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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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