What do you think my greatest challenge is? Church politics? Middle School kids who don’t shower? Lock In’s? Parents? All of those are challenging in their own way, but all of those are externals that I can handle. It’s what’s happening internally that is the most challenging, I’m getting older. I turn 48 in a…
Things can seem, and many times are, uneven in youth ministry. The church down the street has: a bigger budget a better youth facility a brighter influence in the community But, you’re not competing against the church down the street, you’re competing against yourself. God does not love the church down the street any more…
Jared Elrod and I sat down for a Blab.im session and talked about taking our calling seriously. You can subscribe to Jared’s YouTube channel here and mine HERE. I also broke this session down into two parts for my Youth Ministry in Motion Podcast which you can subscribe to HERE
Two weeks ago I attended the YS Team Training in Nashville Tn. Now, I have attended YS Training over the past 15 years (or longer) and have found great value in them. This particular YS Training was low key than some others I’ve attended but no less beneficial. The hosts for our training were Marv…
There’s a saying, you measure what’s important or even better. ” if it’s worth doing it’s worth measuring“. Anything could be a measuring tool. Noah used the tip of his elbow to the tip of his tallest finger to build the ark. I bet he wished he had a tape measure or at least a…
Today I offer Part II of a special guest post from my friend Paul Sheneman. You can check out his blog here and follow him @paulsheneman. You can Read Part I of the CCP HERE He has some excellent thoughts on something we all deal with, continually critical parents. Enjoy. _______________________________ Here they come…
I asked my friends on Twitter to join me for a 15 minute webinar on youth ministry and evangelism. Now, you can watch and chime in as well. Your comments are welcome below.
I am on Periscope every Monday and Friday to answer your questions about youth ministry, life, and whatever else is on your mind. Periscope is a live streaming app and different kinds of people jump in an comment. Here’s Monday’s episode. The question: How do you manage spending time with family and doing ministry? Thanks…
I want to thank Jared for his question this morning. My answer was too long to share in a tweet so I thought I’d answer his question here. You can watch Jared’s question below. @PaulTurnerToopic.twitter.com/8hT2Cfb8Ii — Jared Elrod (@jaredelrod) February 4, 2016 The podcast Jared refers to can be found below. I’d love to have…
I hear some youth workers talk about needing the right curriculum or the right kind of room to meet the needs of students, except, that’s not what they need. Start with the needs of kids, not our idea of what we think kids need God already knew what man needed and sent the solution, from…
