It is the time of year that candy canes, Christmas trees, and familiar carols dominate our senses and thoughts. Take some time as you plan this Christmas season to help establish some holiday traditions that…
Youth Ministry training is vital. Free training opportunities are even better! Our friends at Dare2Share are offering a free Webinar called “Maximum Velocity: Turbocharge Your Youth Ministry” on December 10th at 10PM Pacific/1PM Eastern Here is…
Having young children, (especially a 4 year old girl) ensures a fair amount of Disney movies are in the house. Yesterday, I watched Beauty and the Beast with the kids, because my daughter is enthralled…
Here’s a freebie to give away. It’s a Powerpoint game that I made. It’s called A&B because well those are the two options. It’s just random questions to get the students going. I included the…
When I was in bi-vocational ministry, I learned quickly that youth ministry had to happen on a small budget. (And by small, I mean miniscule.) Every month, I would scrape and claw and put together…
This weekend, Brent Lacy from MinistryPlace.Net will be teaching one of the Youth Leader Workshops at the Indiana Christian Youth Convention in Anderson, Indiana. Brent will be teaching a workshop on Rural Youth Ministry. The…
This weekend, my wife and I are on a scouting trip for the missions team at our church. We are in Rochester, New York, with a pastor that ministers to a church plant founded and…
Living in Christ is a four session Bible Study from Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. It is being used as one of the follow-up tools for the MyHope America with Billy Graham campaign. It is a…
We are going to be starting a new series of posts at MinistryPlace.net called “Youth Ministry on the Cheap”. I know that there are a lot of rural youth ministries that have small budgets, some…
At a local Pastor’s prayer breakfast, I heard the following statement: I do a large part of my ministry at the local IGA. I see people that would never walk into my office for counseling.…
Ok. I will try and explain this the best I can…. Yes, we bowl with turkeys in the church fellowship hall. Yes they are frozen. Yes, the trustees know about it. Yes, students from all…
There are a few factors in youth ministry that are “universals”. It does not matter what your context is in youth ministry, at some point you will have one or multiple students in your ministry…