Time Out (by Jerry Schmoyer)
Jesus, the master story teller, told a story about a man who held a banquet but those who were invited didn’t come so he…

Last Monday was our first MinistryQuestions.com LIVE YM Talk show where we collectively answered questions and debates that were posted to the site by other…

Simply Youth Ministry is giving away several Christmas PowerPoint games and Christmas backgrounds for free!
On their Freebie Games page, you can download three…

Sometimes youth workers fulfill personal needs by substituting healthy adult relationships for those with teens.

Time Out (by Jerry Schmoyer)
Gaining recognition is fairly easy in life and ministry. What isn’t easy is succeeding in the things that really matter. We…

Last Monday the youth pastor at NewSpring Community Church, Brad Cooper, joined us for LIVE YM Talk to discuss our topic of, “Leading a team of volunteer…

A couple months ago Joshua Griffin posted a big, yellow smiley face they used for a teaching series at Saddleback. I looked at it and thought it could work…

We have a couple exciting LIVE YM Talks coming up! If you haven’t joined us yet on Mondays at 2:00 PM, it’s always a great conversation among youth…

Time Out (by Jerry Schmoyer)
We’ve all heard many analogies of pastors (and youth pastors) being shepherds of their sheep. In the Fall of 1988, in the…

A couple weeks ago I published an article that was written collaboratively by myself and several other youth workers titled, Signs That You Should Back Away…