The one thing I don’t love about the Holidays is missing meetings with our students. Missing one meeting during Thanksgiving and two weeks during Christmas can create a momentum challenge to a youth group. I guess it’s all in the way you look at it....
I love this commercial. It tells me that we can completely misunderstand how something works. In this case Facebook, posting pictures and unfriending. When it come to youth meetings and youth ministry I feel like saying, to just about everyone, “This is not how...
In the podcast, I mentioned something about out-growing your church and I was asked to explain what I meant. Here was my response “Let me first say that outgrowing a church does not mean that I have become more spiritual than others. I am speaking more to...
I know boring and youth ministry should not be in the same sentence but it was necessary. I think the perception for many years has been that the leader of a vibrant, growing, youth ministry has to be young, attractive, and talented. I am none of those things and...
I just read an interesting article on mentoring from Mike Butcher (@mikebutcher) over on TechCrunch about finding mentors and thought the same advice can apply to young youth workers. Mike did a fast poll of some of his social media folks receiving their advice on...
