Welcome back! This is my fourth post in my attempt to convince you that you’re an artist. You may be a youth pastor, a small group leader, a bi-vocational youth worker who does plumbing on the side, or a volunteer youth worker. You…
Excuse # 2: “I don’t have the right team” “I’m all alone” Missed the beginning of this series? Check it out here Most of you reading this probably work in small churches and you get who you can get. Those who are committed to your weekly church services are the people God has brought…
It’s a time to be thankful, and if you’re a Youth Pastor, you should get on your knees and thank God for these four things. That there is such as thing called Youth Ministry Youth Ministry has changed and morphed over the years. Youth Ministry goes as far back as the early 1900’s with Christian…
A young man, whose taken on the role of the youth leader in his church, asked a really good question It happens. Your youth pastor leaves and you don’t have any viable candidates for the job; you don’t even have someone in your church that likes teenagers. When your youth pastor or…
Yesterday I shared the joy of missing part of a youth event and allowing my leaders, students and adults, to lead. In effect I am decentralizing leadership and working myself out of jobs I no longer want to do to focus on my new job description of creating and dreaming for the future. Does the…
Former Navy Seal, Jocko Willink, shares thoughts on ownership in the military world but it’s easily translatable to the ministry world. Here are the top 12 things he said that should matter to you if you want to create real ownership in your youth ministry. You can watch the video HERE with an option to…
I am not opposed to youth ministry, just ineffective youth ministry. I’ve heard the most asinine discussions about youth ministry, mostly heard during a staff meeting and from senior pastors in particular. I had some rough kids in one of our youth ministries and had a senior pastor say “Can’t you tell them not to…
Just a week ago I had a student tell me what she thought I got paid to do. I asked her if she’d like to call everyone in for the meeting. I was half joking. I wanted to give her a shot at ownership and leadership. Granted the task may have been outside her personality…
I happen to see this ad for a youth pastor and I don’t like it. The first half of the ad went through the entire history of the church, the progress of the city it was founded in Zzzzzzzzzzzz, Hey! Wake up, I’m writing here. See what I mean. I don’t know who they are…
Picture source Summer is a great time to gain momentum. It’s also a great time to lose it too. In my recent Mentor Me Monday video shared five small ways to shift momentum in your youth ministry. Take a look and, if you’d like to get videos like this in your inbox, go ahead and…
