“Implementation of promises is as important as making them.” – Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy Every company and brand makes you a promise about their product. If you buy our stuff you will, feel better lose weight gain confidence Consider some of the more familiar promises you’ve heard Geico: “15 minutes or less can save you…
This is part six in my seven part series on how to keep your youth ministry from collapsing. You can read from the beginning here. Without discipleship, the church is a halfway house for repeat offenders. That’s a strong statement, but I stand behind it. I’ve worked in enough churches that were unintentional in their…
This is part four in my series on building an infrastructure to support your youth ministry. You can read through from the beginning starting here. Every youth pastor’s calendar is different, based on the size and model of church, but what drives me crazy is a calendar that is random. Why did you put that…
This is part three in my series on how to keep your youth ministry from collapsing. You can start from the beginning here. I sat in the Pastor’s office after an incident where our outreach bus was pulled over by the cops because of a fight on the bus. It’s not party (or youth ministry)…
This is part one in my seven part series on pillars of youth ministry infrastructure. Stay up to date on future posts. Tents need poles. Houses need frames. Bodies need bones. Like all of the things above, youth ministry needs an infrastructure to keep from being just a pile of programs lying on the floor.…
Some youth workers don’t like their main youth meetings. In fact, preparing for their meetings make them anxious. For some, its the pressure to “get it right.” For other youth workers, they have a casual “God will do it” mentality and do not pour a ton of effort into their meeting. This attitude could be…
Bernadette Jiwa is a story telling marketer. She helps businesses tell the right story so they can see more customers, make more money and be sustainable. In some recent advice to a restaurant owner, she makes some excellent points I’d like to translate for your youth ministry. “But here’s the thing, people don’t come back…
*if you enjoyed the episode, I’d love if you stopped by itunes and left a few stars and a review. Someone asked me about a situation concerning A PDA issue in their youth ministry and thought I’d expand on that with some other youth ministry policy issues you should think through. Let me make a…
“You will know as much of God, and only as much of God, as you are willing to put into practice.” ― Eric Liddell, The Disciplines Of The Christian Life I’m fond of saying, “It’s not what you believe, it’s what you practice.” That is not to say that beliefs are not important, but without…
Most youth ministries do not have the luxury of separating their middle and high school students, which is optimum, when it comes to Sunday school, small groups or even in your main meeting. This is mostly because of not enough volunteers or not enough volunteers who want to work with middle school. The challenges with…
