I have lead roughly over 1,000 youth meetings in 20 years and they all had mistakes and last night was no different. Here are the 3 things I saw wrong last night: 1. We started later than we wanted to. 2. The font size was too small (needed to be 64). 3. The microphone batteries…
2013 is right around the corner and some you may be changing key leaders or even changing jobs. This fact makes it really important that we remember who our new leaders are not; they are not the old leaders They won’t sing like the old leader. They won’t play games like the old leader. They…
What if you lose a key leader? Do you have a back up plan? We recently lost a student leader who played a key role in our group from a skill level and a social level. It was due to some relational and family things beyond my control. We did everything to keep them and…
To get the context of what I am going to say, you should watch both videos. I appreciate Angus’s heart, I am afraid he did two things wring 1) He did not think through how he should go about making his faith public and 2) He did not entrust himself to people who had his…
Looking for three weeks of outreach and messages that take advantage of the football season? Look no more. Rivals is now available for purchase on Youthmin.org. You can read a full review at Youthmin.org. but you can only get a free lesson here. Kick the tires and then stop by youthmin.org and grab the…
For those who may not know, or remember, our church was destroyed in the April 27th storms last year. You can read about the storm and the damage HERE and our recovery HERE. Just recently, we finished the youth and the children’s building and have been meeting it for about a month. I was actually allowed to…
I was recently reading an article by Frank Strong called Why Content Marketing Is The New Branding. It was a short, straight forward piece on why the online content, not our logo or mission statement, is how we are branded (known). Out of this article I had several thoughts about the real life content we…
Much of the chaos we experience as youth workers is self induced. We get entrenched in a mindset and build around that. Now, if that mindset is whole and healthy, all is well. When our mindset is unhealthy, watch out. For me, the word “accept” was unacceptable. It was a sign of surrender. What couldn’t I…
Preaching is a life giving way to affirm and to challenge students. Preaching should not be our go to method for solving problems in our youth ministry. There are problems we face both personally and professionally that require more than a message. In building terms, if we have issues within our group such as dissension,…
I was at a campus bible club this morning and the speaker did not show up. One of the youth pastors, who is a decent speaker and a good guy, shared some thoughts from his message the night before. Nothing wrong with that, but how would True Believers have handled this differently? We Don’t Always…
