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I recently asked the Jr. High students that I lead to come up with questions that they currently have about God, the Bible, Christianity and wow, I couldn’t have been happier by the quality and thought provoking questions that [...]
Transitioning off of Level One and Level Two, we come to a level in youth ministry called, “Community”.
If you have seen The Lord of The Rings movie series this what we call “The Shire” effect. The Shire effect? Yeah, in a perfect youth ministry fantasy world, this would be where every student’s [...]
I love reading, listening, and pondering the philosophy of youth ministry. In an earlier post, I wrote about a level one ministry.
Adding level two will greatly enhance a depth that didn’t exist before in your youth ministry. Begin focusing on the following to provide a greater depth than you had before:
Recognize the [...]
Towards the end of 2007 I got to speak over the phone with Jeff Borton who is the high school pastor @ Christ Fellowship Church in Miami florida. The executive pastor at Jeff’s church is Eric Geiger who co-authored the book above called Simple Church.
Jeff found my youth ministry [...]
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 [...]
It’s summer time so what are you going to do? If you haven’t already done so, I would encourage you to change things up in your youth ministry during the summer. I have to start by saying that these ideas are geared more for the northern half of the U.S. where it’s cold during the [...]
I thought that I would share how I structure our youth meeting times.
Before I do that, I have to mention that what I’m about to explain flows out of our current purpose statement. This purpose statement was developed before I came on board. It’s a, “purpose driven” statement that will be redeveloped because our [...]
Without the intent of trying to sound arrogant in any way, I have always thought that youth ministry should be focused around teaching God’s word.
Below is an article I found from the Christian Post.
What do you think about this article?
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Bible-Based Youth Ministry Bumps [...]
Purpose Driven, Son Life, Family Based, Large Groups, Small Groups, Games, No Games, Lots of music little message, Little music lots of message, just meet and pray, pray then meet.
As you are probably saying ok already, I wanted to throw those ideas at you to begin thinking about the question, “How do we minister [...]
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