Tag Archive for youth ministry
How To Revitalize Your Youth Ministry...
5 Programming Ideas to Revitalize Your Ministry Calendar
8 Steps To Planning A Good Parent...
Share resources about youth culture, parenting tips and resources for them to be a more effective parent. Whatever you are reading (you…
A 13-Month Plan Your Kids’ Parents...
When I was young I planned without regard for a typical family’s calendar and budget
3 Leadership Secrets from Bohemian...
If your goal is to better engage students, check out my three observations below
Os Guinness: Moving Forward In A Post...
What’s really at stake in this moment, and how to become part of the solution, not part of a deepening cultural problem.
Connecting with your child
The BEST model for life-changing conversation so you, the caring adult, can connect to the heart of your child
Mentoring Millennials
Here’s a list of what works and doesn’t work when mentoring millennials
Book: A Different College Experience
The gospel redeems the college experience. It tells us there is another way
Family Finds Hidden Camera livestreaming...
The scan unearthed a camera, and subsequently a live feed. From the angle of the video, the family tracked down the camera
How To Detect Hidden Cameras
You might need this if your youth ministry rents out an Airbnb
Detect Hidden Surveillance Cameras With...
You might need this if your youth ministry rents out an Airbnb
Lead Yourself First
Here is a hard truth that we must face: we can’t lead anyone further than we have gone ourselves. It’s hard because,…
Lawnmower Parents And Youthministry
Being in youthministry means putting up with a whole lot of lawnmower parents
Getting Over Yourself In Ministry
Whether you find yourself in a position of being all about yourself or feel the temptation to be all about yourself, here…
Tell Your Children About Gender
We do everyone a favor if we recognize that many cultural norms are just that—cultural, not biblical
How To Talk To Toung People About Doubt
A teenager or young adult is going to ask you a tough question about God that you can’t answer…
Building Credibility With Parents
Parents will be your greatest supporters or your biggest hurdle
Netflix Acquired More Than Dodgeball
More Than Dodgeball starring Doug Fields and Josh Griffin of Download Youth Ministry, in more than 190 countries
What I Misunderstood About Grief
Jesus will recover all of the fallout from Adam and Eve’s demise
Belonging And Community The Secret Sauce...
Instead of creating a space for awesome games and great decor, we need to create space for deep belonging and real community
Youth Workers Crossing The Line
Youth worker. . . you are just one bad decision away from being a headline.
Religious ‘Nones’ Now As Big...
The number of religious “nones” in the United States are now statistically equal than the number of evangelicals, according to a political…
More Young People Don’t Have A...
Just over half of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 – 51 percent of them – said they do not…
Book: So The Next Generation Will Know
Preparing Young Christians in a Challenging World
Helping Kids Hear Truth In A World...
“I wish I had spent less time trying to block out the lies and more time focusing on the truth.”
How To Teach Kids To Tell The Truth
We desire for our children to tell us the truth, especially when confessing their sin. But how can we teach them to be…
Are Christian Guys An Endangered Species...
Why is it every time I teach at a youth leadership convention, the audience is comprised of 75% females?…
5 Alarming Porn Stats For youth
Pornography is out there, and for everyone’s safety, you need to warn them of the impending danger
Marv Penner’s 3 Words To Describe Your...
How to do youth ministry right. It means working with parents instead of working for them!
Easy Spiritual Assessment Tools For Your...
A realistic insight into how your youth view their faith
How To Lead When You’re Not In Charge
One of the greatest myths of leadership is that you must be in charge in order to lead
The Importance Of Greeting Students
Welcoming teenagers as they walk in the door is one of my most important ministry practices
How “Showing Up” Helps Your Ministry
Contact work is vital to your ministry. If you and your leaders do a lot of it, it will yield great relationship…
Building Credibility With Parents
Parents will be your greatest supporters or your biggest hurdle
Growing With; An Interview With Kara...
In this episode, Ben Trueblood and Mary Margaret West, talk with Kara Powell about her new book: Growingwith
5 Ways To Beat The Springtime Attendance...
You had a great fall and the winter months but, spring attendance falls and you are wondering what happened?
How VBS Shapes Our Culture And The...
VBS is needed now more than ever, at a time when more and more families have no access to the gospel
It’s Time To Get To Know Generation Z.
How are we at reaching students today where they are at, on their digital devices?
The StudentMinistry Podcast: YouthPastor...
Amazing resource for youth pastors regarding compensation, raise, taxes, housing allowance, and other pieces of the financial side of ministry.
Preparing Students For The Digital...
3 Realities Pastors and Parents Should Consider To Prepare Students For The Digital World
Book Review: On Preaching
On Preaching — Personal & Pastoral Insights for the Preparation & Practice of Preaching
Study: Churches Exclude Children with...
Children with the greatest need for a supportive community were the most likely to feel unwelcome
Silence Is A Hindrance In Kids Faith...
I actually would allow my kids more freedom in their high school years to explore and express their questions about faith
What Millennials Think About Evangelism
“millennials the most evangelism-adverse generation on record,”?
The Benefits Of Intergenerational...
The long-term perspective of the older saints encourages the younger generation to continue in faithfulness and service.
Book: Mentoring The Next Generation
Provides a real-world and pro-active strategy to practically connect the generations in your church
Growing Kids, Growing Parents
Kara Powell and Steven Argue describe how to parent adolescent and young adult children
How To Help Your Family Grow Together...
Guest Post By Kara Powell And Steve Argue
Youth Workers Tell Your Parents About...
4 Things Youth Workers Would Tell Parents About Teenagers, Social Media, and Technology
Dear High School Me…..Eating...
What My Daughter Would Say to Her Younger Self NoEating Disorder
UK Book: Decades Of Cuts: The..Dismantle...
Decades of cuts: the policies that dismantle youth work – a new book by Bernard Davies
Advice For Parents Of Little Kids
20 Tips I wish I could have given parents of teens before their kids were 4
Taming Negative Thoughts On Parenting
Here are three tools I’ve discovered for policing my thought life
Flashback: How Serving Changes Kids
What’s the number one priority our parents list?
Goal Setting & Implementation
It’s that time of the year in which we take a good look at our ministry and begin to work through our…
6 Responses To Social Media And Your...
The impact of the digital world is so powerful and pervasive that it’s almost impossible for most of us to keep up
Social Media And Mental Health
We talk about the relationship between social media and mental health. Here’s a few resources if you want to explore more
Books: The Parent And Family Ministry...
Here’s a list of some of our favorite books for church leaders that are building a family ministry in their church.
Flashback: 3 Reminders For Our College...
1.Remember Who You Are. 2. Be Mindful of your Soul Holes. 3. Unite Yourself to the Body
Why Home Is the Best Location For Youth...
They met in homes and discipleship started booming. Kids began growing, getting connected, inviting more friends. Numbers grew.
How Home Groups Can Help Your Student...
Taditional youth group night was becoming less effective, we did also notice that home groups were becoming more effective
Priorities: Reaching The Next Generation...
According to a new survey of 1,000 Protestant pastors by Nashville-based LifeWay Research
13 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don&...
Give up the unhealthy — yet popular — parenting practices that are robbing kids of mental strength
12 Mainstream Contributors To Sexual...
Watch the reveal of the 2019 Dirty Dozen List
What It Will Take To Reach Kids With The...
When it comes to the emerging generations, we are to “get out of our offices and onto the sidewalks.”
Evangelism: Generation Why?
Churches worry they can’t reach millennials and Gen Z with questions
Evangelism: Conversation Kit
Conversation Kits help parents and caring adults talk with their teens about important topics
Parents: 5 Reasons To Keep Your Kids In...
Why it’s important for teens to be involved in a youth group
4 Views On Talking To Teenagers About...
It reflects the thoughts, experiences, and practical advice of four in-the-trenches youth workers, who have spent years having these conversations
Book: ‘In The Closet Of The...
Eighty per cent of priests working at the Vatican are gay, although not necessarily sexually active
Abuse Of Faith
Investigation reveals 700 victims of southern Baptist sexual abuse over 20 years
Why We Ought To Reimagine Youth Ministry
If we don’t reach our kids with the gospel by middle school, we have already lost our chance
Witches of the social media generation
Meet three witches who believe the social media era is transforming the way people view witchcraft
Flashback: Witches Outnumber...
Wicca, Paganism Growing ‘Astronomically’
Book: Meet Generation Z
Understanding and Reaching the New Post-Christian World
Gen Z, “Snackable Content” &...
Here are some things our teams come up with and ministering to GenZ
Going Deeper….
“If you know me, you know I…. but if you reallyknew me, you’d know…”I gave them an example
The Source For Youthministry And Parents...
We’ve amped up the amount of new content we’re adding to each site! Mobile friendly and easier to navigate
The Benefits Of Continuing With Ministry...
Success in student ministry doesn’t always happen while they are students in your program. It often happens years later. That is why…
Bivocational Youth Ministry
Being a bivocational youth ministry worker comes with a unique set of challenges—like two bosses, two workplace
“How do I build my Ministry If I Can...
“How did you steward what I gave you faithfully?”
Infringing Desires
By: George Lockhart
“Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’”
Matthew…
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