Is Your Mission Big Enough?

Is Your Mission Big Enough?

This is the third post in my series about evaluating your youth ministry volunteers. If you do not happen to have a team, this would be great questions to ask yourself if you feel your own commitment slacking. Small church youth ministries struggle because the mission...
What’s Your Passion Level?

What’s Your Passion Level?

This is part two in my series on the seven questions to re-evaltuate your youth ministry volunteers. In my last post, I shared the first question: Who has the leverage? My next question is, “What’s your passion level?” Let me offer a caveat before I...
5 Questions To Evaluate Your Volunteers

5 Questions To Evaluate Your Volunteers

I’ve had great volunteers. They’ve worked hard with me. Some were with me for a year, some almost a decade. Part of my role is to evaluate and re-evaluate them to see if they need to make a shift in the ministry laterally to another position or if they...
Youth Ministry Excuse #3 But I’m Not…

Youth Ministry Excuse #3 But I’m Not…

I’m not __________________ (Good enough, smart enough, etc.) A poor self image is an incubator for excuses. Consider Gideon, the Lord came to him and wanted to choose him for great things. He responded with My clan is the weakestI am the least God always sees...
Excuses In Youth Ministry #2: I Don’t Have The Right Team

Excuses In Youth Ministry #2: I Don’t Have The Right Team

Excuse # 2:   “I don’t have the right team” “I’m all alone” Missed the beginning of this series? Check it out here Most of you reading this probably work in small churches and you get who you can get. Those who are committed to your...