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Trending This Week (8.7)
Every week we pull our favorite links from across the inter-webs. This week’s trending links include principles for recruiting volunteers, gimmicks in youth ministry, an infographic about teens and the...
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The DO’s and DON’Ts of Small Church Calendaring
I’ve heard every one of these statements while doing small-church youth ministry assessments. “We don’t have enough students to do anything, so why bother planning ahead?” “My daughter won’t go,...
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#GETBEYOND: “Christians Aren’t Cool”
I don’t know about that. I mean, I think there are couple ‘cool’ Christians out there. But, maybe from the outside looking in, that might appear to be true. After all, we’re the ones that wait till...
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Trending This Week (8.14.15)
Every week we pull our favorite links from across the inter-webs. This week’s trending links include principles for recruiting volunteers, gimmicks in youth ministry, an infographic about teens and the...
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Youth Ministry Lows
WARNING: After the Youth Ministry High Comes the Low It happens to the best of us. We get into a funk. It shouldn’t be this way – summer ministry was incredible, camp was great – the biggest and best...
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#GETBEYOND: “Christians are hypocritical”
Yep, they sure are. They’re also liars, thieves, players, bullies, sluts, druggies, cheats…you get it. But isn’t that true for every type of group? Take Christians out of the title and insert atheists,...
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Trending This Week (8.21)
Every week we pull our favorite links from across the inter-webs. This week’s trending links include a look at new teen research, a discussion about growing up African-American, helpful idea for...
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10 Tips to Get Parents to Show Up to Your Next Parent Training
To help you hit a home run with your parent training this year, the Fuller Youth Institute is debuting a new Sticky Faith Family Training five-session video curriculum. Through a compelling blend of...
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An Open Letter to Senior Pastors
NOTE: The below letter is not specific to any one pastor or a specific situation, rather, it stems from years of being a youth and associate pastor, a lay person in the church and now an elder. Senior...
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Helping Students Find Faith in the Dark
I remember the morning well. I was standing in front of my youth group about to begin my talk, and suddenly I just couldn’t do it. Life had dealt me a blow, and I felt as if I’d be faking it if I...
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Trending This Week (8.28)
Every week we pull our favorite links from across the inter-webs. This week’s trending links include 5 tips for planning fall events, the difficulty of transitions, ways to help your students share the...
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25 Quick Ideas For Your Church’s Social Media
Have you ever heard of swipe file? It’s a place where you keep ideas that you love that other people have pulled off. The concept being at some point when you need an idea, you go to your “swipe file”...
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Teens and Media: YS Idea Lab with Walt Mueller
In this YS Idea Lab, Walt Mueller sat down with Brian Aaby to share how youth workers can help their students think critically and Christianly about the media they consume. Walt shares a ton of great...
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NYWC Exhibitor Spotlight: TOMS
We’re so excited to have TOMS as on of our exhibitors at NYWC San Diego. This is a post from their team about the history of TOMS and how you can get involved in the work they are doing. Founded in...
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Trending This Week (9.4)
Every week we pull our favorite links from across the inter-webs. This week’s trending links include 6 questions to make sure your ministry outlives you, ways the church needs to rethink it’s social...
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What I Wish I Knew
I’ve been in youth ministry for 20 years. That’s still a crazy thing for me to write – I still feel sometimes like I’m just getting started and know very little. But the truth is, I’ve been living this...
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Death of the Chaperone
I see it all the time. It doesn’t matter what city I’m in—the problem is ubiquitous. It’s evident at youth ministry venues everywhere: I call it the perimeter. You’ve probably seen it, too: a room full...
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Trending This Week (9.11)
Every week we pull our favorite links from across the inter-webs. This week’s trending links include teaching teens empathy, learning from burnout, 9 people every youth workers should know, and plenty...
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Does Environment Matter?
Before my foot touched the ratty carpet of the Sunday school room, my skin began to crawl. The terrifyingly large dust bunny in the corner, an abridged-legged couch (propped by an unabridged...
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Youth Ministry Principles from Dead British Authors
G. K. Chesterton, J. R. R. Tolkien, Dorothy Sayers, and C. S. Lewis (who for the record was Irish) have become rather hipster in the land of youth ministry. We casually toss around their pithy quotes...
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