Youth Ministry Ideas is currently # 1 for the keyword, “youth ministry ideas” on the top 3 Search Engines: Google, Yahoo, and MSN. From my site statistics that’s how many of my readers have found me. Others have found me from my posts listed in the search engines.
This obviously isn’t because I have the greatest youth ministry ideas or the best website. It has to do with SEO (search engine optimization). It’s the way that the search engines see my site and there are some things that was specifically done …

I’ve heard story after story and have even been there myself about the lower wages of being a Youth Pastor. So let me share with you what I currently do. Others that I know also are able to supplement their incomes too by doing some of the things that I do.
All the methods that I’m sharing with you actually are a result of starting this Youth Ministry Blog which is pretty amazing to me. Please feel free to contact me about any of the items that I share about. Please …

I’ve been praying about Youth Ministry Ideas and I need your help. I have looked at stats on my site and I see that every state in the United States has visited this site, but my vision is that of more involvement with Youth Ministry Ideas.
So, I will continue to post things that I find and that I’ve worked on and try to be as unique as possible even though sometimes it’s just not going to happen, but I would like for you to pray and consider sharing a youth …

Looking for a youth ministry job? Do you feel that you have what it takes to step into a church by faith and the training that you have received? Are you Super Youth Pastor?
From time to time I will take a look at youth pastor job openings on places like ChurchStaffing.com and YouthSpecialites.com to see what churches have deemed what they would like to see in their youth leader. It amazes me sometimes at what the job description ends up looking like.
Below are three different job descriptions that I found …

I don’t know if we can get to 2008 reasons to do youth ministry, maybe I’ll be surprised. I will start with number 1 and then please add your reason via a comment and we will see how far down we make it. You can also forward this to others to see what other youth leaders reasons are. Maybe your reason is someones name, beating a student at Halo, picking off a Jr. higher with a dodge-ball, oh and spiritual reasons welcomed too.
1) To see the light bulb effect go …

Surprisingly, I saw that many had searched for Halloween ideas for Youth Ministry. Next time around I will gather some ideas that other youth groups do for Halloween and you can make the decision.
I personally told the students that I lead that they need to respect what their family believes about Halloween as their seems to be many different interpretations on what to do and not do.
One thing stands out loud and clear for me and that is it’s a huge opportunity to talk about spiritual things! My family and …