Welcome to part four of my series on The 5 Plans Every New Youth Pastor Needs. You can read about the first plan I think is important here. Every new youth pastor needs a meeting plan. When I first started planning youth meetings I was pretty gung-ho about evangelism and every meeting I had was…
When kids come to your youth ministry could it be mistaken for something else? Could it be mistaken for a club for only the cool kids? Could it be mistaken for a YMCA with great activities? Could it be mistaken for a TED talk where kids just sit and listen? Could it be mistaken for…
I love this commercial. It tells me that we can completely misunderstand how something works. In this case Facebook, posting pictures and unfriending. When it come to youth meetings and youth ministry I feel like saying, to just about everyone, “This is not how any of this works”. Or better still “This is not how…
I was eating today at a Japanese restaurant. I hadn’t planned on eating at the grill for one simple reason: I had seen all the chefs tricks before. It made me think, how often do students say the same thing about your program : “I’ve see this trick before”. It could be that you’ve beat…
