Russell Bowlin is the youth director at my father-in-law’s church in Texarkana, TX. While my wife and I were visiting them a couple weeks ago, we hang out…

Indoor Game; All Ages; 30 or more kids
Troy Young, student pastor at Immanuel Baptist Church in Danville, KY, sent me this game idea. I haven’t tried it…

Last week in our LIVE Youth Ministry Conversation we talked about the issues surrounding “youth group as a minichurch.” Youth ministries are…

A FREE youth ministry mentorship program launches for those who have been in youth ministry for 2 years or fewer!

Time Out (by Jerry Schmoyer)
We Americans say we love everything! We love pizza, football and our country. We love Mom, apple pie and American Idol. We love…

Thanks to Trazy Richter of Home Acres Church in Kentwood, MI, for donating a boatload of ready-to-go youth group meetings! She pretty much has your youth…

It seems odd to me that I find myself more and more having to defend why I give away all the youth ministry resources and services on this site for free…

You know the books you’d like to read one day, but they always seem to be low enough on the reading priority list that you never really get around to…

Jr. High Retreat
Whew! Had a crazy weekend! Thursday through Saturday I was on a jr. high retreat to Minneapolis (called MUUUCE) with a bunch of our jr. high…

Time Out (by Jerry Schmoyer)
The concept behind a water wheel is very interesting because there are both overshot waterwheels and undershot waterwheels. In one…