Mariners JHM Weekend in Review: Volume 3
Weekend Teaching Series: What I Wish I Knew in Junior High (week 3 of 5)
Sermon Synopsis: This weekend I had my favorite guest speaker come teach at our 5 services … DYM co-founder and our youth pastor at …
The Death of a Calendar
If you’re anything like me, planning isn’t just a thing you do, it’s part of who you are. One of the best days of my year is the day I get to hang a new wall calendar up and start …
Reinflating Student Ministry after Covid 19
Remember when you knew how to do youth ministry?
Like, you really could “blow it up,” so to speak.
Before “coronavirus,” youth ministry was this amazing balloon that we’d inflated, decorated, wrote on and bounced around. We went to conventions …
How to Hold Youth Group If You Have to Cancel for Coronavirus *COVID-19
This week many churches are making the tough decision whether to hold services or not — even in the church where I (Josh) serve, we’re making decisions today that determine the plan this weekend and probably our local church gatherings …
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 …
YouthWorks + DYM = Awesome Summer Work Camp Experience
Both DYM and YouthWorks share a long history of helping youth workers like you with the time-consuming aspects of ministry, so that you are free to focus on the stuff that really matters in the lives of your teenagers, volunteers, …
What if more education didn’t look like more education?
Someone told me I could get a seminary education without leaving my current ministry and I asked to know more.
Ok, I get it. You’ve done the college thing (or not) and now all you want to do is love …