This morning I woke up with my usual Wednesday night youth program hangover. It was a long night, but last night felt longer than most because of the news I received. We are in week three of what I call the Disciple Project, three months of fine tuned Wednesdays, and this week was a SERVE…
I am using Story Cubes with my youth ministry to help kids get into story mode about sharing their faith, but there are other ways to use them in your ministry as well. Here’s the original video where I talk about Story Cubes Three Ways You Can Use Story Cubes in Your Youth Ministry 1.…
Happy Martin Luther King Day to you. On this day we remember not only a great speech but a better dream. MLK’s speech was not a list of How To’s or upcoming events MLK wanted to have in order to enact a civil rights law. He shared his dream and that’s all it took. If…
When the pain hit at 3:00 a.m. I thought I was dreaming about the time this girl kicked me in the groin in 5th grade. It was during recess and… o.k. that’s another post. I was not dreaming. I was in pain. I thought this pain felt familiar but I was not sure until…
Just about all shoot’em up games offer a story mode in their menu. In Story Mode you get to sit a while, play through the story, and find potential easter eggs (special hidden features within the game) as you go. The other option is for kids to jump right into the actions and just start blasting way online…
Happy Wednesday everyone! I hope everyone is psyched to meet with their kids tonight. I have some big new and bigger news coming. One of the big newses (newses?) I blipped in my new Real Time Training Video HERE and the other big news I’ll break at the end of the week. I tried…
Once a year I try to get to a conference or training to hone my skills an refresh my soul and this year I went to the National Youth Workers Conference in Nashville, Tn. have been to about 8-10 of the NYWC over the bast 23 years and God has used it…
This is the last post in my series on my secrets to a successful youth ministry, but it is one of the most critical for me. I am a driven individual. It’s hard for me to relax and I am my harshest critic. Over the years I’ve had to make myself slow down and enjoy…
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 of Christian living” I used to call…
Before you dive into the rest of this post, keep in ind that these are MY secrets. This post is part reflection and part “here’s a tip if you can use it.” Onward Outreach is in my blood. I have been evangelistic, from a youth ministry point of view, my whole career. Before I was…
