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 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 …
Post-apocalypse life has meant that this year, the Spring Slump is hitting a little differently.
I don’t know about you, but every year we go through some type of slump in the spring. Maybe it’s because the school year is …
This was written on July 4, 2020. It wasn’t the first time we had noticed anti-Asian sentiments from those in the church, including our own, but it somehow still blindsided us.
When you grow up as a minority in …
Like most mid-thirties guys, I’m thinking about being healthy.
One of the way I try to do my part to be eating pizza and drinking coke until I’m 70 and the grandfather of the youth group is by working out. …
I don’t know if life and ministry has ever been as messy as it has been over the past 11 months. I imagine your story is similar. If we, as grown people are struggling to process all of the change, …
As a black youth pastor and 16-year youth ministry veteran, I’ve never seen this much hype in the broader culture around black history month. It seems as though everyone is jumping onto the bandwagon to specifically acknowledge African Americans like …
If you’ve given up on Zoom in your ministry, hang in there! There’s still hope. Don’t get me wrong; if you’ve figured out face-to-face gatherings that please parents and keep students safe, keep crushing it! But for those who remain …
So, I am no good at predicting the future. If we didn’t all know that in 2020, we certainly know it now. What I do know is that in 2021 youth ministry needs to innovate…and fast. And it needs to …
