Connecting faith to life is the great challenge of youth ministry. We try hard to teach, model, and equip students to integrate their faith into school, home and all of life.
But often we see a disconnect. Life at church
I think one of my favorite things I took on this year was our student leadership team. A group of 20 all-in-core students in our ministry who have major leadership potential and working with them all year-long to help develop …
How well do you want to be known by the students in your area for having tough but needed conversations?
I think where a lot of ministries (not just youth ministries) who struggle with having having deep, real, raw, confrontational …
We are getting ready to close out one of my favorite things we do all year.
YOU OWN THE NIGHT.
This is a series where we allow 5 high schools take over our services and the students on our student …
One of the benefits of being a veteran in youth ministry, is that you get to look back and reflect. Last week, I had the opportunity to connect with some former students of the church I served ten years ago. …
People used to tell me that my degree was in a fairly useless field. After all, what good does studying history do? These days, I’m finding myself being more appreciated for sheer amount of data, facts, and historical analysis I …
Guest Post By:
Sabrina Hadro
First, I have to say that I didn’t grow up in a church that celebrated Lent. The Lenten season is something I have only in the last five years begun to both participate in and …
I’ll admit: I pretty much buy and read any new book from Bill Hybels. He’s a great teacher who has a lot of wisdom and I love learning from him. That being said, I think Simplify
**This video was shot and edited by two of our very own students…. so cool.
Quite a few people have asked me about our One Night events.
In all honesty they are pretty simple.
Our church runs off of 7 …