Putting Your Failures In Context

Failure is never fun but without it you’ll never learn or grow, but how do you keep your failures from drowning you in negativity and self-loathing? Fear of failure is even worse because it may mean you’ll never try or never step outside your comfort zone....
A Youth Ministry Discipleship Plan Begins With The Youth Pastor

A Youth Ministry Discipleship Plan Begins With The Youth Pastor

It breaks my heart that so many young youth pastors who enter youth ministry are not being discipled by their pastors, deacons or mature men or women of the church. Sadly, lead pastors hire youth pastors with an expectation that they have it all together without...

Crazy Calendar Activities For Your Youth Meeting

There are so many National Day of This and Something Something Day of that and it’s time youth ministries started benefitting from it. These are the best days, I think, youth ministries can take advantage of if your youth meetings fall on a Wednesday, like mine...

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...