Atypical Ministers: Why You Need Them
I never saw picking up crushed ping pong balls off the floor in my job description, but it’s okay. One of the biggest hits of our 5th/6th grade...
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This Is Your Most Important Ministry As A Youth Minister
I’ve been stepping in and helping out in the children’s programming while our Director of Children’s Ministry on maternity leave. Yesterday I...
Christopher Wesley
Jan 30, 2011
I’m Okay With Being Discontent
The last two weeks have been very hard for me at work. With our Children’s Minister on maternity leave, I’m stepping in to make sure that things go...
Christopher Wesley
Jan 27, 2011
You Need To Learn How To Change
Last night I watched the State of the Union and it made me realize moving an entire nation to change is difficult. It’s difficult because there are...
Christopher Wesley
Jan 26, 2011
5 Questions To Ask The Newbies
If you were to leave your ministry and then come back in with a fresh set of eyes what would you see? Would you see confusion and chaos? Would you…
Christopher Wesley
Jan 25, 2011
How I Am Hypocritical
I have all these great ideas rolling around in my head, I just don’t have the mouth to communicate them all clearly. There’s a point where I find...
Christopher Wesley
Jan 24, 2011
How To Make Every Student Feel Welcomed
The other day I went downtown to a meeting. The only guy that I knew would be at the meeting wasn’t there yet, so when I walked in all I…
Christopher Wesley
Jan 23, 2011
The Most Important Day Of Your Week
Recently Doug Fields had a post on his blog, “SUNDAY: Draining day of Ministry or Energizing?”, where he polled his readers asking them which day of...
Christopher Wesley
Jan 20, 2011
Why No One Is Investing In Your Ministry
Someone once told me that no one reads an email that they have to scroll down to read…she was talking about my emails. It’s true, if you can’t...
Christopher Wesley
Jan 19, 2011
Two Positions I Want To Create For Student Ministry
I’ve been on an interesting journey in regards to the structure of my church’s staff. When I was first hired it was as the Director of Middle School...
Christopher Wesley
Jan 18, 2011
3 Signs of Underutilized Ministers
I come from a family that enjoys left overs. In fact there are certain meals that I like to make in bulk, so that I can enjoy them for lunch…
Christopher Wesley
Jan 17, 2011
What Are You Horrible At Doing?
One thing that I’m horrible at doing is hanging shelves. There’s the rule of thumb measure twice cut once…when it comes to hanging shelves I measure...
Christopher Wesley
Jan 16, 2011