Untie Your Shoes!
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. …
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Mar 2021
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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
Reviving Virtual Gatherings for Youth Ministry
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 …
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Aug 2020
Something to Complain About: Your Bible Study is Too Shallow!
This is a part of my ongoing series on complaints Youth Pastor’s often hear.
The first post was about why we play games in Youth Ministry. You can read it here.
The second complaint comes from parents who will …
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May 2020
8 Things White Youth Pastors Can Do About Racism
(From a black youth pastor)
I’m a black youth pastor at Restore Community Church, in Kansas City MO. The month of May 2020 has been especially tragic for the African American community. Beginning with Ahmaud Arbery’s killing at the hand …
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Mar 2020
I Don’t Know What Youth Worker Needs To Hear This But…
Maybe you are like me, but it feels like I have worked harder in the last two weeks than I have in a long time. I don’t know if that has to say more about me or the season that …
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Mar 2020
3 Things I Learned Being Bi-Vocational
When I started my ministry journey, like most, I was excited and eager to begin. I was hired part-time right after my college graduation as the Youth Director and Nursery Coordinator at the church where I currently serve. For the …
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Feb 2020
Team Incentives For Sign Ups
This video is one we have made because we did a big ol’ incentive campaign for our first ever Youth Winter Conference. The idea came because since we have never done this event before and we had no pictures, no …
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Feb 2020
Programming: Simple, Fun Service Opener Video
This last week we had our Youth Winter Conference. I will have to post about it later because I am still trying to process how awesome it was because it surpassed all expectations. It was the first time we ran …
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Feb 2020
Mariners JH Weekend in Review: Volume 5
Weekend Teaching Series: How NOT to Get Grounded (series premiere, week 1 of 4)
Sermon Synopsis: This week I got to speak for the first time in JH this year and it was a total blast! I gave a new …