Welcome! If you’re new here and are not a subscriber, subscribe here and get the Youth Ministry Round Up in your inbox. Good morning awesome people, I love milestones, they tell me if I’m making progress. The next YMRU will be #50! This weeks marks the milestone of writing newsletters to youth workers for 10…
Welcome! If you’re new here and are not a subscriber, subscribe here and get the Youth Ministry Round Up in your inbox. Good day everyone! I hope you had a great weekend and a fantastic Mothers Day and you’re excited for the week ahead. I know you have a busy summer season coming up and…
News: In 60 days I will no longer be a full time youth pastor. I have mixed feelings about it. It’s hard to leave, but I know God is leading me to spend more time ministering to awesome people like you. If you’re at all interested in supporting my efforts, you can leave a tip here…
If I see one post over and over again it’s What are you reading. I like post like these because I am and avid reader and I love to share what I am getting from the books I am reading. I love it so much, I thought I’d do a video a day on my…
I like a busy youth ministry. I like when kids come in and have a job; that’s why I don’t do everything. I leave things undone on purpose so kids will have something to do when they get to the church. I believe in the economy of youth ministry. Youth Ministries are like small cities.…
Brian Aaby wrote post challenging youth workers to answer five questions about their youth ministry. Most of the time I see questions like these and I give them a passing glance and move on, but not today. Today I thought I’d pick up the five question gauntlet he threw down and answer, to the best…
At the first of the year I posted 14 questions that were on my “to do” list as far as digging deeper into why we do what we do and how can we get better as a youth ministry. Well, it’s the end of the year and it’s time to see how well I did…
Taking everything popular culture offers and trying to translate it into spiritual terms is an example of a youth ministry taking it’s cues from pop culture. Just because we see a You Tube Video or a popular teen movie doesn’t mean we need to talk about it, show it, or try to create a…
If you have read though many of my posts, you know I am a big proponent of student-led ministry. This is good in theory, but it requires, if they are new to the concept, hard work to retrain their mindset and the mindset of the church who might have certain expectations for you. In…
I examined my week and I decided I was spending too much time with kids. Is that possible? I think it is. I saw kids on Sunday and Wednesday, I had a student leadership meeting on Monday, I was taking homeschool kids to lunch, Facbooking, and on and on. I don’t think kids need us…
