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6 Tips for Finding and Planning Local Service Projects
Planning local service projects for your ministry? These tips will help you get started. Local service projects for your teenagers can be a chance to embrace the “mission” without the “trip”. It’s using your own backyard as the setting for an...
Youth Ministry Round Up #74
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 of the Week This is Jacobs Ladder Camp and youth group having a lock-in. Two of my favorite things, youth and...
Rules of Engagement
This is my third post, of a three part series, on resolving conflict in the church. You can check out the first post here and the second here. If I can offer you a custom video lesson on this topic for your youth, you can click here. In this post I...
Perception is Reality and Other Misunderstandings
This is part two of my series on resolving conflict in the church the right way. You can check out part one here and part three here. If I can offer you a custom video lesson on this topic click here Conflict can be sin, but not every conflict is...
Resolving Conflict In Your Youth Ministry The Right Way
https://soundcloud.com/yminmotion/resolving-conflict-the-right-way I've been in ministry for over 30 years and I like to think I know a little about conflict. Sometimes I created conflict (youth ministry, am I right?) and sometimes it found me no...
Youth Ministry Round Up #73
Such a cool thing. I don't know if Streets Ministries set this up, but wouldn't it be cool to create opportunities like this for your students? Pray for Streets Ministries. Articles Why So Much Zoom Fatigue? How To Cope With Teen Anxiety How to...
NF Lost Video Bible Study
NF is back and his new video to his new song Lost is, in my opinion, his best yet. I've watched dozens of Reaction Videos to NF's music videos and many cannot figure out what NF is saying in these videos. Knowing that NF (Nathan John Feuerstein)...
Youth Ministry Round Up #72
Welcome! If you're new here and are not a subscriber, subscribe here and get the Youth Ministry Round Up in your inbox. IG Youth Ministry of the Week I can't tell you exactly why I chose this picture this week, but it spoke to me. Pray for C3sm YM...
4 Serious Signs Youth Pastors Should Update Their Resumes
There are those moments in ministry where you stare at your computer and wonder, " Should I be updating my resume?" The answer is yes, you should be, but that doesn't mean you're looking to quit. According to Indeed's Guide to Updating Your Resume,...
Youth Ministry Round Up #71
If you're new here, this newsletter is normally password protected for subscribers only. You could be getting this newsletter in your e-mail every couple of weeks. Don't miss out on articles, videos and more that will help you grow in your calling...
Youth Ministry Round Up #70
Welcome! If you're new here and are not a subscriber, subscribe here and get the Youth Ministry Round Up in your inbox. Quotes In 2021, if coming to Christ means coming to your church in a set location and a set hour, you need a new strategy....
Discomfort and Discipleship
https://soundcloud.com/yminmotion/discomfort-and-discipleship There is nothing comfortable about real discipleship. It is the role of the the youth pastor, you, to create discomfort in your youth ministry all the while being hospitable. The...
Why I Won’t Argue With Internet Atheists
Not too long ago, I put a video up of fellow youth worker Trevor Hamaker and I talking about apologetics and why students need to have a handle on belief basics early. It's not a surprise that an atheist commented on the video but I refused to...
What Does Authentic Community Look Like?
https://soundcloud.com/yminmotion/what-does-christian-community-look-like I had the pleasure of speaking with one of my middle school musical heroes, Glenn Kaiser. Glens was/is the lead singer of Resurrection Band, a hard rock band formed in the...
Love: A Responsive Reading
Download the pdf and slides here Love is theoretical for many young people. They don’t believe they can truly be loved or to love someone else because they’re not perfect or don’t meet someone else’s standard. This could not be further from the...
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