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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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Leading Well in 2023

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

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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Help Teens Keep Their Faith After High School

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?

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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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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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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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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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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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

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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