Affinity Groups
Identify. Link. Collaborate.
Wouldn’t connecting with like-minded youth leaders to share resources and ideas be helpful? You can with DVULI Affinity Groups!
In response to your request to connect with fellow alumni who serve in the same ministry specialties, we will conduct Zoom dialogs for 13 ministry specialties.
We host two monthly dialogs, allowing for two annual calls per Affinity Group.
To join these national conversations, please identify one to five ministry specialties from the list below, and we will invite you via email:
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- After-School Tutoring
- Arts (music, dance, worship)
- Athletics (sports, recreation & fitness)
- Gang Intervention & Prevention
- Youth Experiencing Homelessness
- Juvenile Detention and Prison Ministry
- Empowering Youth in Entrepreneurialism (business & employment)
- Human Trafficking
- Youth Mentoring
- Parenting (teen mom and dad) and Abstinence
- Education and College Prep
- Youth Discipleship/Leadership Development
- Youth Mental Health
- Computer/Technology Lab/social media
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To identify your Affinity Groups, CLICK HERE to update that information in your DVULI.org profile. While you are there, please ensure your contact info is correct so you can receive the Zoom invitation via email.
Technical or log-in trouble? Don’t hesitate to CONTACT US.
2023-24 Affinity Group Zoom Call Schedule
| Date | Affinity Group | Moderator(s) | Zoom Call Link | Zoom Recording Link |
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| November 22, 2024 @ Noon (ET) | Youth in Performing Arts | Chantel Hampton (Orlando 2023), Rod Hines (Los Angeles 2003) | Click to watch. | |
| October 25, 2024 @ noon (ET) | Juvenile Detention/Prison Ministry | Barrell Richardson (YFC 2018) Preston Adams YFC 2018) | Click to watch. | |
| September 13, 2024 @ noon (ET) | Youth at Risk of Homelessness | Myron Bernard (Seattle-Tacoma 2011) | Click to watch. | |
| August 23, 2024 @ noon (ET) | Affinity Group Youth Mentoring | Sarah Richman (New York 2011) Jeffery Thompson (DC 2022) | Click to watch. | |
| June 26, 2024 @ noon (ET) | Affinity Group Athletics (sports, recreation & fitness) | Bookie Gates (Seattle-Tacoma 2012), Nike Greene (Portland 2005) | Click to watch. | |
| May 22, 2024 @ noon (ET) | Gang Intervention & Prevention | Amy Williams (Chicago 2007), Thell Robinson III (Columbus 2015) | Click to watch. | |
| May 16, 2024 @ 1:00PM (ET) | Empowering Youth in Entrepreneurialism | Lawrence Cain (Cincinnati 2021), Daniel Sanabria (YFC 2018) | Click to watch. | |
| May 1, 2024 @ noon (ET) | Abstinence & Teen Parents | Zhivonne Armstrong (Denver 2021), LaTanisha White (Cleveland 2023) | Click to watch. | |
| April 10, 2024 @ noon (ET) | Youth Discipleship | Donna Perkins Whitman (Los Angeles 2005) & Jonny Fine (Cleveland 2007) | Click to watch. | |
| March 8, 2024 @ noon | Arts & Worship | Lauren Miller (San Antonio 2022) & Chris McCord (Atlanta 2006) | Click to watch. | |
| Jan 31, 2024 @ noon | Youth Education/College Prep | Darye Henry (Indianapolis 2013) & Sharod Tomlinson (New York 2009) & Tolton Pace (Atlanta 2014) | not recorded due to technical issues | |
| Dec 13, 2023 @ noon | Youth Mental Health | David Medina (Philly 2019) | Click to watch. | |
| Dec 6, 2023 @ noon | Human Trafficking | Imani Robinson (St. Louis 2017) & Monique Johnson (Washington DC 2009) | Click to watch. | |
| Nov 3, 2023 @ noon | Youth Sports Ministry Group | Jason Curry (Newark 2021) & Kekoa Hubbard (Oakland-SF Bay Area 2021) | Click to watch. | |
| Nov 1, 2023 @ noon | Juvenile Detention/Prison Ministry | Terence Smith (Kansas City 2008) & Barrell Richardson (YFC 2018) | Click to watch. |
