Becca Heck is a veteran youth worker based in Atlanta, GA. She has served on the steering committee of Rooted Ministry and is currently working on her MDiv at Reformed Theological Seminary in Atlanta. In between classes she is a part of the Anago Partnership Co-hort in Atlanta, upskilling pastors to lead flourishing churches. You can find her on the weekends teaching at various trainings, conferences, and retreats.
By God’s sovereign grace, we are both called and necessary for the fullness of his plans to come to fruition.
Through building relationships with emotional stewardship, empathy, and patience, the Church can show up for Gen Z with hope, love, and purpose.
All ministers would tell you that loneliness is a part of their story, yet I think youth ministry holds a unique place on the perpetual loneliness shelf.
As youth ministers we are often the first to see the workings of the Holy Spirit in the lives of our students, calling them to be future Nathans and Deborahs and Esthers.
Be faithful to the calling you have received. That faithfulness will combat the jealousy of being compared and will provide you courage as you lead students to look to Jesus more than to human leadership.
“Hey, how is it going?” “Are you hanging in there with all this crazy stuff going on?” I cannot tell you how many times I repeated these two questions during the month of March. By April, our new…
