It’s been a whirlwind of a year as the High School Pastor. In many ways it feels and seems that I have been in the role longer
It’s been another year of ministry and the DYM blog has been going strong for all of it. We are pumped to ramp up the blog in the New Year with new voices and more content in hopes that it …
So I just got from vacation. I took almost 3 weeks off. I am not going to lie, it was pretty amazing. I never have done anything like that before in ministry and I was really challenged by my friend …
Let me ask a question.
The leaders that you have coming to your services, do they just show up or do they know WHY they show up?
I ask this because this is something in which our team began to …
If you are leading your own ministry, naturally as the leader you have hope, dermas and aspirations for the students who have been entrusted into your care. We hear all of the time that youth ministries run by themselves, away
Student leadership is done in our ministry as we know it.
Well, kind of.
Do I still have a team of students whom I meet with regularly and we talk about leadership and servanthood? Yes. But it’s not student leadership …
I used to think that people who went to counseling were weak.
Now I think they are wise.
I unashamedly can say now that I am a regular when it comes to counseling. In all honestly, I think …
This is not meant to knock anyone, maybe because I’m 31 and it means I am officially getting old but when people over 25 use words like “let’s get hyped” “shook” or “its going to be 100” and things our …
Guest Post by Alex McElroy
Recently, I had the opportunity to speak to an entire junior class on what to do when your self-worth is challenged. Our young people are facing enormous pressures nowadays. Along with overt peer pressure there …