We’re in no hurry, God. We’re content to linger in the path sign-posted with your decisions. Who you are and what you’ve done are all we’ll ever want (Isaiah 26:8 MSG). Isaiah spoke of a time when the people of God would find complete rest and peace and hope in God.…
A huge struggle in student ministry is unity. How do we take a group of students who seem to be totally different from one another and make them a unified Christian front? How do we foster a caring community that has residents who are all on the same page and know and care for one another?…
I think youth work is fantastic training for parenting small children and vice-versa. Those compliant teenagers kind of remind me of compliant toddlers. You know the type of children who wobble into the kitchen in the morning and are just pleasant.…
Throughout my entire life as a person with red hair, I’ve always struggled to find other people with red hair to look up to. I mean there’s Danny Bonaduce, the kid with the mullet from Salute Your Shorts, and David Caruso.…
Because the church has historically done little to reach out to and disciple college students para church organizations have stepped up in our place. So, to those of you that wouldn’t settle for the detachment of college-age people and faithfully walk with them on campuses, I say “thank you.”…
If you look at the collegiate landscape you will notice a plethora of college ministries represented on campuses across America. A lot of these campus ministries are para-church organizations; most schools have the standard, Campus Crusade or Navigators ministries, some have Young Life which takes Christian College students and helps them invest their lives in the youth of the community.…
We recently held an area wide youth worship service on the football field of our local high school. Two other youth pastors and I had planned, prepared, and pulled in every favor we could think of to make this night come together in spite of our budgets nearing $0 (mine already a little south of that mark).…
Over the past few years, I have noticed more and more students telling me they not only don’t care about leadership, they actually hate it. How can you hate leadership? What did it ever do to you? As it turns out, lots of bad stuff.…
In youth ministry, we often talk about having healthy and growing ministries. We all know that numbers do not always reflect the health or growth of a ministry. But if our ministries are not growing in their relationships (with students, parents, volunteers), ministry opportunities, biblical purposes, then there may be something hindering what God could be doing.…
