I have two freebies for you guys this week! The first one is a listing of lots of worship praise songs in PowerPoint. If you’re like me, I usually type up…

Does ministry make you feel maxed out, tired and drained? Here are some ideas on how to reduce stress in ministry and avoid burnout.

“No matter what decision I make, I’m going to make someone mad.” Then what? Here’s some practical advice.

NOTE: I hope you guys enjoy Q&As here at Life In Student Ministry because I’ve had a backlog of them queued up for a while. I’m going to…

Yesterday in our LIVE Youth Ministry Conversation Russell Martin lead a discussion on worship in youth group. Many issues came up, including youth bands…

See You At The Pole is coming up this Wednesday for the U.S. and Canada! Bill Allison of Cadre Ministries is giving away a free PDF training guide to help you…

Indoor Game; All Ages; 30 or more kids
This game was submitted by Ish Engle, youth pastor at First Christian Church of Cushing, Oklahoma.
There are seven boxes…

Last month the youth worker network in my community hosted a training conference for all of our adult youth leaders and anyone else in our surrounding community…

In a couple weeks I’m speaking at a retreat for sr. pastors who serve here in the northwest. For the first session they asked me to teach sr. pastors how…

It seems like most youth pastors and sr. pastors think that college students or young married couples make the best youth workers, usually because, “The…