Imagine you’re at work and receive an email saying you’ve won a free movie combo from your local movie theater, complete with ticket, popcorn, and drink. You show up with your date and find out the only movie…
Student Pastors are tired creatures, often fiddling with knobs – like attendance numbers, testimonies, sermon-prep, who got prayed for, who raised their hand, or who asked us for advice – all in effort to work the machine of…
Despite the pains and struggles of youth ministry, my understanding of theology, discipleship, and evangelism would not be the same without it.
We’ve scoured youth ministry blogs and news sites to find the most helpful articles from May that will strengthen and encourage your ministry to students. We believe there are nuggets of wisdom to glean from each of these…
A true leader isn’t someone who sees themselves as “having all the power,” but rather a person who knows the One who does. Sometimes, the torrent of life can seem too overwhelming and chaotic for even the best…
The day I first learned my daughter was battling bulimia, we were together in the car for the first time since she had gotten her drivers license the month before. While I had been so ready for her…
The text message came around 9:30 at night. “Peter has been arrested.” I stepped away from watching a student’s soccer game to contact Peter’s mom. Susan was actually quite calm. “The police said they had been keeping an…
In this series, “Promises of Scripture,” we asked Youth Ministers one simple question: “What is a scriptural promise that you burn to communicate to your students?” Read other articles in this series here. Life is full of uncomfortable…
No matter how passionate we are to proclaim the gospel, if we want to have a ministry that bears fruit, we must learn how to become a vibrant and enthusiastic part of the leadership and staff.
