If you have never seen any of my You Tube videos let me share what they are about. I have 4 Playlists on my YouTube Channel. Real Time Training: Tips and Tricks For Youth Workers – When I get an idea or think about principle that may help you, I do a quick…
We just got back from camp last week but before we took off I hand these questions out to the parents as a guide to help them disciple their kids at home. Some parents ask a ton of questions and some ask only one question, “Did you have fun?” This is a perfectly natural question,…
I do not normally post on Saturday but Ryan Latham made me. I’m just kidding. Ryan is closing out our week on Planning posts with a challenge to look back on last year to see if we can learn from the past to forge the future. Enjoy. I just got out of a meeting…
You’ve just spent a few hours or a few days planning your fall program. To make this planning time valuable you have to execute these plans otherwise it was wasted time. Today’s blog post deals with getting things done so that the plans you have made do not go to waste. Make your phone calls…
Ryan Latham brings some thoughts today about what it takes to plan. He includes a free form below as an example of what it takes for him to plan his Fall schedule. One of the major reasons that we don’t delegate is because it is so hard to explain to someone all the details of…
Guest post today from my friend and blogger Ryan Latham. I hate when kids don’t show up for stuff. it makes me feel bad but it also makes me think “What could I have donee better?” That is where Ryan comes from today. We can all make our events a little better, if we thought…
If you’re a rookie youth pastor and you’re looking up the word “intangibles”, that’s o.k.., I‘ll wait. I don’t think I knew what intangibles were either during my first few years of being the lead planner. I knew what curriculum were. I knew what calendars were. I knew what forms and paper work were, but…
I told my son the other day I was making a house visit to one of our guests. He gave me the impression that personal visits were passe’ in our digital age. His only response was “Why?”. Thus this post. I have made two videos about visiting guests. Here is the first video where…
Today’s lesson idea is brought to you by my fellow Alabamian Samuel Colesgrove, and the class he would take right now is How Do I Grow And Energize My Group. Great question, Onward. Class Notes Whenever I have gotten in trouble with by base of students, kids who are already coming, is when I leave…
Class Notes Good morning class. Yesterday we covered the topic Teens in Crisis and I hope you did your homework, well, at least George Lynch did. Thanks George, you get a gold star. The rest of you: I’ll see you after class. Today’s topic comes from Craig Fullerton, and we are looking at the issue…
