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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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
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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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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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
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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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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Isolation And Loneliness in Teenagers
Let's start with what we know Firstly, we have all been young before. While we may never have felt isolation ...
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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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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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3 BIG IDEAS FOR CONNECTING WITH YOUR STUDENTS
If you’ve listened to your students for any length of time, you might easily feel that you don’t have anything ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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