One of the things I have been chatting with the Sandals Youth team is how important the atmosphere feels from the moment students step foot on campus, to what they feel in the service and after service. The atmosphere is …
For this year our team has been working through some key strategies to keeping and retaining leaders in this growing season of our ministry. For Sandals Youth, we have small groups a part of our normal part of our …
After attending her first night of our high school ministry, a new adult leader recently told me, “I can’t believe how much the kids talked!”
It’s true. My high school kids talk a lot.
Now, maybe they’ve always been like …
As a Small Group leader, you aren’t so much a TEACHER, you’re more of a conversational GUIDE. Your aim is to help students connect to the truth in God’s Word and with one another. Because of this, Small …
A friend called me the other day, and he was discouraged. He asked me how I deal with discouragement.
The word discouragement comes from the root word courage. The prefix dis- means “the opposite of.” So discouragement is …
I posted a tweet the other day, and since then I’ve just been thinking more and more about it. Here it is to give you some context:
“When students post how God is moving in their lives & mention your …
If you’re a youth worker you can’t escape it, you will be criticized. Criticism is aimed at leaders because everyone is imperfect and hurting and hurting people end up hurting others. When I first started leading a ministry, I found …
If you’re anything like me, you are go, go, go when it comes to planning and thinking big-picture. Even when I am at the event happening in the moment, I’m already thinking about how it could have been better or …
I don’t think I have ever heard someone working at a church say, “We have enough volunteers.”
We are always on the hunt for victims, I mean people who want to pastor teenagers. You have put in the groundwork, you …