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I’ve had this idea for a while about offering internships in our student ministry, with a bit of a twist. My twists sometimes freak people out, but ride this tornado with me for a minute… I’ve had a few college students work with me to fulfill internship requirements for graduation and those times have [...]
I just got back from a youth conference that I will blog about soon and Rick Young (who also MC’d the event) – Middle School Pastor at First Baptist Church Woodstock shared with the youth pastors and leaders about how to last in youth ministry. Rick has been at his church for the past 16 [...]
About a year ago Jeff Borton contacted me to let me know that there was a book that was on its way called Simple Student Ministry. He asked that I would let others know about it on my blog to gather some input from other youth workers across the country.
I was totally blessed when I read a message this morning from Paul who tried my Survivor Lock-In out.
Listen to Paul:
I had survivor lock-in last February and it was a huge success. We had over 150 kids there that night. I wanted to share our You Tube video with you to help [...]
I’m excited to be blogging again this week. Today’s Monday Ministry Helper is about dealing with our sin.
In the Sunday School class that I’m attending we are going through a book by Dr. James MacDonald called “10 Choices“. You can read more about it HERE.
Chapter two is about Choosing forgiveness and [...]
I enjoy eating and I enjoy people. Put them together and (no I don’t mean eating people silly) get a great way to build your team! This weeks Thursday team building thought is to consistently take your volunteer staff out to eat.
I would recommend that if you can do this at least quarterly and [...]
This Team Building Thursday is something very simple and practicle, but you wouldn’t believe the mileage that you can get out of this!
If you haven’t done this before or in awhile, I would suggest writing a good old fashion letter to those that help in your youth ministry.
Here’s why:
1) It’s tangible. We [...]
In my last two posts I wrote about my visit to a church in Iowa and that I was interviewing with them. I first wanted to say that out of 3 candidates that they narrowed it down to, I was told last Wednesday that they offered the job to one of the other two guys [...]
Here are a few pictures of the trip this past weekend and then I will discuss what my experience was. I will then do a couple of follow up posts on Do’s and Don’ts of an interview.
Above is the search team that I spent time with from about 4pm to 8pm. The [...]
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