Each month we compile a Top Ten list for youth workers. This list represents ten articles from various sources that we believe will encourage you in your ministry to students and their families. Some give explicit instruction on…
This Sunday on Instagram, author and speaker Jessica Thompson offered a much-needed word of grace and rest. It was too good not to share with our Rooted readers: “Teen anxiety is skyrocketing and I think the church shares…
My husband has a garden in our backyard. Because friends comment on how great “my” garden looks when they catch a glimpse of its luscious produce, I feel the need to make clear that my husband is the…
Many youth workers have rightly rejected the temptation to teach moralism, or behavior modification intended to win God’s favor. Realizing that the point of Scripture is not the human actors, but the gospel itself—that Christ lived, died, and…
The Rooted conference is one that even we Rooted employees look forward to. It doesn’t feel like work. Why? Because we get to sit in the pews with an exceptional group of student leaders and have the gospel…
Every year we survey attendees after the conference to learn what we did well and where we might improve going forward. Every year we find our participants love being there as much as the Rooted staff and Steering…
Baptisms, baby showers, children’s choirs, strollers, pregnant bellies and Mother’s Day tend to be painful reminders to those who long for motherhood. The purpose for women, especially Christian women, is to be fruitful and multiply, right? For the…
If you have been around for any length of time in the youth ministry game, you have inevitably been asked the question, “How is your youth ministry going?” Most of the time, the easiest answer, besides just saying…
Parents, here’s a good one to share with your kids, especially as they start the new school year and develop the patterns that will determine how they spend their time for the next time months. But this writer…
