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What About VBS
What About VBS?
VBS is a time-honored tradition in churches, and for many, is their single largest event of the year. VBS helps ...
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Making Sense of Ministry episode 06 on trauma and grief
06: Kelly Minter on Trauma and Grief That We Are All Experiencing, and How To Help Students, Children and Families
In this episode, Kelly Minter, a therapist, 20-year youth ministry veteran, and author of our popular articles on grief joins ...
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What if students are struggling more than the norm blog article.
What If Students Are Struggling More Than The “Norm?”
In youth ministry, your mission is to promote the spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical well-being of all youth under your ...
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Grief In Times Of Trauma
In part one, Dealing With Grief, we discussed how we can understand grief. As we move into part two of ...
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Making Sense of Ministry Episode 5 - cancel summer camp and vbs?
05: Special Episode Part Two on Ministry During a Pandemic, How Do We Measure Success, and Should We Cancel Summer Camp or VBS
In part two of this two-part discussion, a team of YMI experts (Steve Schneeberger, Kirsten Knox, Annette Johnson, and Brian ...
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Dealing With Grief - An article
Dealing With Grief
There is an emotion in the midst of everything I do these days. It is like a cloud, heavy and ...
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04: Special Episode Part One on Social Distancing, Covid-19, and What Parents, Students, and Children Really Need
In part one of this two-part discussion, a team of YMI experts (Steve Schneeberger, Kirsten Knox, Annette Johnson, and Brian ...
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HOW TO ENGAGE STUDENTS BEYOND ZOOM
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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5 Ways to Stay Hopeful, Fruitful, And Productive in Social Distancing Ministry
5 WAYS TO STAY HOPEFUL, FRUITFUL, AND PRODUCTIVE IN SOCIAL DISTANCING MINISTRY
Whether you are serving in youth ministry, children's ministry, or family ministry, you are now doing ministry differently. The challenges ...
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Making Sense of Ministry podcast guest Savannah Rogers on the often overlooked resource
03: Savannah Rogers on Recruiting Adult Leaders and Tapping Into an Often Overlooked Resource
In this episode, Savannah Rogers discusses the often overlooked resource in our churches and how she has recruited adult leaders ...
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woman thinks about ministry in times of social distancing.
7 Ways To Minister In Times Of Social Distancing
You are in social distancing, so should ministry stop? Absolutely not! Here are 7 ways to minister in times of ...
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5 Ways to Hurt Your Ministry In Times of Social Distancing
It feels that the Covid-19 situation has rapidly escalated, leaving us in ministry unsure about our roles. To help you ...
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Making Sense of Ministry guest photo of Mike Toluba
02: Mike Toluba on Teaching Students Basic Life Skills, Mental Health in College, and the Role of Campus Ministry
In this episode, Mike Toluba discusses how our ministries can prepare students for college and the answer may just surprise ...
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Making Sense of Ministry Podcast interview of Kirsten Knox - understand Generation Z
Episode 01: Kirsten Knox on Understanding Gen Z, Empathy, and Small to Medium Size Church Youth Ministry
In this episode, Kirsten Knox discusses the traits of Generation Z and their greatest challenges. Kirsten shares why empathy may ...
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man thinks about what he needs to stop doing that in ministry.
Stop Doing That
Sometimes it is good to stop doing that - by that, I mean what you have always done or what ...
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3 Ways To Grow Your Children’s Ministry In 2020
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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