GUEST POST: WHO’S BEHIND YOU?
Early on in my youth ministry years I had this perception that I had to be the guy. I had to be the guy to do all the setup and tear-down. I had to be the guy who led all …
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Apr 2021
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Mar 2021
That Spring Slump Hits Different
Post-apocalypse life has meant that this year, the Spring Slump is hitting a little differently.
I don’t know about you, but every year we go through some type of slump in the spring. Maybe it’s because the school year is …
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Mar 2021
How To Dissect Your Ministry For The Better (Part 2)
Last week put up PART 1 (CLICK HERE) about how to dissect and take a good hard look at your ministry in order to make it better and better. Going through these questions with your team, volunteers, …
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Mar 2021
GUEST POST: DEAR YOUTH WORKER, LIL NAS X SHOULDN’T BE A SHOCK
If you have been keeping up, you will know that Lil Nas X plans to release a satanic shoe. He also released a new music video to get back at how the church counseled him as someone who opened up …
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Mar 2021
An Incomprehensive List of Things to Know About Asian Americans
This was written on July 4, 2020. It wasn’t the first time we had noticed anti-Asian sentiments from those in the church, including our own, but it somehow still blindsided us.
When you grow up as a minority in …
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Mar 2021
How To Dissect Your Ministry For The Better (Part 1)
Taking a good hard look at your service and asking for feedback and dissecting everything is a good thing for your ministry. This is actually something I feel many youth pastors fail at. Why? This is a grueling process, a …
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Mar 2021
Thinking All About Programming: Things To Go From Good To Great
In my last post we talked about some big questions and concepts in regards to how we should be thinking about programming to keep pushing us forward in excellence. In our last meeting we broke it down even more in
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Mar 2021
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
LIFE GROUP TRAINING VIDEO: Parents Can Give You Incredible Insight
Here’s a quick tips/training video I made for my junior high Life Group leaders that went out today! How parents can give you GREAT insight into the students in your Life Group! I thought may be helpful in your youth …
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Mar 2021
QUESTIONS TO CHALLENGE YOU TO BE INTENTIONAL ABOUT YOUR PRGRAM
…First off, I’m sorry it’s been a while on my end in regards to posting. Things have been a little crazy. Just recently I have taken on overseeing our kids teams across all our campuses as long with youth