In rural ministry, we often don’t have the budget to pull off big name events and get all the shiny prepacked curriculum that others enjoy. The resource I am going to share with you today is very well done, and totally free. So, in the words of “Duck Commander” Phil Robertson… […]
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Review: Group Mission Trip’s Week of Hope
As I sit on my couch still processing everything that has happened this week, I really fell compelled to write a review of my experience. Which you can gather from the title, is on Group Mission Trip’s Week of Hope. We just returned from a 5 day mission trip to […]
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Parent Ministry: Mission Trip Ideas
Hey guys and gals! I’m writing this from my camp cot. We are at Group’s Week of Hope mission trip in Nashville TN. It’s the last night and I’m prepping for our Parent Connect meeting when we return. Which got me to thinking about what are some parent ministry things […]
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Disney ideas for youth ministry: customer service
It was the end of a long day at the Magic Kingdom. My wife had gone to buy some mousketeer hats while my daughter and I rode a ride one last time. She bought two hats and had them embroidered with our names. She went to pay the man and […]
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Leaving Well – 10 Tips….
We resign. That’s the not so positive phrase that I had to tell our Pastor several weeks ago. There really aren’t any good phrases or words for leaving a position, ministry or otherwise, but it was something that we had to do. Our lives at that time were nothing like […]
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Attendance Lesson
I consider myself a fairly smart and well trained youth minister. I’m no expert, but I am constantly learning about youth ministry. I hold youth ministry certificates, I am studying youth ministry in college, I constantly read youth ministry magazines and books, I attend conferences, and I consistently participate in […]
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Guest Post: Too Good to Be True…
This guest post is from Kevin Patterson. Kevin is the Youth Pastor at FBC Dawson Springs, Kentucky. He blogs at Life in The Youth Ministry Fishbowl I hate horses. I know, sounds weird from a person from my neck of the woods but I hate them. When I was a kid […]
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Guest Post: Patience..
This guest post is from Kevin Patterson. Kevin is the Youth Pastor at FBC Dawson Springs, Kentucky. He blogs at Life in The Youth Ministry Fishbowl When I was around 12 years old, I was out fishing with my Papaw (grandfather, for my non-country audience) and I learned one of the […]
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Disney ideas for youth ministry: Planning a Pace
As we walked into the Magic Kingdom, the first thing we did was find Cinderella. For weeks, my daughter talked about wanting to hug Cinderella at Disney World. It’s the one thing she wanted to do. So, upon entering the park, we made a beeline for the fastpass option for […]
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Devotion to a False God
Last week, at Disney World, I went to retrieve our stroller from the stroller parking section. As I searched among the hundred or so strollers, I finally found mine and started to move it. As I pulled, it snagged on a woman’s garment. Panicked, I looked up and saw it was […]
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Guest Post: You Might Be in Rural Ministry If…From Kevin…
This guest post is from Kevin Patterson. Kevin is the Youth Pastor at FBC Dawson Springs, Kentucky. He blogs at Life in The Youth Ministry Fishbowl Guest When I ran into Brent at SYMC and he approached me about doing some Rural Youth Ministry guest posts, I thought “Looky […]
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Mission Ashley 2013….
Next week I will be on mission with a team of 19 other people from my church to Ashley, Illinois. Ashley is a town that was never large, and most of the major employers have left. The picture here is of the candy factory that at one point made ZERO candy […]