Should you stay, or should you go? This is the question we pondered together in Part One. Where are you at with it today? It’s easy to get overwhelmed by circumstances. Even as I write this, I am fatigued by some things happening in my own circle – and yet I hear off in another room the song “Mighty to Save” playing.…
“Should I stay or should I go?” The Clash made those lyrics famous in the 1980’s. The question the song proposes is one you may find yourself asking these days, creating your own kind of internal clash. Whether you’re paid or a volunteer in your church, you may be pondering what the lyrics suggest: “If I go there will be trouble… and if I stay it will be double.”…
In my last post, I talked about how for me sometimes, the every day rush of ministry is easy, but family is the hard part. To make family a little easier, I’ve really had to be careful with my time. When I’ve got a handle on our time, MOST of the time, our family is full of joy instead of being full of crazies all trying not to kill one another.…
Hey YM Nation, I am Estevao Yu, and it is my honor to write my first blog post for awesome youth workers. Thank you for serving with all your heart in the youth ministry because YOU MATTER to the students. Every year, I struggle to bring the right balance of local and overseas missions for my students to serve during the summer.…
Having spent over 20 years in student ministry, these are just a few brief thoughts that I felt led to share that every youth worker needs to know: 1. You Bring Nothing To The Table A great friend of mine spoke this truth into my life several years back and he reminds me of it often when we are discussing ministry.…
Family first. Ministry second. That’s my creed. I strive for that because I’ve seen far too many families torn a part because the ministry was put before the needs of the home were met. I don’t want my kids to grow up hating God because dad was always at church and never spending time with them.…
No one has ever accused the Drill Sergeant of pulling punches. If I think someone’s wrong (or if I think I’m right), I have no problem wading into difficult conversations. Over the years, I’ve done that well and I’ve done it poorly.…
I (Tasha) am a counselor, and I have been working with men battling internet pornography addiction for over a decade. The pornography problem is an epidemic in the Christian community. • Promise Keepers did a study and found that 53% of their participants had viewed pornography in the last week.…
Being a youth worker is quite possibly the best job on the planet. When Tim was lead pastor for an eight-year stint in Maryland, he felt like he took a demotion! We admit that we’re a bit biased, but seriously, where else can you budget funds for an elf costume, 1 gross of ping pong balls, 70 lbs of dry ice, and the ingredients to make slime?…
Sometimes Tasha and I really don’t like the Bible. We love it when it talks about love, and forgiveness, and passion, and the Kingdom of God. But we really don’t like it when it says things that are personal to us.…
