This Week’s Monday Ministry Helper is a small group leader evaluation form from YouthMinistryHelper.com. You can check them out.
Here are the questions on the form that you can download below:

Am I living a passionate faith and a lifestyle that is above reproach?
Who are the students whom I’ve really made a strong connection?
Who isn’t showing up to my small group that should be? What kind of follow up should I do this week?
What have I done with my students outside of the programmed small group time?
Am I challenging students in my …

For this weeks Win it Wednesday, you get to go to BluefishTV and pick 3 downloadable videos that you want to use for your youth ministry.

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The winner will be randomly selected on this Friday. I will leave a comment below about who won and then I will email …

This past month I recently quit my job to become self-employed and now because of my pockets of free time, I will attempt something I have never accomplished yet in blogging: “A Schedule”.
I know, for most youth leaders this is a dreaded word, maybe even a curse word, but I thought that I would give it a shot and if I don’t make it, I guess you can laugh or comment me or whatever.
Here’s what you can look forward to beginning next Monday September 8th:
Ministry Helper Mondays: I will share …

Below is a screen shot of YMNEWS.COM in their Channel section. You will notice that the last post I have was back in February of this year and I can’t get ahold of them. I have sent numerous emails regarding to getting my feed back up and running in their list but to no avail. YMNEWS.com is an offshoot of YouthPastor.com
(Click for larger image and then click back to return)

If anyone knows how to “get back in” I would love to hear about it, but as for now I’m not …

The Rethinking Youth Ministry blog is inviting youth leaders to share their summer church camp ideas with the world with a special contest.  What are the great activities, fun games, crazy theme night, creative craft projects, special worship experiences, and other meaningful traditions you do at camp each summer?  Share them with other youth ministers by posting a comment and be entered in a drawing for one of three prize packages of free youth ministry resources.  Contest ends Saturday, June 7.
Prize Package #1:

Spontaneous Melodramas 2 by Doug Fields, Laurie …

This is a fun youth ministry game to play during youth group or at your next Lock-In.
How do you play? – If you have a larger group, you will need to divide up into teams, each team select a person to duct tape to the wall. The team that has the person stay on the wall the longest wins. If you have a smaller youth group, just select the kid you like the least and stick him or her up there (kidding). If your group is smaller just select one …