Tag Archive for youth ministry
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…
Beyond The Scrolling….Belonging
Seeing the deeper longings behind teenagers and social media
What Teenagers Need From Us More Than...
Our kids need a wall of support that doesn’t withdraw or abandon them. Even when they withdraw from us—
Book: Growing With
Access a wealth of tools to help you nurture faith and family relationships when you preorder Growing With
How Hard It Is to Parent a Teen?
I need to be honest about how there are times when I don’t even recognize my own children and how lonely that…
Helping Student Athletes Win On And Off...
How to Help Your Student Athletes Win On and Off the Field
Live Your Life Offline, Pope Tells Young...
“It is not enough to be connected all day long. To feel respected and asked to get involved, is greater than simply…
Gospel-Centered Parenting And...
Continue to expose and free us from the faith-less, grace-less, law-heavy ways we parent, Father. Free us from over-stressing our kids and…
Podcast For Parents: Mom, Dad, What’s...
Parents who want to give their kids a healthy view of sex centered on the gospel of Jesus Christ
Book Review: Mom, Dad, What’s Sex? Mom...
Giving Your Kids a Gospel-Centered View of Sex and Our Culture is a treasure
Netflix’s “Sex Education”
…is either addressing or exploiting—you decide—the subject that isn’t talked about much in most homes
When Soccer Trumps Youth Group
You know the drill. You get super fired up for a student ministry event your team has been planning….
“EIGHTH GRADE” FILM
“EIGHTH GRADE” FILM: A YOUTHWORKER ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
2019 Youth Pastor Compensation Report
This is the second year that Dan has published the results of his massive, online survey of youth worker compensation
Teens Who Attend Church Often Stop Going...
Two-thirds of American Christian teenagers who regularly attend worship at a Protestant congregation for at least a year quit going for at…
Family Relationships Over Ministery
Because I am in ministry, I’ve gotten my vocation mixed up with my relationships in Marriage, Children and God
Teaching Your Kids Self Control
“Choosing to do what you should do, not what you want to do.”
Join The Tech-Wise Family Challenge
So over the 21 days of The Tech-Wise Family Challenge, we’ll all get to do some
Resolutions and goals
So I have to ask, What are your youth ministry goals this year?
Flashback: Make Your Goals Happen This...
Dream about what could and should be happening in your ministry.
3 REVERSE CULTURE TRENDS FOR 2019
Pop culture tends to change at the speed of light. As soon as we begin to take hold of a rising trend,…
WHAT YOUTH MINISTRY IS NOT ABOUT
I will have been in youth ministry for 40 years. Wisdom, I believe, teaches us what to value and not value.
MOST POPULAR BLOG POSTS FROM 2018
The #ysblog went through and found the most popular blog posts from 2018. Wondering what the top posts were from 2018? Check…
A Very Social Christmas
A humorous reminder that our connectedness can sometimes get in the way of actually connecting. This Christmas, don’t be social, be social
Christmas “Time flies”
Don’t miss it. You will blink. . . and they will be older. And that’s why our tree this year reminds me…
The Presence Of God In Our Anxiety
“Studies indicate that when we suffer mental illness alone, the results can be tragic, even horrific. When we suffer inside
From The Gen Z Perspective
Conversations between my peers are often peppered with jokes of self-harm, anorexia, and suicide
Why Are Young People Having So Little...
Despite the easing of taboos and the rise of hookup apps, Americans are in the midst of a sex recession
Family Famous For Cringeworthy Christmas...
Mike Bergeron and his wife Laura, both 45, started making the funny cards in 2003 to poke fun at their friends
The Parenting Marathon
Eight Ways to Persevere in the Parenting Marathon
Belong: Religious Upbringing Better For...
Children who had a religious upbringing are likely to be healthier and have a higher degree of well-being in early adulthood than…
How To Speak To Middle Schoolers
Concerned about translating the gospel into the (foreign, treacherous) culture of Jr High
Changes In Youth Ministry
How To Make Successful Changes In Youth Ministry
Why ‘Passing On The Faith’ Fails Our...
The church needs to be—a community that calls our young adults into the body, not as passive recipients, but as active members
Why Many Youth Pastors Don’t Make It&...
I believe the following four principles capture a biblically grounded vision of what ministry to youth should entail
The Landscape Of Youth Ministry
Here are 5 ways that youth ministry has changed since 1995
Teen Loneliness
Much of our modern life leaves us less connected with people and more connected to simulations of them
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