GUEST POST: WHO’S BEHIND YOU?
Early on in my youth ministry years I had this perception that I had to be the guy. I had to be the guy to do all the setup and tear-down. I had to be the guy who led all …
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Apr 2021
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Mar 2021
How To Dissect Your Ministry For The Better (Part 2)
Last week put up PART 1 (CLICK HERE) about how to dissect and take a good hard look at your ministry in order to make it better and better. Going through these questions with your team, volunteers, …
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Mar 2021
GUEST POST: DEAR YOUTH WORKER, LIL NAS X SHOULDN’T BE A SHOCK
If you have been keeping up, you will know that Lil Nas X plans to release a satanic shoe. He also released a new music video to get back at how the church counseled him as someone who opened up …
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Mar 2021
How To Dissect Your Ministry For The Better (Part 1)
Taking a good hard look at your service and asking for feedback and dissecting everything is a good thing for your ministry. This is actually something I feel many youth pastors fail at. Why? This is a grueling process, a …
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Mar 2021
Thinking All About Programming: Things To Go From Good To Great
In my last post we talked about some big questions and concepts in regards to how we should be thinking about programming to keep pushing us forward in excellence. In our last meeting we broke it down even more in
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Mar 2021
QUESTIONS TO CHALLENGE YOU TO BE INTENTIONAL ABOUT YOUR PRGRAM
…First off, I’m sorry it’s been a while on my end in regards to posting. Things have been a little crazy. Just recently I have taken on overseeing our kids teams across all our campuses as long with youth
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Feb 2021
2 Big Questions To Ask About Your Event
I have been chatting with our team about the 1st Wednesday events that we have been doing since last year. In short, the 1st Wednesday of the month we do what a “typical” youth group would do: Welcome, announcements, worship, …
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Jan 2021
Spend Less Time With Students
I want to ask you the same question I asked my team this week in our meeting.
“If your leaders were hanging out with their students they lead as much as you have been hanging out with your leaders, would …
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Jan 2021
Questions To Ask Yourself About Your Ministry Entering Into The New Year
New year, new me right?
With the new year comes new things in order to try and get better in how we look, how we feel, how we operate and more. Same thing when it comes to ministry. I don’t …
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Jan 2021
2021 Leadership PTSD
I don’t know about you, but this last year have given me a little twitch in my eye.
The amount of times we had to switch, rethink, redo, cancel, adjust, or create something brand new out of nothing has left …