Welcome to part two of my series The Five Plans Every New Youth Pastor Needs To Have. You can start at the first post here, If you like. I started youth ministry by just reading my bible, praying about it and then teaching on what God showed me. There’s nothing wrong with that, it was…
Remember when, as the youth pastor, you could have a discussion with your youth ministry around hot topics and have the majority of the group agree with you or echo similar sentiments? Yep, those days are long gone to the point where many youth workers don’t want to have these conversations for fear of being…
I posted this youth ministry experience the other day, see if you can relate, Youth Ministry is…attending a dance recital where you watch 29 other dance routines before the one your student is in. and it got over 100 likes and over 70 comments. I asked others to share what youth ministry is to them.…
In my opinion, and currently my experience, the weight of a small youth ministry is much heavier than running a large ministry. I want to share five weights small youth pastors have to bear that large youth group pastors do not. The weight of loss Bearing the weight of large youth ministry is certainly a…
I was a big comic book reader. In many of the comics I read I would see an ad for Tony Atlas body building, like this. In my view, the guy/girl usually getting sand kicked in their face, in the church, is the youth pastor. The “bully” could be anyone, the pastor, a board member,…
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…
In my first job as a youth pastor, I thought I thought I “had the right” to have lunch with my students on campus. This wasn’t true, but trying telling my 22 year old self that. Regardless, I cared more about my rights than doing real ministry for and with students, teachers and administrators. Now,…
Do you ever wonder why students don’t listen to your advice? I do. I have had several encounters with students as a substitute teacher and I ask, “Why won’t they just listen to me? Don’t they know I’m trying help?” Every parent, youth pastor, teacher, or adult who works with teens has said this. It’s…
If this is your first time here. Welcome. You can check out the beginning of this series here if you like. “Engage” – Captain Picard, Star Trek Do you remember the days of walking into your middle school cafeteria and looking for sympathetic eyes of those who might let you sit at there’re table? I…
