As you’re thinking about the fall season and planning events, activities, and messages, let’s add a wrinkle, this is your last year. If you knew this was your last year at this church does it make a difference how you will plan? What about if it was your...
It came out of my mouth so fast I barely had time to think about it, “You are helping them to fail.” My friend has a videography business. He uses the best technology but has flashes back to 1992. In the conversation we were having, he recommend to...
I’ve tried my best to please kids, to a point, but youth ministry is not a democracy. Some things are not up for a vote. I don’t let kids vote what music is played in the youth hall or the van , I set the standard and give them options. I don’t let...
“People care much more for how things look than how things are.” ― Donna Lynn Hope This quote really says a lot. I’ve worked in a few shallow churches that were all about image and lacked a ton of substance. Shallowness, although, is not limited to the church. I...
This is the 12th out of 12 posts from my series of reflections on Jeff Goins new book Real Artists Don’t Starve. It really hit a nerve in my life and I wanted to express those thoughts to you, the artists, the local youth workers who work so hard to accomplish...
