Welcome! If you’re new here and are not a subscriber, subscribe here and get the Youth Ministry Round Up in your inbox. Hey everyone! I had a major issue with my website this weekend and it deleted the last few posts I made, one of which was this issues Round Up. So, I apologize for…
Since my retirement from full time youth pastoring and trying to make a career of speaking, coaching and writing; I’ve been trying to keep my youth ministry skills fresh. One way I’ve chosen to do that is through substitute teaching at a middle school. Let me begin by saying, teachers do not get paid enough.…
This is my sixth, and last, reflection on the book Growing With by Kara Powell and Steve Argue. You can read my reflections from the beginning here. Currently, I’m 50 years old and have started attending a new church. After 30 years a youth pastor and associate pastors, this is a new experience for me. I…
Texas Coach Tom Herman said something interesting after the Texas Longhorns beat the Georgia Bulldogs in the 2019 Sugar Bowl, “This locker room finally became player led instead of coach fed” This is a powerful statement about how discipleship in our youth ministries should look. Coach fed must happen at the beginning, but it should…
The real threat to your youth ministry isn’t outside the church, it’s inside. The world doesn’t care if churches have youth who have meetings The world doesn’t care if kids go to camps or retreats for spiritual renewal. The world has an entirely different expectation for our youth ministry and it does not include number…
Welcome! If you’re new here and are not a subscriber, subscribe here and get the Youth Ministry Round Up in your inbox. Hey All! As many of you know, I left my position as Youth Pastor back in May. After speaking with a former student on Thanksgiving day, I feel even better about my decision.…
Welcome! If you’re new here, and are not a subscriber, subscribe here and get the Youth Ministry Round Up in your inbox. Happy Friday all! We are a week away from Thanksgiving and I hope you know that I am thankful for all of you! I told my wife the other day that I think…
I attended the TRIBE conference this past weekend, hosted by Jeff Goins, and a speaker used an illustration I had heard before. He began with, “What is the the most valuable land in the world?” Several possible answers included the oil rich lands of Saudi Arabia, the gold mines of South Africa, the real estate…
Hey Round Up Reader, I listened to a podcast called Six Pixels of Separation. One of the things I love about this podcast is that the host, Mitch Joel, starts the podcast with “who are you and what do you do?”. Mitch uses no fancy roll in or hype machine to build up the…
I was listening to Jeff Goins’ podcast The Portfolio Life and he asked cookbook author Sonja Overhiser about how she writes here cook books, she said, ” I try to think about the kitchen the other person is cooking in and their range of experience (rookie to veteran) I am writing to” This is such…
