You could call this Surviving A Quarterly Review Part 2. In part one I shared a critical tip and 3 important reasons you should embrace the quarterly review. In this post I want to help you prepare, all year long, for what some youth pastors consider a critical meeting, or meetings, that could effect their…
Let me ask you, how many excuses did you make last year? Probably a lot, as did I, Let me narrow it down, how many excuses did you make last year that kept you and your youth ministry from being successful? I bet you can narrow it down to a few. One more question, how…
If I see one post over and over again it’s, “What are you reading?” I like post like these because I am an avid reader and I love to share what I am getting from the books I am reading. This list will be added to. subtracted from and morph over time. Not all these…
Welcome to part 6, the last in my series on mastering your youth ministry calendar. If you’d like to start this series from the beginning, check out Part 1. Have I Made Any Assumptions? Critical Thinking Challenge your assumptions and consider alternative perspectives. I thought they were going to do X I thought the church…
Hey, you’re back for more, huh? Unless this is your first time here and you are coming in on the middle of this series, which is perfectly fine, each of these posts cover an important point in calendar development. If you want the full experience, head over to the first post and work your way…
Well, hello there. First time here? Welcome. If you’ve stumbled into the middle of my series on youth ministry calendar development and would like to start from the beginning, you can head over here. If you’re back for more of the series, thank for returning. Some of you may be thinking, “Paul, you’re pretty obsessive…
This is part 2 of my series Before You Put It On The Calendar, you can read part 1 here. In this post I want to talk about the second question you should ask before you put that event on the youth calendar… Does This Event Conflict with Other Church Ministries? It’s essential to check…
If you are in ministry you live and die by the calendar and, depending on the size of your church, you “death by calendar” could be imminent if you are not careful. So, stop clacking those keys and put the pencil down until you’ve asked these 6 questions, starting with this one. Does The Event/Program/Message…
Re-launching is a big deal and how you go about it matters because, as they say, you can put a diamond ring in a pig’s snout but it’s still a pig. Don’t re-dress the pig, better to smoke it and eat it. At least this way you’re being honest, a pig is a pig. There…
“Today. Today… At the edge of our hope, at the end of our time, we have chosen not only to believe in ourselves, but in each other. Today there is not a man nor woman in here that shall stand alone. Not today. Today we face the monsters that are at our door and bring…
