I am a bit of a mad scientist. I like to mix and match and test things. My favorite question is “What would happen if…”. I think I get this, partially, from a quote my old camp director Dick Stevens who used to describe his camp as “laboratory...
I’ve learned a lot of things the hard way. These “secrets” I am sharing with you were secrets to me at the time I discovered them and required a generous amount of butt kicking for me to embrace them. Somehow I got it in my head that my job was to be...
Reaching the lost is important but so is reaching the church kid. We don’t always think this way but church kids have as much need to be reached as the lost. Both kids are in isolated worlds. There have been times where having a single focus on reaching the lost...
This is my third post in my Secrets to A Successful Youth Ministry, you can read post #2 here Outreach is in my blood. Before I was a full time youth pastor I had shared Christ on the streets during Mardi Gra., on the Orlando OBT strip, and on the streets of Phoenix...
When I first took a role in youth ministry, I really did think everything was my job. To often I worked beyond my job description to meet some unmet need. I stepped over lines and assumed roles that were never mine to take. I had no boundaries. If the youth ministry...
