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The Best Fundraisers Ever!
Interested in a fundraiser that raises $50-60 and hour per person? One thought first: I am in Israel right now. If the Promised Land is anything, it is temperamental. The people of Israel had to depend...
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10-Second Tip: Criteria for a Good Game
At the NATIONAL YOUTH WORKERS CONVENTION, we stopped youth workers from all across the U.S. and asked them to share a 10-second youth ministry tip. THE 10-SECOND TIP: Make sure your game meets this one...
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Partnering with Parents without Adding MORE
“You have what tonight?” “How much money do you need?” “Why didn’t I know about this before now?” These are all questions I’ve asked my own kid. Being a parent is hard and keeping track of all their...
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Crisis: Now in Three Flavors
In 1938, a European living in China wrote: “The Chinese term for crisis is ‘danger-opportunity’. Without the danger there cannot arise the opportunity.” [1] Crisis = Danger + Opportunity 危機 How good a...
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Increasing Biblical Literacy Among Students
For youth workers, one of our greatest passions is getting students to engage with the Word of God. Imagine a world where every student (or even half our students) read their Bibles and allowed the...
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Conflict Creates Character
This post originally appeared on The YouSchool Blog and we thought it was so wonderful that we wanted to share it too! What do Simba, Harry Potter and Katniss Everdeen have in common? Their story is a...
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We’ve all been the “New Kid”
I stared in horror as a gaggle of youth group kids ignored the new kids in the room. Several things went though my mind: What will these new students think about our group? My students just don’t get...
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Caring for Your Leaders on Trips
Camps, retreats, and mission trips can be huge sacrifices for our volunteer leaders. They are leaving behind families, taking personal vacation time, and giving up their own lives to invest in the...
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Rape Culture in the Church
We know that Sabrena’s story below represents just one perspective of an incredibly difficult but necessary conversation for all youth workers and church leaders. If you would like to offer another...
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Prayers for Orlando
Our hearts break for all the victims of the shooting in Orlando and their families. We always struggle to find the right words during tragedies like this. In an effort to equip you as a youth worker,...
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Becoming a Self-aware Youth Worker: YS Idea Lab with Tony Jacobs
Tony Jacobs is a 25-year veteran youth worker and one of the rock-star YS Coaches you can spend time with at the National Youth Workers Convention. In this YS Idea Lab, Tony shares a few of the key...
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Living in a State of Mission
God’s Word is for all people in all places. The need for the gospel is just as important for our neighbors who don’t know Jesus as it is for a tribe in the middle of a country we can’t pronounce....
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All Things New: Evaluating and Refreshing Your Youth Ministry
The church secretary put a large box of papers on my desk one Monday morning and said, “I found these old youth ministry resources when we were cleaning out the storage unit.” That’s how it started....
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What I Learned from Our Church’s First Week on Snapchat
This post originally appeared on DARREL’S BLOG and we thought it was so wonderful that we wanted to share it too! Snapchat. That word means a lot of different things to a lot of people. To some, it’s...
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Five Things Every College-Bound Student Should Know
Upon graduation, our students need more than a copy of Jesus in my Dorm Room or Campus Prayers for New Freshmen—they need good, solid, been-there-done-that advice. So here—as a public service—is a...
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10-Second Tip: Listen and Ask “Why?”
At the NATIONAL YOUTH WORKERS CONVENTION, we stopped youth workers from all across the U.S. and asked them to share a 10-second youth ministry tip. THE 10-SECOND TIP: Listen, to not be afraid to ask...
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Supporting Students in Tragedy
What is trauma and what does it mean to survive and heal from it? This is a poignant question as we enter tornado season or as we look at violence in cities like Chicago. Tragedy will naturally...
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9 Ideas for Getting Students to Turn Forms In On Time
This post originally appeared on TIM’S BLOG and we thought it was so wonderful that we wanted to share it too! It’s the cry of most every youth pastor… “How do I get kids to turn in their registration...
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Ministering Through Anxiety
He comes alongside us when we go through hard times, and before you know it, he brings us alongside someone else who is going through hard times so that we can be there for that person just as God was...
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12 Questions to Break The Ice
Maybe you have a lot of new students showing up to youth group this summer. Or maybe there are just days that you have a hard time getting students to speak up. Whatever the case may be, it’s always...
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