
3 Reasons You Will See Staff Changes In 2021
I can see the end in sight, the light at the end of the tunnel. The vaccine has arrived, and ...
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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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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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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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Faces On Zoom: Blank Screens And Ceiling Fans
We’ve all done it, right? You put time, effort, and energy into prepping a virtual lesson for the youth group ...
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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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Schools Are Out: Protecting The Most Vulnerable
Whether schools are out for summer break, or as we are experiencing in this current situation where a pandemic has ...
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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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What If Students Are Struggling More Than The “Norm?”
In youth ministry, your mission is to promote the spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical well-being of all youth under your ...
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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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Dealing With Grief
There is an emotion in the midst of everything I do these days. It is like a cloud, heavy and ...
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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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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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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 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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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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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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3 WAYS TO INVEST IN THE MOST ANXIOUS GENERATION
No one seems able to agree about the exact dates for Generation Z. The youngest members may have been born ...
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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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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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