Have you noticed the chaos that followed the announcement by the College Football Playoff selection committee? One school feels snubbed, ...
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All around the country, folks are preparing for a successful new year of school. Buses are running their practice routes, ...
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For many of us, VBS 2023 is over. We've loved seeing volunteers serve, loads of kids on campus, and many ...
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There was a time when I wondered, "Am I doing ministry right?" This feeling went on for years. Yes, I ...
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If you’re one of the Youth, Children’s, or Family Ministers out there whose church provides funding for continuing education, you ...
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Matt, who had been serving as a summer youth ministry intern, was excited to share a devotion with his middle ...
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Many of us will wrap up our school year within the next few weeks. I have always appreciated the transition ...
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Have you ever sat in bad interviews? These happen all the time in our churches. But it doesn't have to ...
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Love it or loathe it, Vacation Bible School looms on our advance planning calendar. Maybe you’re new to ministry altogether ...
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How often do we overlook the potential of young people? Do you know what I mean? It can be easy ...
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What would our ministry look like if we could truly partner with parents in the way that we would like? ...
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You love this job. You love the people with whom you get to work, and you love the Lord! So ...
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We are in another year of ministry. And whether this is your first, fifth, fifteenth, or fiftieth, each year can ...
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It's nearing the end of the calendar year. Some of us are overly busy in Advent and Christmas services, while ...
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Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is ...
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For many of us, our summer ministry has ended. You may have led an incredible VBS, inspiring mission trip, or ...
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Ministry in the summer can fly by. Summer can feel like a whirlwind from ending the school year, celebrating graduations, ...
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We've all had it happen. You’re leading a group of teens on a weekend retreat. Let’s say you’ve got 25 ...
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Have you ever double-booked yourself? Or maybe had a complaint from the church finance team because you've lost receipts again? ...
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What Can We Do? Four years ago when I started in my position as youth minister at my current church, ...
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We Need To Be Prepared In Part 1 of Isolation and Loneliness in Teenagers, we shared normal stressors in the ...
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Not Just Okay - It's Necessary Whether we realize it or not, it's not just okay, but necessary to hold ...
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Let's start with what we know Firstly, we have all been young before. While we may never have felt isolation ...
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It can be a difficult task to make a difference in a student’s life. Sometimes, it can feel like there ...
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You know the urge. You look around the youth room, your program, or even the team and think - I ...
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Have you ever thought that ownership and talents go together? Perhaps the teens in your youth group are just looking ...
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Have you ever tried to do long-range planning, only to discover you get too busy to put that plan into ...
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Did you know that poor planning can actually lead to ministry burnout, conflict, and a failing ministry? Planning is more ...
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If you’ve listened to your students for any length of time, you might easily feel that you don’t have anything ...
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“Losing what we thought our summer would be, just sucks!” I said that to a student a few days ago ...
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It has been several weeks of creating ways to do ministry differently. I imagine by now you have problem-solved some ...
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You are in social distancing, so should ministry stop? Absolutely not! Here are 7 ways to minister in times of ...
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Sometimes it is good to stop doing that - by that, I mean what you have always done or what ...
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A fresh new year. Blank pages on a calendar. This year, it’s even a fresh new decade! What better time ...
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It is probably safe to assume that you would like to see your youth ministry grow. No matter who you ...
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Toxic people create toxic groups and quickly derail your mission. As leaders, we need to learn how to overcome a ...
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You know that you need a team of leaders. To get this team, you will have to recruit people. It ...
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