This is part six in my seven part series on how to keep your youth ministry from collapsing. You can read from the beginning here. Without discipleship, the church is a halfway house for repeat offenders. That’s a strong statement, but I stand behind it. I’ve worked in enough churches that were unintentional in their…
This is part five in my seven part series on keeping your youth ministry from collapsing. You can read from the beginning here. Infrastructure isn’t sexy, but every youth ministry has to have it to keep moving. The fifth pillar that will keep your youth ministry for collapsing is a heart for evangelism. Notice I…
This may be the most important interview I have done on this podcast because of the times we live in. Crisis seems to be an everyday event in the life of a teen, but Jim Hancock is here to share how we can help them through it. Check out Jim’s one page Crisis Sheets at…
Welcome! If you’re new here and are not a subscriber, subscribe here and get the Youth Ministry Round Up in your inbox. Good Morning Awesome People, Let me begin with some bad news and an invitation. Author and Pastor Jarrid Wilson committed suicide yesterday leaving the Christian community devastated, again. Suicide is becoming more and more prevalent that…
This is part four in my series on building an infrastructure to support your youth ministry. You can read through from the beginning starting here. Every youth pastor’s calendar is different, based on the size and model of church, but what drives me crazy is a calendar that is random. Why did you put that…
This is part three in my series on how to keep your youth ministry from collapsing. You can start from the beginning here. I sat in the Pastor’s office after an incident where our outreach bus was pulled over by the cops because of a fight on the bus. It’s not party (or youth ministry)…
This is part two in my seven part series on youth ministry and infrastructure. You can read part one here. If you’re into super hero movies, you’ve seen superheroes lift cars, trucks and even semi’s. It’s a cool visual, one man or woman holding up this heavy object to save dozens of people from certain…
This is part one in my seven part series on pillars of youth ministry infrastructure. Stay up to date on future posts. Tents need poles. Houses need frames. Bodies need bones. Like all of the things above, youth ministry needs an infrastructure to keep from being just a pile of programs lying on the floor.…
podcast notes I am opening another night of coaching, Tuesday Sept. 10 – November 19th. Six one hour sessions to talk about how to make your youth grow, improving your leadership skills, how to handle church politics, whatever area you want to grow in, we’ll talk about. I’ll put the link in the show notes,…
Sometimes the internet has good things, like this Giant Board Game challenge from Unspeakable. This a great game for your youth ministry that you can play between two teams, as an opener for your youth ministry or it’s everyone against everyone. You cool use this as a special event for your next lock in. The…
