When it comes to partnering with parents in the discipleship of students…where do I even start? This question has characterized much of my experience in student ministry. Despite being zealous to partner with parents in ministry for some…
When it comes to ministry, especially ministry to youth, there seems to be a constant battle against the powers of hell over the souls of our students. To put it another way, seeing students come in and…
Perhaps the most neglected area of youth work is ministry to fathers.
We’ve scoured youth ministry blogs and news sites to find the most helpful articles from March that will strengthen and encourage your ministry to students. Most (but not all) of these articles come from a Christian perspective and…
Several years ago, I was challenged by this powerful sentence from Dan Allender’s book Leading with a Limp: ”A good leader will, in time, disappoint everyone.” That simple, yet poignant sentence changed me. For years as a youth pastor,…
What if we really believed Jesus when he said, “It is finished”? What if we actually lived out of the reality that we have been justified, and we no longer have to justify ourselves? This is completely counter-cultural….
Partnering with parents is a critical piece of youth ministry, but it can often be incredibly challenging. Either we just don’t know how, or we feel like who are we to speak with any real authority to parents?…
I think messed up. I think I failed. I don’t know what I am doing. These are some thoughts that have frequently come up throughout my time in youth ministry. Times when I feel that I’m unprepared, or…
Partnering with parents is a critical piece of youth ministry, but it can often be incredibly challenging. Either we just don’t know how, or we feel like who are we to speak with any real authority to parents?…
