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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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Rules Are Broken & Consequences Are Necessary

When Rules Are Broken & Consequences Are Necessary

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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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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Benefits & Dangers of Relationships With Teens & Their Families

Relationships With Teens & Families

When I look back on my different ministry experiences, I don’t think about the books I read, or the conferences ...
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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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Holding Teens Accountable

Should We Hold Teens Accountable To Their Faith

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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Did You Forget About Parents of Teens?

I’ve made a lot of mistakes in youth ministry—a lot! Many of my mistakes came when I first started as ...
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students are not connecting

Four Reasons Your Student Are Not Connecting

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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Parent communiction

Teens, Parents, and Youth Ministry Communication

Teenagers tend to naturally leave their parents in the dark. Should we do the same as Youth Ministers? And how ...
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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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Engaging The Talents Of Teens

Have you ever thought that ownership and talents go together? Perhaps the teens in your youth group are just looking ...
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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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Must Have Youth Ministry Hats

Must-Have Youth Ministry Hats

When my son Paul was in first grade, we moved from the Washington, DC. area, to Pittsburgh, PA. I had ...
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Imposter Syndrome and Ministry

5 Ways To Break Through Imposter Syndrome

Imposter Syndrome. This is the name that is given to that overwhelming feeling that you are a fake, a fraud ...
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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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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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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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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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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 Youth Ministry in 2020

It is probably safe to assume that you would like to see your youth ministry grow. No matter who you ...
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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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WHY AND HOW TO BEGIN A YOUTH PASTOR NETWORK

You are a rare breed. Not many people would give up their Saturday to spend it with middle school students, ...
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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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YOU MAY BE YOUR MINISTRY’S WORST ENEMY

You could possibly be the worst enemy of your youth ministry, volunteer team, and students. As leaders, this is never ...
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