-four year veteran of youth ministry, having gained extensive experience as a youth minister in both para-church and local parish positions. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Duffy graduated magna cum laude with a Master of Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts.
Duffy has spoken at youth retreats and conventions, conferences and workshops for youth workers, and at major Christian music festivals like Creation, Cornerstone, ICHTHUS, and Blackstump. His international ministry has ranged from youth conventions and training conferences in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, South Africa and all over North America to a national pastors conference in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and a lectureship at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.
As an Associate Staff member of Youth Specialties, Duffy works throughout the year in training events for youth workers, appearing each spring in about fifteen cities coast to coast as a part of the CORE and at the National Youthworkers Conventions each fall. Duffy’s speaking schedule also takes him each year to a number of college and university campuses as part of the Staley Distinguished Christian Scholars Lectureship.
Ordained in the United Methodist Church, Duffy has been active within that denomination writing curriculum, speaking at numerous youth and youthworker events, and serving as a consultant to the United Methodist Publishing House on issues pertaining to youth and youth ministry. Through his column, “The Next Generation”, Duffy is a regular contributor to Good News Magazine, a semi-monthly magazine committed to Scriptural Christianity within the United Methodist Conference.
Duffy has written curriculum for David C. Cook Publishing and Scripture Press, as well as numerous articles for Youthworker Journal, Good News, Campus Life, Group, and Youth Teacher and Counselor and various youth ministry publications in the UK, South Africa and Australia..
Duffy is the author of numerous books including Youth Ministry That Works (Victor), Ministry of Nurture (Zondervan/Youth Specialties), Youth Ministry Nuts and Bolts (Zondervan/Youth Specialties), Option Plays (Zondervan/Youth Specialties), and Going the Distance (Zondervan/Youth Specialties), Spontaneous Melodramas I and II (Zondervan/Youth Specialties), Memory Makers (Zondervan/Youth Specialties) and Everyday Object Lessons (Zondervan/Youth Specialties). His most recent book is a youth ministry textbook, This Way to Youth Ministry: An Introduction to the Adventure (Zondervan/Youth Specialties).
Duffy lives in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania with his wife, Maggie. They have two incredible daughters, Erin (now, Erin Lima) and Katie.
(Thursday 8:30am)
Why do we as youthworkers do what we do? Do you ever feel like you’re on a youth ministry tread mill, planning the next meeting, so you can plan the next planning meeting, so that you can raise funds for the next event, which you’re not sure how to plan? This seminar will help define a biblical vision for our youth ministries, and provide some thought about how we can translate that vision into the kind of practical “big picture” that will guide and shape our programs.
(Thursday 4:00pm)
Most of us know the frustration of walking into a room full of teenagers thinking you have the “gift of teaching”, and walking out of the room an hour later wondering why God didn’t give any of your students the “gift of listening”. By exploring some of the basic principles of effective and creative teaching, and through demonstration of practical hands-on teaching techniques, this seminar will give you some great ideas and stimulate you with new strategies for communicating the Word of God.
(Friday 8:30am)
Youth workers talk about teenage disciples in low hushed tones with the kind of wonder reserved for sightings of Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster. "Can it really happen?" "What does teenage discipleship look like?" This seminar offers both analysis and encouragement as we explore some basic principles of teenage spirituality and define some essential traits of teenage spirituality.
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