16 Sweet Youth Group Ideas For March Madness

It’s that time of year. It happens every March. Some students in your youth groups are excited for it and others could care less. Here’s the good news, your group doesn’t have to have a lot athletes for you to use March Madness as a fun tool to have...

Youth Pastor, Here’s How To Plan Your Perfect Week

At the beginning of the year I designated each day of the week (M-F) to focus on one thing because ​Practical PKM​ suggested it would change how I work. So, here is how I allotted my days, Monday is Writing Day where ​I blog ​or post on social Tuesday is Audio Day...

The New Youth Pastors Guide To Getting Things Done

If you’ve been in youth ministry a while, think about to when you first started working in a church, did you discover some resistance to your new ideas? How long did it take you before you figured out you were working in system that didn’t favor new or...

6 Work Principles That Could Save Your Job

You could call this Surviving A Quarterly Review Part 2. In part one I shared a critical tip and 3 important reasons you should embrace the quarterly review. In this post I want to help you prepare, all year long, for what some youth pastors consider a critical...

Surviving The Quarterly Review

I sat in an office with the head of the youth ministry committee, 2 youth ministry volunteers and my pastor and if you think Leonardo DiCaprio got mauled in The Revenant, you haven’t seen anything. I sat there for an hour as a list of my faults, issues and...