Intentionally designed to stir your youth ministry imagination and assist you in discerning God’s leading for your unique expression of youth ministry

Casey Palicki is a senior and serves as co-leader of the New Vision WAVE Team. She has been involved with Vision 2 Hear for many years

By Brad Howell | Associate director of Fuller Seminary’s Northern California campus.

Currently, 70% of Africans are under the age of 30. By 2040, 50% of the world’s youth will be African, most of whom will be women and girls

Ed Stetzer: Will students with actual beliefs be allowed to have organizations on campus?

80-85% of churches are…..

God’s Beauty for the Bored, Busy, and Depressed

What do you do with a broken heart?

What No One Tells You & What I Wish Someone Had Told Me

“Teenagers are a valuable part of our churches” and that is why it takes a calling from God to do his work in the role of a youth pastor

We need to help parents realize that just waiting until arriving at church to worship isn’t enough, for themselves and for their kids

More than half of college students (55%) admit they hide their finances and spending information from Mom Dad

Over 2.6 million single fathers in the US and they reported in 2012 there were over 2 million stay-at-home dads

Fourteen-year-old Florida teen Lily Marie Hartwell, who was a fan of the cult horror character

Deadmau5 isn’t backing down, and has told Disney to lawyer up

Puberty may biologically wire teens to stay up late and wake up late—which means that forcing them to bed earlier won’t do much good

Clothes aren’t as important to me,” She probably spends more on technology because she likes to “stay connected,”

by Jim Liebelt

Mashable

Teenagers in Britain shows that many think porn leads to unrealistic or damaging views about sex

Rutgers University has found that social media doesn’t encourage discussion on controversial subjects. It may, in fact, cause people to stay quiet

…And Why I Stay In It

Understanding, promoting and cheering for one another’s ministry is a sign of health, maturity and holistic mentality

…without diplomacy and tact only causes us to get burned-out, worn out, or thrown out.

Here are the latest stats about our teens use their phones, from dawn till dusk

More importantly, though, we need to be discussing these things with our kids

The Top 18

A snapshot of the 5-hour Intensive on “Sticky Faith: How to Help Teens Maintain Their Faith Long-Term.”

Youth workers take advantage Jonathan McKee’s FREE resource, it is the best I have seen in a long time

Controversial Game of Thrones Nude Scene Is HAPPENING BUT NOT IN CHURCH

Popularity, availability… how about the morality of these shows?

Here is a tip or memory trick for your students

Photos of Fads From Around the U.S.

by Josh Griffin

#1.Connect the change to the overall mission and vision…

Their audience are children and those children are being raised to believe their value is in how pretty they are and how many guys want them

A fun Rock ‘n’ Roll parable with an upbeat, inspiring, message about finding purpose, revealing secrets, and experiencing redemption

11-year-old boy, who attends an online school was asked to remove a picture of a gun from his digital profile..virtual guns are banned from virtual school

When she saw a display recommending books to read after the soft-pornographic book “After Fifty Shades of Grey.”

11 Signs of Doom

By Greg Stier

A new report puts the price of educating the thousands of illegal immigrant children who recently crossed into the U.S

In 2012, just over 10 percent of high school seniors said they had smoked pot before driving at least once in the prior two weeks

Beware…just because it’s up in the cloud doesn’t mean it can’t come raining back to Earth

I thought it would be fun to think of a few cultural touchstones related to the incoming high school freshman

Bestselling New Testament volumes are made available in electronic form search every page for a passage or topic in only seconds

Most parents who divorce are in denial about how it affects their kids

Dave Rozman

Top entrepreneurs use three simple rules when building up their network of professional contacts

5 Things to Know About Your Future Hires

Dare to be Bright: a systenatic, holistic approach to studying forexams and doing better at school

They loved the 90s TV and Movies..“letting kids be kids” more educational and wholesome. Family, lessons, morals,

by Chris Mucha

Over and over I have to embrace these humbling ideas as I try to lead the people around me. Here they are…

If you do not know how to deliver a message to teenagers you’ll have a hard time influencing and impacting them

by Chris Marchland

There are roles a youth worker plays in the life of our teenagers that can be essential to our students spiritual development

Here’s a list of some of the more common mistakes rookie youth workers make, and some thoughts on how to avoid them

How can we begin to think about making this happen?

Teens are seeking cheaper clothes with no logos that they can use to assemble their own unique outfits

A 19-year-old college student from Georgia secretly filmed a confrontation with his Christian parents who disapproved of him being gay

Black children with fathers without a high school diploma, 50% parental incarceration by 14, compared to 7% of white children

For students entering college this fall in the Class of 2018 they were…

Teens typically need around nine-and-one-quarter hours of sleep a night, according to the National Sleep Foundation

This book is covered in grace…“Mom, Dad, Stepmom, Stepdad, Grandma, or Grandpa, please know this: Jesus is bigger than your mistakes too.”

We need to stop talking, acting..like thugs, and start talking, acting…like men. Stop making the conscious decision to fit the description.”

When it comes to holding themselves accountable for fostering black-on-black violence, Hollywood’s gangstas have adopted a systematic code of silence

Taco Bell launched a campaign this week in which anyone who finds one of 11 specific $1 bills can win a $10,000 gift card

Hulk Statue Creates A Stir During Flood News Coverage

“We are tired of seeing young men of all descriptions… walking around with their pants down and their underwear showing,”

Property can be seized by police without requiring a conviction — or even a criminal charge, in some cases — and the proceeds have padded the Philadelphia District Attorney’s

Branded New Video

Book Review – “Teaching Teenagers in a Post-Christian World”
Bill Nance

Noted Surgeon Wants Young Athletes to Stay Healthy

…is not safe and may result in addiction and neurocognitive damage, especially in youth

As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes

Children and teenagers spend more than seven and a half hours a day using smartphones, computers, televisions and other electronic screens

The Dad was pushing his broken-down car with his two sons back in 2012 when Jose Banda, a drunken driver, fatally struck the two boys

by Adam McLane

Marko: Our middle school grade son seems to have no real friendships…Is this normal?

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“effectively forces states down a path toward a national curriculum” in violation of the state sovereignty clause in the Constitution and federal..

Books: The Bestsellers Americans Are (and Aren’t) Reading

It’s a far cry from traditional TV

Fanta’s Vine-Based Comedy Series Draws Teens

Have you ever asked your own kids for parenting advice?

The young homeless man who accompanied Miley Cyrus to the MTV Video Music Awards has a warrant out for his arrest in Oregon

by Christopher Wesley

by Josh Griffin

Nearly half (46%) maintain that public schools have further declined in the last five years

Our culture has literally grown numb to the growing sexualization of our girls

By Andrew Hale

famous scene…Lena Headey — to walk out of the Church of St. Nicholas onto the streets naked

The Complete List of Primetime Winners

Conservatives, on the other hand, are continuously forced to examine their worldview based on what more liberal professors throw their way

Twitter reacts to singer’s ‘double standard’ I don’t think beyonce is or should be considered the modern age face of feminism.

Tomlin added young girls are “too sexually available”..contemporary culture is too sexualized