We couldn’t be more excited for the National Day of Volunteer Youth Ministry Training coming up this September 18th – train ALL of your volunteers, bring a van load of them even, for around a hundred bucks total. It’s …
My dad passed away on April 15, 2004, just a few weeks before I graduated from high school. He was a good man who worked hard all his life. I didn’t live with him day-to-day because my parents divorced when …
Sermons that nourish require slow cooking.
– Kent Anderson
You may be the person who plans an entire year’s worth of talks without blinking an eye (by purchasing them on DYM!). Or you may be pretty sure what you’re going …
In all my years of ministry I have experienced the same difficulty most youth workers face when it comes to student ministry. It seems we are always faced with this task each and every year. This difficult task is recruiting …
This is not a quick fix thing or something you do tomorrow and everything will change type thing. This is something we started in the fall fo 2019 and has taken a year to catch and we have seen it …
We live in a society and culture that elevates immorality. We have some ministry giants we once knew compromise their integrity and lifestyle. If we want to last in ministry we have to always put ourselves in a position of …
If there is one incredible gift last summer’s lockdowns gave us youth workers, it was a blessed reprieve from the annual swimsuit dress code debates. Things are starting to reopen, and we have less time this year for navel-gazing as …
I wanted to share a huge win for our ministry and something we have been working on for over a year.
We are starting to write and produce our own worship music. Worship songs written by our youth for their …
What happens when a leader is not a right fit to serve in the ministry? You know you need to but you don’t know how. My hope is that the following will help point you in the right direction.
The …
I had a really good conversation with my counselor the other day (let’s normalize mental health OK?).
She had asked me a question that I just did not get. I kept on trying to come up with answers but I …