I spend my days writing for and training youth workers JUST LIKE YOU.
Don’t Take It Personally
https://soundcloud.com/yminmotion?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing You know if someone leads with the words, "Don't take it personally, but" you are about to be offended. Many of us take our youth work very...
Youth Ministry Is Not A Game..Or Is It?
When I was in youth group (a very long time ago), I remember my youth pastor doing a contest called L.I.F.E.. He broke down the youth group into four teams and we would have weekly contests between team members, etc. and at the end the winning team...
The Myth of Fairness
There is nothing fair about life or ministry, yet, we spend an enormous amount of time and energy trying to make everything fair for ourselves, our our youth ministry, and our leaders. Jesus was not fair. Jesus chose less qualified people and...
Pentecostals Are People Too…Most of The Time
I don't know what you expected when you clicked on this link, a blog in tongues and a link to a separate blog with the interpretation perhaps? I jest.... a little. This post is not a poor, woe is me type blog, but more of one to encourage an...
Youth Worker Devotion: Like Sparks Through Stubble
But the souls of the upright are in the hand of God, and no torment can touch them. To the unenlightened they appeared to die, their departure was reegarded as disaster, their leaving us like annihilation; but they are at peace. If, as it seemed to...
Two For Flinching
I hate games where you can get punched for doing something that is natural for you to do. There's the game where you try to get people to look at a circle you make with your fingers. There is the Door Knob game where you have to touch a door knob...
Student Leadership Boot Camp
Here's a thought. Let's let students lead. "Not as easy as it looks" I said in a previous post. The hardest part is letting go. Letting go of control, letting go of ego, and letting go of the outcome of students leading is tough. So, I have...
Youth Ministry Event Sign Up Secrets
https://soundcloud.com/yminmotion/what-does-christian-community-look-like One of my biggest headaches in youth ministry, was the sign up system for events. It is an exercise in futility. Names on sheets of paper feels archaic. At this point...
Two Tips For Creating A Youth Ministry Calendar That Matters
I was looking at my calendar for next year. It's packed. The question is: What's the point? Do I want every weekend of my life packed? Does a packed schedule = success or just business. It is a question of timing. When is the right time to do an...
Student Leadership: Not As Easy As It Sounds
“Did you say harder? Well, I’m out then, I thought this was going to be easy. I thought I was just suppose to get out of the way and all these kids were supposed to step up.” - Every youth worker who thought releasing students to do ministry would...
20 Plus Gift Ideas For Volunteers
Do you want to show some love to the people that have helped you and your youth ministry out this past year? Don't know what to get your volunteers or leader? Here's a list of expensive and inexpensive ways to bless those working in the harvest...
Is Your Life The Sum of Wins and Losses?
" In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing." Job 1:22 The Iron Bowl is the yearly college football contest in the State of Alabama between the Auburn Tigers and the Crimson Tide. Every year it's a battle for bragging rights...
Taking The Pain Out Of Parent Meetings
I could have used a lot of pictures for this blog that would have best represented how we feel about parents meetings . Here is another photo that I would deem appropriate. Which ever picture you relate to, sometimes it feels like this when it...
Youth Ministry Welcome Center Ideas
This is my BF (Before Facebook) attempt at getting answers for my youth room. Sadly, my church was destroyed a year later in a tornado so I didn't have to worry about a makeover. It all worked out though. You can walk though my process of...
Youth Worker, Take Your Stand On The Battlefield
https://soundcloud.com/yminmotion/taking-your-place-on-the-battlefield Some things will never change in youth ministry like middle school boys not taking showers, high school girls in conflict and church politics. Maybe this pandemic has drawn...
The Disciple Project OUTREACH MANUAL
HOW TO TRANSFORM YOUR DECAYING YOUTH MEETING INTO A FLOURISHING CITY-WIDE MOVEMENT