Social Media Posting Schedule
One of the questions I think I get asked about the most is social media. I won’t lie, I think we have a good social media presence (check it out here). I don’t mind those questions because I …
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Jan 2020
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Dec 2019
TOUGH QUESTIONS TO ASK ABOUT YOUR SERVICES/EVENTS
Let us be honest.
Attendance matters.
There… someone said it.
It’s a reality, but the heart behind why you care about it makes the difference. There is not one student pastor out there if they are honest with themselves, when …
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Dec 2019
Do Your Leaders Know How To “WIN” In Your Ministry?
It’s a great question to ask in your ministry and about your leaders. If I was to come to visit your youth ministry one week and I was to walk around with your leaders and ask them:
What does it …
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Dec 2019
How To Gain Some Momentum In Your Ministry
I have been messaged a lot lately about how to build momentum in ministry. There is a lot of that right now in our ministry. Awesome.
But how?
First, it takes time. It is that something builds. One event won’t …
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Oct 2019
Why Music Sets The Atmosphere You Want For Your Service
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 …
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Oct 2019
Do You Maximize Your Time With Leaders On The Weekend?
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 …
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Oct 2019
Guest Post: DISCUSSION VS. TEACHING
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 …
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Sep 2019
3 Things To Build Trust With Your People
In order to move forward in firing on all cylinders in your ministry, with your team, and with your volunteers you need to have trust. Trust is the rope that keeps everything together while you are moving. Your people need
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Sep 2019
How Do You Deal With Discouragement?
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 …
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Sep 2019
Stop Holding On To Your Ministry… Give It Away
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 …