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Top 5 Mistakes When Creating a Shirt for Your Youth Group
We’re so excited to have Deo Volente Industries as on of our exhibitors at NYWC SAN DIEGO. This is a post from their team with some helpful tips for your youth ministry T-shirts. We have all been...
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Trending This Week (9.18)
Every week we pull our favorite links from across the inter-webs. This week’s trending links include leadership models for your team, student leadership basics, the theology of Google autocomplete, and...
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5 Things I Tell Parents About Technology and Their Kids (Part 1)
Recently, I had the opportunity to speak at a few conferences on the subject of technology, social media and how it’s affecting our kids and what parents can do about it. I was surprised and delighted...
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5 Things I Tell Parents About Technology and Their Kids (Part 2)
In part one of this series, we covered the technical advances we’ve made (smaller devices, unlimited internet and internet everywhere) and how the web has changed as well (1.0, 2.0 and 3.0). Now that...
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Trending This Week (9.25)
Every week we pull our favorite links from across the inter-webs. This week’s trending links include ideas to help your lessons stick, characteristics of healthy discipleship, some interesting thoughts...
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Youth Leader: 4 To-Do’s For Today
Can you imagine any of the following being said of you as a youth worker? “Heather’s talks aren’t very good” (this is followed by either “there isn’t enough God-stuff/Scripture” or “they are too...
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Helping Kids Navigate Deep Theological Waters
We pulled this post from the YS Vault because it’s such a perfect fit for the conversations we’ll be having at the National Youth Workers Convention this year. There’s still time to join us! Register...
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Praying For The Refugee Crisis With The #YouthTakeover Tweets
Four child refugees from Syria took over the @UNICEF account to tell their stories. Share these tweets with your small group, pray with them, and use it as a way to start a conversation about the...
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Trending This Week (10.2)
Every week we pull our favorite links from across the inter-webs. This week’s trending links include a look at coping with suicide in your youth group, an open challenge for youth pastors, 7 lies youth...
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Ministering to the Needs of Parents
Working with parents can be challenging! Whether you’re working with students who have Christian parents or those with parents who have never connected with the church in their life, understanding how...
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Beyond Pat Answers
We pulled this post from the YS Vault because it’s such a perfect fit for the conversations we’ll be having at the National Youth Workers Convention this year. There’s still time to join us! Register...
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NYWC San Diego Recap
Over the weekend, youth workers rallied together for NYWC San Diego to gather new ideas, be encouraged, and challenge youth ministry’s status quo. There was a lot that we could celebrate, but here are...
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3 Tips to Keeping Connected with Your Kids… without Becoming That Creepy Parent
This is a shared post from Jonathan Mckee—one of our NYWC Louisville speakers. Check out the original post HERE and the seminars that Jonathan will be leading in Louisville HERE. A brand new study...
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Trending This Week (10.16)
Every week we pull our favorite links from across the inter-webs. This week’s trending links include leadership advice, what you should know about cyberbullying, sexism and the Bible, and plenty of...
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Weeds that Clutter Your Life and Ministry
We have a small back yard. Really small. Virtually no back yard, really. But we do have a narrow strip of side yard. It is fenced. And private. But it had been completely neglected by previous owners...
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7 Lies Youth Pastors Have To Overcome
I have lied to myself more times than I can count. False beliefs make their way into my heart, and they affect my actions and sabotage my future—and I know this is true of other youth pastors as well....
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Trending This Week (10.23)
Every week we pull our favorite links from across the inter-webs. This week’s trending links include how youth doubt is different than we expect, investing in your volunteers, the power of your...
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Quick Tips For Small Groups
I’m of the belief that there are some who are just naturally intuitive in how to lead a small group, but a much larger portion of the youth ministry leadership population need some training and...
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10 Tips to Boost Your Emergency Fund
We’re so excited to have Brightpeak Financial as on of our exhibitors at NYWC Louisville. This is a post from their team with some helpful tips for your emergency fund, which we all know is a huge need...
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Recruiting and Retaining Leaders in Youth Ministry
People are often surprised to hear that I actually enjoy hanging out with junior high students. I’m frequently told that I must have a “special” heart—most people I talk to are intimidated by the...
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