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Category Archives: Planning

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Date:February 17, 2023Posted By:projectadminCategory:Planning, Productivity, programming, soul care, Youth Ministry Resource

25 Books Every Youth Pastor Must Read In 2023

It’s the beginning of the year and, if you’re like me, you’re looking for new books to read. These are books I have already read, wrote, or are on my reading list for 2023. I have divided this list into three sections Ministry Nuts and Bolts, Soul Care and Other Non-Fiction. Ministry Nuts and Bolts…

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Date:December 27, 2022Posted By:projectadminCategory:Planning, Productivity, programming

My Three Pillar Process For Youth Ministry

Three Pillars of Youth Ministry  This past year, I felt like I was all over the map as far as programming, teaching and planning, then I had a talk with my pastor. I wanted to find out what his thoughts were about narrowing down the focus of the youth ministry to three pillars. These three…

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Date:June 9, 2022Posted By:projectadminCategory:Planning, soul care, Youth Ministry

Why New Youth Pastor’s Burn Out So Soon

Welcome to part five of my series The Five Plans Every New Youth Pastor Should Have. You can check out the beginning of the series here. Can I tell you when I most often felt the burn of burn out? It was was when the wheels in my head started to grind together effecting the…

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Date:June 9, 2022Posted By:projectadminCategory:Planning, programming, student leadership, Youth Ministry

How To Plan A Youth Meeting For Maximum Impact

Welcome to part four of my series on The 5 Plans Every New Youth Pastor Needs. You can read about the first plan I think is important here. Every new youth pastor needs a meeting plan. When I first started planning youth meetings I was pretty gung-ho about evangelism and every meeting I had was…

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Date:June 9, 2022Posted By:projectadminCategory:Planning, Productivity, programming, Youth Ministry

How New Youth Pastors Can Find Their Voice

Welcome to part two of my series The Five Plans Every New Youth Pastor Needs To Have. You can start at the first post here, If you like. I started youth ministry by just reading my bible, praying about it and then teaching on what God showed me. There’s nothing wrong with that, it was…

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Date:April 4, 2022Posted By:projectadminCategory:Church Growth, Planning, programming

Rebuilding Your Declining Youth Ministry Part 3

If you’re new here, and are not caught up, you can start this series here. If you are a Youth Pastor working hard to keep their youth ministry afloat, I feel for you, but you are working too hard, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Physically you’re work too hard (the set up, the planning) Mentally…

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Date:February 9, 2022Posted By:projectadminCategory:mental health, Planning, Productivity, programming, Youth Worker Training

Dealing With Pre-Youth Group Anxiety

There are weeks where I struggled with pre-youth group anxiety. I was anxious with questions like would the service go well? was I prepared? was the sermon good enough? would the students like the game? These questions were all part of my need to make sure things were perfect. Why? Why did I need to…

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Date:December 26, 2021Posted By:projectadminCategory:Planning, programming, small groups

How To Plan A Youth Sunday School

Sunday School was a part of my teen life for forever. I wasn’t committed because of the ugly room we met in, the bad snacks or the hard chairs; I was committed because I thought that is what I was supposed to do, so I did it. Classrooms have, generally, gotten better but the structure…

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Date:December 14, 2021Posted By:projectadminCategory:Planning, Productivity, programming

Seven Youth Ministry Event Strategies To Get Students Signed Up

I know getting students signed up for anything is a chore, but is there anything you can do about it? Start with why Why does this event exist? Why did it make it on to your calendar? It’s much easier to get students signed up if you know, and they know, why an event exists.…

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Date:December 12, 2021Posted By:projectadminCategory:Communication, Discipleship, New Resource, Planning, Productivity

The Youth Pastor’s Guide To Getting Your Youth Ministry In Order

Youth Ministry chaos is a lot of fun when it’s game time or even hangout time, but chaos is not fun when applied to organizing your youth ministry. There are two extremes in youth ministry calendars. One looks like this, This is calendar is too busy and busy is not better. Busy means you may…

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