Welcome! If you’re new here and are not a subscriber, subscribe here and get the Youth Ministry Round Up in your inbox. Youth Ministry Tweet of the Week Not this youth pastor, but it checks out. Youth Ministry Pic of the Week I want an empty tomb biscuit creation. Pray for St. Johns youth ministry.…
In my opinion, and currently my experience, the weight of a small youth ministry is much heavier than running a large ministry. I want to share five weights small youth pastors have to bear that large youth group pastors do not. The weight of loss Bearing the weight of large youth ministry is certainly a…
If you’re following this series welcome to the fourth installment. If you’re new here, welcome to the party! You can start the series here. To summarize. Your first step to rebuilding your declining youth ministry, is not re-branding. Re-branding only covers up the internal problems that caused the decline in the first place. Instead, the…
If you’re new here, and are not caught up, you can start this series here. If you are a Youth Pastor working hard to keep their youth ministry afloat, I feel for you, but you are working too hard, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Physically you’re work too hard (the set up, the planning) Mentally…
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Welcome to part two of my four part series on Rebuilding Your Declining Youth Ministry. If you missed part one, where I talk about Re-Imagining Your Youth Ministry, click here to catch up Youth Pastors who want to focus on re-branding before re-imaging, eventually, fall into the same pit as before. To avoid this, let’s…
A friend asked me a question: How do you rebuild after a significant decline in program attendance. The question is, what is significant. I would estimate that losing 80% of your youth is significant if you have 100 students. If you lose 50% of your students, and you only had 10 students, that’s pretty significant.…
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I’ve seen The Batman twice, now. The first time I saw it, I had an idea of what to expect, but it was still a lot to take in so to be fair, another review was in order. This is a non-spoiler review. So, I give this movie a B+. Why not an A? Simple,…
I was a big comic book reader. In many of the comics I read I would see an ad for Tony Atlas body building, like this. In my view, the guy/girl usually getting sand kicked in their face, in the church, is the youth pastor. The “bully” could be anyone, the pastor, a board member,…
