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 a little bit of what they will cover… This FREE webinar will explore: Adjusting your […]
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Are We The Beast?. Or the Dad? Or Both?..
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 with all things princess-related. Keep in mind that the last time that I watched this […]
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Youth Ministry on The Cheap: Free PowerPoint Game…
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 PP, the Jpeg’s, and a editable PP so the readers can add their own questions […]
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Youth Ministry on the Cheap: Game Night
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 an event on a shoe-string budget. Every year I asked for a raise in budget, […]
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MInistryPlace.Net on the road… ICYC…
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 first 20 attendees will get some really great free resources from ministry partners YS, BGEA, […]
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Philippine Island Typhoon Relief…
Many of us can not afford a foreign missions trip, especially on a rural ministry budget. Here is an opportunity to make an impact halfway across the world through a friend of mine, Brent Longenecker. Many of you that have been in youth ministry for a while know him as […]
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Youth Ministry on The Cheap: Living in Christ Study…
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 great resource to use in youth ministry as well. It covers some of the basics […]
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Youth Ministry on the Cheap…
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 have shrinking budgets, and others have no budget at all. So here at MinistryPlace.net, we […]
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Turkeys, Hot Dogs, Teenagers, The Gospel.
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 over come to find out if we are really using turkeys. Yes, we use the […]
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Gangs and Rural Ministry….
The title of this post sounds like an oxymoron, but it is becoming a real problem. It has been for a while in parts of the country. Unfortunately this problem hit a little too close to home a few years ago. I grew up in a small town in Southern […]
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Free Resource: Letters to A Teenager Series
If you could speak God’s truth into a group of teenagers about one thing, what would it be? That is the question that I posed to several people that love and work with teenagers all over the country. This series is based on those answers. I am glad to offer […]
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Book Review: Uncommon Wisdom From The Other Side…
Ever wish you could sit in a room with a group of seasoned youth workers from all over the country and get “nuts and bolts advice” on youth ministry? In a small, easy to read book, now you can. Tony Myles does a great job in this book of giving […]