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…
I recently purchased a series of lessons and I was less than thrilled with not only how the material was formatted but the content as well. Now, before you think I’m too judgy, I write my own curriculum and sell it youth workers so I have a good idea of what youth workers are looking…
Close your summer out right Have a bonfire, testimony night, or a slide show of all your summer activities. Maybe have a special worship night or a night where everyone affirms one another and points out where they shined this summer. I share a few ideas here Plan with the end in mind Get your…
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,…
It’s a brand new year or a new season and you want to kick it off right, right? Part of the process might be to choose a theme. A theme is nothing more than a track for your ministry to run on. Your theme can be your vision. Your theme can last a month to…
We recently had a young lady join our youth ministry. She is as sweet as could be, a little shy, but I also sense an inner stength brought on by trial. This past week we kicked off our summer TRIBES and one of our tribe leaders bough shirts for the kids for like $1 a…
