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3 Tasks You Have To Add To Your Summer...
While summer is a great time to change things, it can also be a missed opportunity if you don’t develop a plan….
Flashback: Why College Students And...
What is needed to bridge that gap between the youth and the church?
Flashback: The Book Of Common Prayer Is...
Alan Jacobs explains why the nearly 500-year-old Anglican prayer book retains its influence, and why it should appeal even to (non-Anglican) evangelicals
Is It Wrong To Use Entertainment In...
“There’s a time to be spastic and there’s a time to refrain from being spastic!”
Harvard Prof: Skills Every 18 Year Old...
As we prepare our kids for the real world it is great to have some clear goals. Skills we should help teens…
How To Do Your Own Color Powder Games
looking for a summertime fun night the youth would definitely remember
4 Reasons To Write Everything In...
So useful..from keeping receipts to meeting notes, to writing sermons, songs, blog posts, to do lists, and much more
Fight Against Stagnant Student Ministry
The best way to fight against stagnant student ministry it to create anticipation.
“A Picture Says A Thousand Words..”
5 Apps For Creating Awesome Youth Ministry Graphics
Ground Rules for Counseling Students
Ministry is messy because people are broken, here are our ground rules when it comes to counseling students
8 Steps To Planning A Good Parent...
Make your meetings with parents count with these ideas
How Orange Has Change Our Children’...
There has also been a noticeable change in the young family core group in our church
The 4 Keys To A Dynamic Confirmation...
How to Create A More Enrichening Experience
Leading Change Up, Around, And...
OC16: Notes from Rachael Sibcy from Frank Bealer’s OC16 Presentation
Considering Church Planting?
18 exclusive modules of church planting and multiplication that provide practical, actionable advice, taught by leading experts
Church Planters And The Cost Of Starting...
Barna Research Releases in Leaders & Pastors
Finishing Strong In Youth Ministry
Demonstrate Courage: There is something contagious about someone who is courageous
Wisdom For The First 30 Days
The decisions you make (or don’t make) in the first 30 days have a profound effect on the rest of your ministry
Sticky Faith Launch Kit
The FYI team has developed a proven process to help you lead change in your ministry
A 17 Year-Old’s Text Message Saved The...
When you’re a seven-year-old boy being transported in a container by human traffickers, it helps to have a cell phone
Youth Worker You’re Fired!
The fired youth worker, the newly hired..who is replacing them, and those of us on the sidelines
4 Strategies to Make Next Year Great...
Summer is not just a time to rest. It’s also a great time to evaluate and plan for changes in your…
The State Of Youth Ministry Report
YOUTH SPECIALTIES and YOUTHWORKS commissioned BARNA GROUP to conduct a nationwide study of youth ministers, pastors and parents of teenagers
Flashback: Starting A Sticky Faith Youth...
10 Tips for Starting a Sticky Faith Youth Ministry from Scratch
How To Become One (Church) Family...
All of us, regardless of where we are in that transition, could use help because we never arrive
How To Navigate Transitions In Ministry
Transitions can be difficult. Even the most thought-out and well-designed transitions can be stressful
Developing A Solid Ministry Plan
Part 1 You must have a Solid Ministry Model
How Are You Measuring Success?
What are some measurable that a youth ministry can strive for?
11 Strategic Steps To Build A Thriving...
Strategic thinking gets results
Top 3 Qualities I’m looking For when I...
Someone just asked me, “Jonathan, we’re looking for a new youth pastor.
“Creating A Visitor Driven Culture”
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”
How To Improve Your Middle School...
That said, the primary audience with which you need to communicate is still the parents, or caregivers
5 Core Values Your Team Must Foster To...
Somewhere along the way, American churches have communicated that comfort trumps the Great Commission
Great Expectations: The Power of...
Make sure everyone around you knows what to expect from you, from each other, and from the church or the ministry
20 Leadership Experts Share Their Best...
Trust what these leaders say about good leadership. They are experts on the topic
11 Signs You’re Burning Out
There are a few times a year when I hit a ministry slump: January / February and then again in August
“4 Goals in Dealing with Parents”
Sometimes I feel parents can be the hardest..here are 4 goals I try to have with with a parents
Solutions To Nine Classroom Nightmares
After seeing several discipline problems, we asked the experts what they would’ve done with each challenge
The 3 Most Perplexing Discipline...
You’ve most likely encountered them and they probably left you scrambling
“When You Get Slammed By The Lead...
It never feels good getting run over by the metaphorical bus. You typically never see it coming
How Successful People Do more In A Day...
“You have the same number of hours in the day as Beyoncé.”
The Art Of Receiving Feedback In Youth...
It took me years to learn that my internal narrative was my hindrance, not my mistake or the feedback.
6 Benchmarks In Your Youth Ministry
Knowing where you are and what is ahead can keep you from quitting when it gets tough
Flashback: 10 Mistakes New Youth Pastors...
Commonly made mistakes when you’re new or old. Most of these are mistakes of “omission” rather than “commission.”
A Community Partnership: A Church And...
Church and the YMCA will serve as anchor “tenants” at this innovative, mixed-use community destination
5 Things You Should Do to Help Avoid...
KidMin leaders DO experience burnout at a high level…
How To Get Paid What You’re Worth...
The biggest donors in many churches are parents in other words, families with students in youth ministry
What’s Jethro Got To Say?
3 Pieces of Advice From Moses’ Father-In-Law
Three Thoughts On How To Design A...
A ministry strategy is how a church will accomplish the mission of making disciples
Four Essentials To A Simple Ministry...
Good strategy almost always looks simple and obvious and does not take a thick deck of PowerPoint slides to explain
10 Youth Pastor Expectations For...
You and I walk into a church with expectations of our own
20 Expectations Churches Have From Youth...
Most Youth Pastors are ill prepared to tackle all of the unsaid, assumed expectations
Five Common Reasons Church Members...
Burnout is common with so many church members. But it does not have to be
Stop Believing These Lies About...
We as leaders must deal with our struggles, just like everyone else…We are just as human as everyone else
7 Habits Of Parents Who Leave The Office...
“It’s extremely difficult if not impossible to get out of the office by 5 p.m. if you’re disorganized,”
Tips For Better Youth Ministry Games
7 Pro-Tips For Better Games In Your Youth Ministry
Book: Your First 90 Days in a New Youth...
Your First 90 Days in a New Youth Ministry: A Simple Plan for Starting Right
Book: People Skills for Youth Pastors
33 Ways to Meet More People and Make a Bigger Difference in Youth Ministry
How Is Your New Year’s Resolution?
New Year’s Street Wisdom
by Victor Manuel Labrada
Some New Year’s street wisdom for y’all from someone who lost 75 pounds, gained 40 then…
Relational Evangelism And Church...
In Canada, a mainline denomination has announced that over the next 5 years, 1000 of their buildings will..
Flashback: Sermon Preparation Process
Having a method or template for your sermon preparation can be really helpful and time-saving
Reach More Students By Doing Fewer...
“You have to do less if you want to grow more. And if you do more, chances are you will grow less.”…
Habits Of Successful People [infographic...
Good and Bad Habits of Smart People from entrepreneur magazine
How To Handle A Negative Youth Leader
Someone who’s always complaining, often against whatever you’re saying or proposing, taking others down with him or her?
Doug Fields’ Top Ten Commitments For...
Commitments…if we pursue the right ones, our lives have purpose and meaning –without them, we spiral into confusion and despair
10 Things To Include In A Parent...
Many newsletters have the throw-spaghetti-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks approach with very little intentionality
Canadian Youth Ministry Project Making...
The support I’ve received has been invaluable
Are You A Pure Youth Minister?
How to take advantage of the many hats youth ministers have to wear
How To Maximize Your Ministry In The New...
Strategic initiatives for next year
Becoming A Better Leader In 2016
Here are 4 ways to develop as a leader in 2016
Dear Church: An Open Letter From One Of...
I’m just going to tell you what’s true for me, and what I’ve seen to be true of others like me
The Heresy Of Worshiptainment
People are hungry. They are hungry for a diet of substance, not candy. More of the Word. Less of “religious toys and…
3 Ideas For Better Communication
Churches—and youth pastors in particular—have a bad rap when it comes to communication
The 9: Best Practices for Youth Ministry
Surveyed more than 6,000 lead pastors, youth pastors, paid and volunteer youth workers, parents, and teenagers
Barnabas Piper: 4 Mistakes Pastors Make...
What pastor’s kids need, and what pastors who are parents should know
Flashback: What Attracts And Keeps...
Lytch discovered three factors that consistently attracted and kept students at church.
Is Your Mindset Killing Your Ministry?
Your Move..Your job is to change your mindset. It might be the only thing that’s holding you back
Tips for Starting a Collegiate Ministry&...
Students? Are they just Christian-culture consumers or the backbone of missions mobilization for your new ministry?
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