Summer heat challenges youth group dress codes
In an email to a couple youth pastors earlier this week, Matt Silver brought up a great question:
Do you guys do anything to address any kind of wardrobe…
Handling criticism in ministry
I know this is about a week old, but I just now went through my RSS reader and caught up with this post by Perry Noble. He did an excellent job of summarizing…
Virginia Tech shootings: Small group video and discussion sheet
I just put together a quick video and small group discussion sheet for youth group tonight. Here it is for download in case any of your groups can benefit from…
Practical ideas for building relationships with your youth group
The comments of my earlier post, “Why do kids come to youth group?” generated a lot of good practical ideas for building relationships with the kids…
M.O.V.E. 2007 video
Last weekend Dana and I took two girls from our youth group to M.O.V.E. 2007 (Mission Outreach Venture Experience), an event where Evangelical Covenant youth…
Why do kids come to youth group?
Do they come to learn? To have a good time? To worship? To avoid homework?
Craig Groeschel, pastor of Lifechurch.tv, posted some reasons why people come to…
Brainstorming for a Student Leadership Team
There are several students in my new youth ministry who are great leaders and man, I wanna make sure they get all the training and experience they need to serve…
10 things that should be banned from youth ministry
I was thinking about this earlier and thought it might be fun to come up with a list of things that should be banned from youth ministry.
Sweatpants with…
Defining success in youth ministry
Colossians 4:5, “Make the most of every opportunity.”
There’s been a lot of buzz spinning around the blogosphere lately about defining success…
100 questions to ask parents
Here’s a list of some great questions to ask parents. Not sure what context I’d use them for, but it’s a good link to bookmark and hold on to…