I know 2020 is not quite over yet, and I still feel like we are in the final stage of Jumangi awaiting the final boss, but from a ministry standpoint, I don’t think I have ever worked so hard in …
2021 marks 13 years in student ministry and, in so many ways, the last year has made me feel like I’m in year one all over again! There has been so much to learn and so much to adjust …
I started doing Youth Ministry as an 18-year-old punk. I didn’t know what I was doing then (most of the time that is true now too) and that was nearly 40 years ago.
I still claim to be “26” to …
Last Sunday I had the need to take care of something very important before our program got started.
Namely, I had to go to the bathroom.
It’s no big deal, I thought. I was just going to excuse …
This is another installment of one of my team members leading out to their peers in our youth staff meeting.
I was in 10th grade the first time I ever attended a youth group. I wasn’t …
We had a pretty animated conversation on the way home last night.
I’m not gonna lie, I didn’t enjoy receiving that text from a parent at 9:45 pm. I know the family, the small group, and the student well. I …
I mentioned in an earlier post that every other week I have been having some of my staff share something with the team. It’s been awesome. This week’s post is from Kyle Bunyea, our Lake Arrowhead youth lead.
Pride. …
With COVID shutdowns at the end of the year, many of us are quickly finding ourselves needing to do our Christmas Party programming online. A few amazing youth workers (Isaac Leimeister, Samantha McEnhimer, Angel Myers, Rob Monroe, Jason Rysdyk, Richard …
One of my favorite things we have done on our team in this season is every other week I have one of our youth leads teach our team something. It could be something they are passionate about or really good …
The holidays are a crazy time in the church. If we are not careful, we will find ourselves hating the Christmas season because we get burnt out and our tanks go empty. We all have special events, Christmas parties, special …