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 time was spent with Q & A and eating some great food as you see below we had some ribs.

The next couple of pictures are where the church currently meets. They currently meet in a mall but are …

Every day we communicate with others. We communicate with family, friends, people at work and so forth. We communicate with God and His Son too. We expect communication back from others when we are having discussion or when we work somewhere. This concept should be no different when it comes to Youth Leaders and heads of churches.
 
Here’s a story that goes with this:
A church got a new youth leader for their junior high youth program. This was the first time that this church was going to have a junior …

Above is my wife and I with Molly. When I started as a youth pastor at her church she was in 7th grade and this past weekend we drove out to see her and another student graduate from high school. It’s such a blessing to see her grow and to know that God used my wife and I to influence her life.
While I was attending Bible college @ Colorado Christian University a statistic was mentioned about the average career of a youth pastor in a church was less than a …

I just got done reading a great SHORT article entitled, “What I Wish I Knew About Senior Pastors….Before I Started Youth Ministry“.
Here’s a quick excerpt of the article:
When I began, over 20 years ago, in my current ministry, my senior pastor said, “We don’t care about numbers. All we want is a quality program.” But as I went about building a numbers-ignoring “quality program,” it wasn’t long before my boss started hearing complaints.
This is a very great article and fits well with the post that I wrote HERE about being …

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 …

Above is an example from youtube.
Here is something to send to your youth ministry staff that will make them smile. It’s called, “elf yourself” by Office Max. You can go to: www.elfyourself.com and up load faces.
This would also be a great link to send to your students via their facebook, myspace, or your youth website.

 
I started doing youth ministry officially as a paid person back in the year of 2000. The picture above captures that year as a rookie and I remember each picture as if it were just one year ago.
When I first started out, I had a lot of things that I enjoyed: Hair, Hanging out late with students, spending time with students, and doing stuff with students. Do you see a repeating pattern?
Although I thoroughly enjoyed being that youth ministry rookie back then, I realize now that: I have no hair, …