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Four Strategic Decisions for Summer Ministry Blog banner

Four Strategic Decisions For Summer Ministry

Ministry in the summer can fly by. Summer can feel like a whirlwind from ending the school year, celebrating graduations, ...
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Organization for the Overwhelmed

Organization For The Overwhelmed

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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That Happened At Church: Great Feedback

That Happened At Church: Great Feedback

Have you ever experienced feedback? Even the best feedback can be challenging to receive. Now imagine receiving that feedback on ...
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Is It Ok To Struggle With Your Faith?

Is It Ok To Struggle With Your Faith?

Short answer, yes. It is perfectly normal to struggle with some doubts about your faith. The more thoughtful answer is… ...
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Isolation & Loneliness In Teenagers Part 2

Isolation & Loneliness in Teenagers, Part 2

We Need To Be Prepared In Part 1 of Isolation and Loneliness in Teenagers, we shared normal stressors in the ...
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Five Ways To Prepare For Next Year

Five Ways To Prepare For Next Year

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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Making change in ministry blog post

Making Change In Ministry

You know the urge. You look around the youth room, your program, or even the team and think - I ...
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Long-Range Planning The Right Way

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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Ministry Planning For Success & Not Burnout

Did you know that poor planning can actually lead to ministry burnout, conflict, and a failing ministry? Planning is more ...
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Hiring a new youth or children's minister blog post

Hiring A New Youth Or Children’s Minister

What if you are hiring the wrong person? Where do we find quality candidates that will fit our church's culture ...
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3 Reasons You Will See Staff Changes in 2021

3 Reasons You Will See Staff Changes In 2021

I can see the end in sight, the light at the end of the tunnel. The vaccine has arrived, and ...
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5 Ways To Personally Navigate This Season

How will you continue to navigate this season? March 8 was the first Sunday that many churches throughout the world ...
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Spirituality is a struggle

When Spirituality Is A Struggle

Right now, spirituality is a struggle for many of us. I’ve recently been following Jon Steingard, former lead singer of ...
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Faces on Zoom Calls: Blank Screens and ceiling fans - why don't young people show their faces on Zoom.

Faces On Zoom: Blank Screens And Ceiling Fans

We’ve all done it, right? You put time, effort, and energy into prepping a virtual lesson for the youth group ...
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Thinking about changing churches? Here are 5 reasons you may want to change churches.

5 Reasons To Change Churches

We have all been there as youth ministers… attempting to discern when and why to change churches. Hopefully, these ideas will help ...
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WHAT DO YOUTH WANT?

It’s time to set the annual calendar for the youth ministry. Who do you invite to the meeting- church pastor, ...
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Give Yourself A Break

I do not know who needs to hear this but give yourself a break. You are doing the best you ...
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Schools are out: protecting the most vulnerable children

Schools Are Out: Protecting The Most Vulnerable

Whether schools are out for summer break, or as we are experiencing in this current situation where a pandemic has ...
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Summer Of Opportunity

“Losing what we thought our summer would be, just sucks!” I said that to a student a few days ago ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Why You Can’t Reach Parents

What would our ministry look like if we could truly partner with parents in the way that we would like? ...
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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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YOU MAY BE YOUR MINISTRY’S WORST ENEMY – PART 2

You may be your ministry’s worst enemy. A few weeks ago, in part one, we discussed one way you may be ...
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ONE WAY TO COUNTER A TOXIC GROUP CULTURE

Toxic people create toxic groups and quickly derail your mission. As leaders, we need to learn how to overcome a ...
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3 WAYS TO INVEST IN THE MOST ANXIOUS GENERATION

No one seems able to agree about the exact dates for Generation Z. The youngest members may have been born ...
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FINDING YOUR WAY WHEN YOU FEEL LOST AND DEFEATED IN MINISTRY

Regardless of how you got into youth ministry, I think there is one thing you and I have in common ...
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5 TYPES OF LEADERS YOU NEED ON YOUR TEAM

You know that you need a team of leaders. To get this team, you will have to recruit people. It ...
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