Trying to teach your students to be missional? Helping them live out their faith both here at home or around the world? Good for you! Well, before your next mission trip – heed this warning – there are only 4 …
A few days after returning exhausted from a week-long mission trip, I woke up to the worst kind of e-mail, a nastygram from a parent chewing me out for a comment made on the mission trip.
Upon reading it, my …
Congrats to the Homeword Culture blog on being ranked in the Feedspot’s Top 30 blogs about youth culture. It is a valuable resource to youth workers – and if you haven’t heard of it yet, head over there to check …
This year my youth ministry is offering two summer mission trips: A domestic trip to a nearby town (that we offer every other year) and an international trip to Haiti.
Some of our families do both trips but others choose …
Derry is the Student Ministries Pastor at Nappanee Missionary Church and a DYM author. We released 9 of his resources on the site that are specifically geared toward partnering with parents. You can buy all 9 (valued at $50) for …
Parents! Don’t make the critical mistake of exploding on your teens all of the time. This is a quick way to establish huge walls with them. While sometimes they certainly do things that warrant a good old freak out, …
Are you maximizing the relationship you have with parents? Or, are they just dropping teens off? Is the only thing you’ve ever asked them to do is serve or chaperone? What if there was more?
Parents aren’t just potential volunteers …
GUEST POST by DYM Author Eric Ferris
To this day I remain astonished that parents trusted me to take their kids on my first ever missions trip. I was 23 years old and they let me take their kids across …