Yesterday I shared some thoughts on staying emotionally healthy in ministry and today I want to share where most of my emotional upheaval comes from in one word: Expectations Ministry and the church, unlike a corporation, comes with some non-negotiable values built into it that you expect people to embrace. Corporations do not ask you…
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 seriously. Sometimes too seriously. We work hard at these things like peaching, programming and relationship building, and we don’t like to be challenged. We don’t make widgets. Widgets are…
As a full time youth worker, I sometimes spent too much time in the office. Too much time in the office lead to more paper work and less inspiration. As I started to get our more, my creativity increased. Manual labor takes me away from the mundane and gets me foccused on one task, like blowing…
