Compassion Fatigue – Recognize the Signs
You love this job. You love the people with whom you get to work, and you love the Lord! So ...
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Lead Well This Year
We are in another year of ministry. And whether this is your first, fifth, fifteenth, or fiftieth, each year can ...
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GET READY FOR TOUGH QUESTIONS
“Can God create a rock so heavy that He can’t move it?” If you’ve ever had a student ask you ...
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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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Difficulty And Beauty Held Together
Ministry is full of difficult things. The demands, the expectations, the responsibilities, the unknowns, and that to-do list. You know, ...
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Helping Teens Keep Their Faith After High School
What Can We Do? Four years ago when I started in my position as youth minister at my current church, ...
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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
We Need To Be Prepared In Part 1 of Isolation and Loneliness in Teenagers, we shared normal stressors in the ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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