The need for students to be regarded as valuable members in the body of Christ has only grown, as many of our students have been plagued with loneliness and isolation in these months of quarantine.
Of Rooted’s five pillars of youth ministry, partnering with parents is the one which strikes me as the easiest to take for granted. Youth pastors have to intentionally think and work with the other four in mind. Relational…
“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…
The past few months of stay-at-home orders have had a way of surfacing idols and insecurities. Faced with the task of moving our weekly youth group meetings online, I felt totally daunted. I worried I wasn’t entertaining enough,…
I stood in front of a group of students last week during an outdoor Bible study gathering. Something came out of my mouth that was not in the script: “2020 has been the worst year for our nation…
“Gospel-centered youth ministry is great in theory, but is it effective at building lifelong disciples?” To be honest, this is a question I’ve asked with increasing frequency, especially as our typical way of doing ministry has been sidelined….
Even something as innocent as a Father’s Day church service can exacerbate what is already a loss felt every day.
Allow me to state the obvious: it has been a long time since we have met together with our churches and with the students in our ministries. I am sure that none of us, as we prepared our…
In many of our communities, the warm weather and slowly relaxing guidelines surrounding COVID-19 will provide an opportunity to meet with students in small groups. We asked Rooted writers to share their developing plans for summer ministry with…
