Excuse #4 I don’t have time Really? Are you sure about that? I bet you do. Let me speak to the two kinds of youth workers who may be reading this If you are a volunteer/bi vocational youth worker You have quite a task. You have minimal amount of time to get a lesson…
I have had this idea for a while and it was time. I hated my office. It was a junk magnet and every piece of crap including balls, banners, pieces of wood, clothes pins, just name it and it wound up in my office. No more. Time to act and make this thing useful again.…
Push sounds like a harsh word, but considering how this applies A coach pushes athletes to do their best A boss pushes an employee out of their comfort zone A teacher pushes a student to open their mind to new learning Pushing isn’t wrong. Pushing is only wrong if it violates the boundaries of safety…
Kids want to share how they feel about us and the ministry they are a part of, but too often we’re scared to ask. We think, if I just keep my head down and plan lots of stuff I’ll be alright and I won’t have to listen to any criticism. Is that what you really…
How many times have you sent e-mail’s to your youth ministry volunteers but received no response? I am raising my hand. If I wanted my volunteers to open my e-mails I had to get better at crafting them or just stop sending them. Here’s my short list of changes I had t make.…
I’ve struggled with this of late. I tend to lean to the hype side of things. O.k, I ‘m a hype junkie. I want things to be big and exciting. But what happens when you drop a hype junkie into a homey youth ministry? Hype, to me, is the big worship service, big crowds, big…
You don’t know it’s happening until it’s happening, and it was happening to me. I had heard about rip currents in Florida and now I was caught in one. I was slowly being dragged out t0 sea. I started to panic, then I remembered my escape, swim parallel until you are out of it.…
This is one of my favorite Mel Gibson movies, after Mad Max, Road Warrior, and the Lethal Weapon series is Man Without A Face directed by Mel Gibson. Kidding aside, this is my favorite dramatic role by Mel Gibson. Mel Gibson plays a scarred, inwardly and outwardly, former teacher, Justin Mcleod. He’s gone into seclusion…
A movie does not need to be Christian to be about youth ministry. What makes a movie about youth ministry? There are kids who have problems. There are caring adults who push through the teens hard exterior. There is a moment in the movie that changes or at least challenges the perspective of the troubled…
Source When I think about quitting youth ministry, I often think back over movies about teachers and the difficulties they face since they don’t make movies about youth pastors. This clip is of a 60’s movie called To Sir With Love starring Sidney Pontier. Spoiler: This is the end of the movie in case you…
