3 Questions To Ask Before You Write Your Next Message
These past few weeks I’ve been giving my volunteer ministers a shot at presenting the message. When they asked me how long the message should go I...
Leadership, Communication, Ministry Health, Spiritual Health & YM Systems and Structures
These past few weeks I’ve been giving my volunteer ministers a shot at presenting the message. When they asked me how long the message should go I...
Excuse me if I struggle with this post my back is sore from being thrown under a bus. At a meeting last night it was revealed that I was solely...
We’ve asked some of our high school seniors to give a testimony to our 5th and 6th graders explaining how they discovered their God given potential...
Do you have that friend who always seems a little bitter…you know pessimistic? You ask, “How are you doing?” and they respond, “Things could be...
A hidden hobby of mine is calligraphy. It’s one that I haven’t used in a while and while my day to day penmanship doesn’t reflect my skill, it’s...
They’re back! The college students are coming back and asking me, “What’s up?” This is good because they feel that this church is home, it’s a place...
I’m sure I’m not the only youth minister that had the Rapture come up in their small group discussion this past week. Didn’t matter if I wanted to...
I’ll be honest I was not always a fan of small groups for teens, it was too hard to please everyone and they got too cliquey. With that said, I gave…
Yesterday’s post was all about writer’s block and how to bust through it, which in turn sparked a great idea for this post (irony?), “Why we as youth...
If you are like me you have a lot of writing to do, whether it’s a blog post or a message for you ministry, you feel as if you are…
I don’t get it, the forecast was 70% chance of rain showers and thunderstorms, no way I was going to play kickball with my 8th grade guys. So I...
We’re about to head into the home stretch before our summer schedule takes off. This summer we keep meeting consistently; however, our format is a...