AN EVALUATION OF CONTEXTUALIZATION AND APPLICATION OF YOUTH MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL’S TRAINING OF CUBAN YOUTH WORKERS James Randall Smith, D.Miss The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2012 Chair: Dr. James D. Chancellor This dissertation examines Youth Ministry International’s (YMI) paradigm for training Cuban youth workers that sends credentialed expatriate professors into a limited access country, partners with a national seminary, and delivers a master’s degree to qualified candidates, who upon completion of the program qualify as professors who then train students to be youth leaders in churches. The goal was to determine if the courses taught to national professors were contextualized to them, whether the national professors further contextualized the courses to students and if the graduating youth leaders successfully applied their training. Chapter 1 introduces the ministry and strategy of YMI and its vision to assist churches, within people groups of the world, equip youth leaders with a Biblical and intercultural philosophy and strategy. In addition, the chapter outlines YMI’s Cuban training program and goals. Chapter 2 provides a review of literature addressing factors surrounding the project objectives: Cuban historical cultural background; definitions of contextualization; effective contextualization criteria; contextualization models; past and current attempts at Latin American contextualization and; examples of Cuban youth culture as ministry

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