A few years ago, when I was a youth pastor, we were running a typical night of youth group and at one point split up into groups for prayer. When we did, a young girl who had recently started coming was in my group. We were sitting in such a […]
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Here’s part one in a 3 part series on youth culture i was recently blessed to be part of. Check it out Panel: Youth Culture Trends Part 1 from Word of Life on Vimeo.
Seems like these days a lot of family and friends are going through some difficult stuff. It’s easy to get defeated and discouraged if we don’t keep our eyes on Christ. This is one of those songs I love to listen to when I’m feeling that way. It reminds me […]
Last week we started a brand new thing here at Word of Life called Transfer Live. It’s going to become a large library of short, pointed training on various youth ministry aspects. This was my contribution last week on Building a Team. For my posts on Building a Team, go […]
Local Church Ministries is running a pilot test today for live streaming some training we are filming. The filming is a part of a project called Transfer Live where we will create a library of high quality training in bite size chunks for youth leadership treams across the country. As […]
Cyberbullying Part 2 (see part 1) (a part of the Blog Focus Week on Bullying) A few days ago, we spent a few minutes defining what cyberbullying is and why it’s so serious. Today we want to look at some action we can take. Like McGruff always says, “Take a […]
Cyberbullying Part 1 (a part of the Blog Focus Week on Bullying) When I was assigned this topic for our monthly blog focus week, I had no idea how much I’d learn. I know cyberbullying is an issue and I know every primetime crime drama has done an episode on […]
How to Keep Great Leaders Around for a Long Time In part one of this series, we looked at the characteristics of a good youth staff leader. In part two, we talked about where to find just such leaders. In part three, we discussed some strategy for recruiting those leaders. […]
Tips for Recruiting Youth Staff So far in this series we have looked at the makeup of a good youth leader and where in our churches we might find some of these people. But just because we know who they are doesn’t mean they’re on the team yet. So […]
Looking for Leaders A couple of days ago we discussed the makeup of a quality youth staff leader. But even though you understand that, you might be asking yourself, “Where Do I Find Them?” Here’s a couple hints toward places you may not have thought of. They all have pros […]