If you work with teenagers and need some encouragement today, watch this video.

[ ht Greg Stier ]

Every Tuesday morning at 9:00 AM I meet with a couple other youth pastors from different churches in my community. There’s a lot to like about the group…

Normally I don’t use my blog to voice opinions about current events, but Zondervan’s press release about releasing Mark Oestreicher from Youth…

It’s really starting to anger me to hear so many stories from youth pastors about how their unhealthy, sick and twisted churches beat them until they drop…

Time Out (by Jerry Schmoyer)
My name is Nehemiah. I was a leader of the Jews. Some people think being a leader is hard. It’s really quite easy. All you…

Patti Gibbons joined us today to talk from a woman’s perspective about serving in youth ministry. With 22 years of youth ministry experience, she’s…

The following is message I received from someone who wishes to remain anonymous. My response to their question is also included below. If you have…

This fall our ministry is launching a couple new high school small groups and I want to make sure our leadership team does all it can to ensure that they are…

Last month Dan Kimball blogged about Youth Ministry 3.0 and said something I knew deep down inside somewhere, but had never struck me until he articulated…

About two years ago we had around 20 jr. highers involved in our “go deep” Bible study. It’s a two year course where they study the Old…