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Trending This Week (April 3)
Every week we pull our favorite links from across the inter-webs. This week’s trending links include a conversation about mentoring young leaders, relationship help for busy parents, how technology is...
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The Importance of Vulnerability
In recent years, the Lord has been deepening my understanding of vulnerability: what it is, what it isn’t and how it serves as essential soil for meaningful relationships to grow. As youth ministers,...
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Are You Emotionally Ready For The Spring Drop Off?
It is that time of year. The most dreaded time of year, Spring! While the weather is great, and baseball season is upon us, the lives of our students are beginning to disengage from the programmatic...
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The Best Question in Youth Ministry
If you’re a youth minister you’re no stranger to questions from parents: “What time do the kids get back from the mission trip?” “When do Wednesday nights start back from Christmas Break?” “What is...
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Trending This Week (April 10)
Every week we pull our favorite links from across the inter-webs. This week’s trending links include how to create a welcoming culture within your student leaders, new research results on teens and...
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5 Springtime Reminders Every Youth Pastor Needs
Spring is in the air. The trees and flowers are beginning to bloom. The air is filled with the growing aroma of middle school boys that comes with the emergence of warmer weather. Ahh…Youth ministry in...
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Appreciating The Volunteer
Over the last year or so, I’ve entered a new world in youth ministry—the world of the volunteer. Since leaving my paid role in the local church to begin serving youth workers in a denominational role,...
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Trending This Week (April 17)
Every week we pull our favorite links from across the inter-webs. This week’s trending links include reminders about communication in youth ministry, protecting you and your ministry, a look at YouNow...
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Finding Motivation In Slow Seasons
There are seasons in ministry, just like in life. Fall brings new students and fresh energy. Christmas is a special time of its own. January can bring new volunteers and a chance to train your leaders....
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Building A Great Youth Ministry Team
You too may be a coffee addict if you know exactly which Starbucks you’d name for each of the following categories: Most likely to be quiet Best one to work in (AKA- the one with the most wall outlets...
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Trending This Week (4.24)
Every week we pull our favorite links from across the inter-webs. This week’s trending links include thoughts for parents, ways to build momentum in your ministry, 3 voices that need to speak into new...
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Helping Seniors Transition
Let’s be real… Sometimes graduation can be a youth pastor’s best friend. On occasion there are certain students who need to graduate and move on and they just need other people to love them for a...
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Posts from #YSTT15 in Nashville, Houston, and Kansas City
. You’ve still got time to join us for YS Team Training in Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis! Bring your ministry team to join in on the conversations! [View the story...
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How to Use the Summer to Innovate and Incubate
If you are a fan of Google, you probably know that the company encourages engineers to spend up to 20 percent of their time on side projects even if the projects are outside of the engineers’ assigned...
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Trending This Week (5.1)
Every week we pull our favorite links from across the inter-webs. This week’s trending links include resources for parents to survive the summer, consuming media the right way, connecting students with...
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Stop Graduating From Confirmation
In some ways, Confirmation is the culmination of a journey of faith, as students confirm the vows taken for them in baptism and claim responsibility for their own Christian faith. Yet, Confirmation is...
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4 Things The Church Can Do Better On Social Media
I’ve been following Darrel Girardier’s blog for the last couple months and his website has quickly become one of my most recommended resources for churches looking to do more with their social media....
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Trending This Week (5.8)
Every week we pull our favorite links from across the inter-webs. This week’s trending links include knowing when to cut out irrelevant practices, student leadership basics, what graduating seniors can...
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Ministry Synergy
What if I told you that you could work less and accomplish more? What if I told you that you could go home from the office today satisfied, knowing you’ve accomplished all you could today? What if I...
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Evaluating The Right Things
There is a movie I cannot stop watching. If it is on television I will be glued to it regardless of where I pick it up in the flow of movie. I watched it while it made its circuit on all the movie...
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