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A Youth Pastor’s Guide To Self Care During Social Distancing
One of your main jobs is building community, which is tough to do in this season. Social Media was the extra stuff you did to connect, now it's the only thing you use to connect. If you're an IRL people person, all these video screens may have you...
10 Entertaining Games You Can Play With Your Small Group Online
Hello, if you're reading this in the future, it's 2020 and we are quarantined due to the Corona Virus or Covid-19. Life is crazy. People are crazy, buying lots of toilet paper for no reason. If you're in the present, you're probably meeting with...
7 Ways To Keep Your Youth Ministry Connected During The Pandemic
Did you watch church from home this past Sunday? Are your Sunday service and youth group meetings cancelled for the next few weeks? We are in interesting times aren't we? As in all things, we must find the blessing. Many have said, and it is true,...
Youth Ministry Round Up #51
Welcome! If you're new here and are not a subscriber, subscribe here and get the Youth Ministry Round Up in your inbox. Let me start today with a quote, "Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do...
Three Critical Words To Keep Your Youth Ministry Team Afloat
One of my favorite scenes in Pirates of the Caribean: At World's End, is the sword fight scene during the maelstrom where boats are getting sucked in and destroyed. Sadly, many youth ministry team meetings feel this way. There's lots of fighting...
Youth Ministry Round Up #50
Welcome! If you're new here and are not a subscriber, subscribe here and get the Youth Ministry Round Up in your inbox. As I write this, it is day four or five of Lent. I choose to do Lent over beginning of the year fasts because it's more...
Youth Ministry Round Up #49
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, I love milestones, they tell me if I'm making progress. The next YMRU will be #50! This weeks...
The Worst Thing You Can Say To Your Students
I was scrolling through Instagram and I stopped on video of a youth pastor making a big announcement. What he said made me cringe and it is the very thing you should never say to your youth group. "we built this for you" The youth pastor was...
Youth Ministry Round Up #48
Welcome! If you're new here and are not a subscriber, subscribe here and get the Youth Ministry Round Up in your inbox. Finally back from Hawaii where I had the honor of teaching at the Youth Ministry Summit in Kauai. Yes, Hawaii was beautiful,...
Youth Ministry Round Up #47
Welcome! If you're new here and are not a subscriber, subscribe here and get the Youth Ministry Round Up in your inbox. Happy Tuesday All! I hope your week is off to a good start. As many of you know I took on a job as an assistant facility...
Don’t Let Any Of These 21 Words Define Your Youth Ministry
If you're wondering what makes a successful youth ministry, it may help to look at some words and phrases that make for an unsuccessful youth ministry. I asked my youth ministry friends, and others, to chime in on what words describe unsuccessful...
Youth Ministry From A Parent's Perspective
If you're not a parent, how often do you look at your youth ministry form a parent's perspective? It could change how often you have conflict with parents. It could open doors for parents to become part for your team or to at least serve in some...
How To Stretch Your Influence Beyond The Church Walls
Welcome! If this is your first time listening to the podcast, thank you for giving it a try. If you're a regular, back for more, you will not be disappointed. Lenita and I talked briefly about the fires effecting her country, if you would like to...
Youth Ministry Round Up #46
Welcome! If you're new here and are not a subscriber, subscribe here and get the Youth Ministry Round Up in your inbox. Happy New Year everyone! Ok, that's it, no more saying Happy New Year after today. I don't know what the official date is for...
Pastor, Here's How You Hold On To Talented Youth Workers
Youth Pastors do not leave churches, they leave Pastors. Pastor, does that shock you? I know that many pastors want to couch a youth pastors leaving their church in religious language and claiming God's will, etc. but the truth is, they're leaving...
The Disciple Project OUTREACH MANUAL
HOW TO TRANSFORM YOUR DECAYING YOUTH MEETING INTO A FLOURISHING CITY-WIDE MOVEMENT