Category: Featured
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This Week: Lead The Cause University
This week, I will be traveling with my wife and some students from our ministry to Denver for Lead The Cause University with Dare2Share. LTCU is a “Top 1%” Leadership camp experience. Here is how Dare2Share Describes it: Who it is For: Youth Leaders and Teens (High School students): Must have attended a Dare 2 Share student conference in 2013,…
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Guest Post: What Season Is It?
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 What is the one thing I love about living in rural setting? The outdoor seasons! They never end! I roll from deer hunting season, to turkey hunting season, to fishing,…
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Guest Post: Small Town
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 “Well I was born in a small town And I live in a small town Prob’ly die in a small town Oh, those small – communities All my friends are…
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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 what I expected it would…
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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 my grandfather had this horse.…
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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 most valuable lessons of my…
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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 here boys! Good times have…
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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 bars. This has been shuttered…
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A Day at DOFO with Michael Brown
When we get groups to come and visit our home one of the questions they always ask is what does an average day at DOFO look like? So here is my attempt… The day starts at 5:00 am as all the kids are waking up and getting dressed in the school uniforms. Everyday we send…
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Burning Vacation to Avoid Burnout – SYMC!
Having spent nearly 10 years in Youth Ministry, there is one thing that is constant -even more so than change- burnout. I have seen numerous youth workers, staff and volunteer alike come in like gang-busters only to fizzle out and fall away from ministry while trying to recompose the pieces of their lives. Youth ministry…
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Book Review : Criticism Bites
I was blessed with the opportunity to read Brian Berry’s New book Criticism Bites. We have all had to go through criticism from Youth Parents, bosses, family members, spouses, and even the voices in our own head. Brian does a great job reminding us that while we are linked to what we do, we ARE…
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Guest Post at More Than Dodgeball Yesterday…Why Rural?
Yesterday a Guest Post of mine was featured at MoreThanDodgeball.com about why to do Rural Youth Ministry. Here is the Link… Enjoy!