You, the local youth worker, are an artist. That is my premise as I break down Jeff Goins’ new book Real Artists Don’t Starve and share the principles as to why this is true about you. In the past, we’ve romanticized the struggling youth worker: no...
Hey, I’m going to be gone all week on a missions trip to Honduras. Sorry to leave you hanging in the middle of my series on trying to convince you that you an artist and a creative force to be reckoned with, but duty calls. The series is based in Jeff Goins new...
Welcome back! This is my fourth post in my attempt to convince you that you’re an artist. You may be a youth pastor, a small group leader, a bi-vocational youth worker who does plumbing on the side, or a volunteer youth worker. You are...
This is day three of my twelve part series, using Jeff Goins new book, Real Artists Don’t Starve, to convince you, the local youth pastor, that you are an artist. You can catch up by starting here and then here. Why not grab the book and read long with me?...
I was at a Youth Specialties NYWC and I was sitting in a Doug Field’s breakout session and he said, “You don’t have to be original, beg, borrow and steal.” Wait, I didn’t have to come up with all this stuff myself? It was ok to steal...
