Youth Ministry
Tyra Banks Sex Survey
Since you’re new here, you may want to take an extra minute to subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!So, I am sure by now you have heard about this survey numerous times. In case you haven’t though check out this video:
What do you think? Do you think that this survey reflects [...]
Youth Specialties One Day
Mark your calendars now! This is the one youth worker training event that you will not want to miss and you will definitly want to make sure the other adults on your youth ministry team are there!
Some of you have been to the Youth Specialties CORE, one day training events in the past, well now [...]
Shaped By The Story
One of the great challenges in youth ministry is in helping students to truly engage with Scripture, to immerse themselves in the Story of God and to work through how their own life story is connected to God’s Story. Michael Novelli proposes an ancient/innovative approach to guiding students through this process in
his new book, [...]
A Response
Yesterday Sherri took the time to write out a well thought out comment to my post here on a little of my frustration in youth ministry. There are a bunch of issues that she mentions so I thought that instead of trying to discuss all of them in the comments section, I would simply write [...]
The Frustration
In case you missed it, yesterday I posted a portion of an email that I received from a para-church ministry that really frustrated me.
You may be asking, “What’s you problem with that? Isn’t it great to introduce kids to Jesus?”
Well, my short answer is “Yes.” The longer answer has to do with the entire [...]
Youth Ministry 2.0
In honor of being mentioned over on Marko’s blog today regarding his Youth Ministry 3.0 I thought that I would point out my growing frustration with YM 2.0.
Yesterday I found the following message, from a para-church ministry in my inbox:
What do these, and Viking meals, athletic team meeting, gutters filled with ice [...]
Youth Ministry 3.0
My initial reaction after reading Youth Ministry 3.0: “Oh crap!”
Yes, that’s the truth because Marko (Mark Oestreicher, President of Youth Specialties) crystallized a general unrest that I had been feeling with my youth ministry over the past couple years.
Mark takes some time before getting into the guts of youth ministry 3.0 because it is important for [...]
NYWC - Pittsburgh
OK, so my bloggin of this event was REALLY lame! Since I was not in the mood to write out my posts and then go later to post them, I was pretty bummed that there was no wireless access within the convention center.
Anyway, after thinking back through all that I saw and experienced I wanted [...]
Keeping Parents Connected (from camp)
One of the great struggles in taking kids to camp is helping parents to feel that their child is safe AND that they have some sort of connection to what happened at camp.
The safe aspect applies to both jr. high & sr. high but mostly for jr. high and especially to those in 6th & [...]
The Allure of #s
No matter what area of ministry you work in or are involved with there is always a strong pull to focus in on the total numbers in attendance at a particular program. This can be a very slippery slope down into the land of serving our own egos through our ministry.
Sure #s are vitally [...]
