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Category Archives: Productivity

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Date:May 8, 2017Posted By:Paul TurnerComments:1 CommentCategory:Planning, Productivity, programming

Are SMART Goals A Dumb Idea For Youth Pastors?

Be SMART with how you set and accomplish your goals. pic.twitter.com/iUKPQSnp90 — Larry Kim (@larrykim) April 2, 2018 We all have goals, but we don’t all reach them the same way.  I should have titled this Are SMART Goals A Dumb Idea For Certain Kinds of Youth Pastors, but that was too long . Certainly,…

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Date:June 21, 2016Posted By:Paul TurnerComments:1 CommentCategory:Discipleship, Inspire Me, Productivity, student leadership, Volunteers

Working Yourself Out Of A Job(s) In Three Easy Steps

Yesterday I shared the joy of missing part of a youth event and allowing my leaders, students and adults, to lead. In effect I am decentralizing leadership and working myself out of jobs I no longer want to do to focus on my new job description of creating and dreaming for the future. Does the…

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Date:December 9, 2013Posted By:Paul TurnerComments:1 CommentCategory:Productivity, Youth Worker Training

19 Questions You Should Be Asking About Your Youth Ministry in 2019

I asked these questions every year and some I could answer, some I couldn’t, and some I just had to leave up to God.  Having a list like this makes you want to curl up in ball and never get out of bed (been there) but it also shows us why prayer is so important…

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Date:September 4, 2011Posted By:Paul TurnerCategory:Productivity, programming, Youth Worker Training

Youth Ministry Diagnostics

Oil change places have a great selling point, they will check X amount of things on your car for one price. It sounds invasive. It sounds like they’ll take the whole thing apart and put it back together. We feel pretty safe because they will check x amount of things. The rub is, when they check…

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Date:October 28, 2010Posted By:Paul TurnerComments:1 CommentCategory:Planning, Productivity, programming, Youth Ministry Marketing

Is Youth Ministry A Competitive Sport? Part II

I’ll say it again. I never believed in competing with my brothers and sisters in Christ. It was never my group vs theirs or my calling vs their calling. We are not called to be competitors but rather to be competitive. You have to ask yourself why you need to stay competitive in the youth…

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Date:October 15, 2010Posted By:Paul TurnerComments:4 CommentsCategory:Communication, Planning, Productivity, programming

Is Youth Ministry A Competitive Sport? Part I

“Where is everyone tonight?” “I think a lot of them went over at First Church to their outreach.” “Man, what is going on?!” Ever have this conversation before or after a youth meeting? I know youth workers like to say they are not in competition with their brothers and sisters in Christ, and they are…

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Date:July 11, 2010Posted By:Paul TurnerCategory:Planning, Productivity, programming, Team Work, Youth Worker Training

Anatomy of a Blown Event: Where Did I Go Wrong?

 If I had a $1 for every failed event….well, lets just say, I would have a lot of dollars. Events are cool when we pull them off, but is that all there is to an event? Not the good ones. When the pre, actual, and post event pieces come together, it’s a beautiful thing. When…

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Date:June 29, 2010Posted By:Paul TurnerCategory:Productivity

10 iPhone Apps Youth Workers Might Find Useful

Here are a few of my apps that get me by when I am in a pinch. Productivity Creative Whack Pack– This is a fun way to take old ideas and see them through a new lens. Nice for the price, considering I paid $20 for the actual card pack. Receipts Lite– Ever get in…

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Date:June 24, 2010Posted By:Paul TurnerCategory:Productivity, youth ministry jobs

What Youth Workers Love To Do vs What They’re Paid To Do

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Date:May 28, 2010Posted By:Paul TurnerComments:1 CommentCategory:Inspire Me, mental health, Productivity

How A Mindless Activity Gave Me The Inspiration To Create

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…

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