Years ago we did a foot washing ceremony during a short-term mission trip. It was one of the most powerful moments of the trip, and it was a power image of biblical servanthood. It quickly became a staple of our annual summer mission trip. We’ve done this ceremony yearly [...]
A controversial new film, titled “Divided”, is stirring up youth ministers across the continent. “Divided” seeks to find the solution to the problem within modern youth ministry. In it’s 54 minutes of interviews, it boldly concludes the there isn’t just a problem within modern youth ministry; the problem is modern youth ministry. Personally, [...]
What are you currently doing to get youth to study the bible? Study the Bible? Yeah, anything we can do to motivate youth to study the Bible will be beneficial to their spiritual lives so I decided to brain storm some ways that they could get the word in their minds:
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In my time as a youth ministry leader, I’ve lead many Bible discussion groups for high school aged kids in the Bay Area. Most of them have been fun and engaging, but many have been dull, lifeless, and uninspiring. I’ve learned a lot from those not so great sessions, and what I’ve [...]
Want something crazy to kick off the fall? Add Strobe Light Dodgeball to the mix of say a Lock In or game evening in your youth ministry.
Not much to explain here other then you may have to monitor the injuries and reinforce to the strong boys that they can’t whip a [...]
We are all inspiration seekers.
In youth ministry we seek to inspire the youth in our communities. We seek to inspire for God. How creative can I be? How long can we walk that culturally relevant tight rope? Can we make cooler logos and use “artsy’er” PowerPoint backgrounds? We seek to inspire.
There [...]
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Tanks is an outside game played if you have a larger group. May be even worth it to make it a special invite friend water night or something.
How it works:
Gather the students in groups of 10. The groups are going to huddle facing each other but then select 1 person from [...]
This post is really simply about some of YOUR best youth ministry ideas. What happened? What did you do? Maybe it wasn’t what you expected and it turned out to be an awesome idea.
Also when it comes to the best youth ministry ideas, it just depends on category your talking about. For [...]
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