Is Your Youth Ministry Lost? Maps Available

  Have you ever been lost in a city or town and stopped to ask for directions? I have and the mistake I made was asking a group of people for directions. There were several ideas of how to get me to my destination. They said things like, “You could take...

Do Senior Pastors Make The Best Mentors For Youth Workers?

  In my previous post I discussed what I thought the difference between mentoring and coaching is. I invite you to share what you think the difference is and which one you are more in need of at this point in your ministry. Today, I want to talk about mentoring...

Tips For Volunteer Training: Thinking Inside The Board Game Box

  I  read an article the other day called “How To Teach Someone A Board Game”. It is a simple, short article; but I think if we borrowed the tips from this article we could teach our ministry volunteers faster, with less mistakes, and with a win for...

How I Plan On Dealing With The Miley Issue With My Youth Ministry

Whenever we have a kurfuffle like “What should we do with a believer behaving badly?” we have some choices:      1. Ignore it.  The problem with choice is that a chunk of our students are not ignoring it and they are looking how we respond to it. So, I...

Avoiding “Game Rage” in Youth Ministry

  Pic Source I played some games with my almost 14 year old son this weekend. The game we played was called Summoner Wars and it’s a fun strategy card and dice game. It is a new game, to us, and so we played three times over the weekend, I lost every time....