Tonight after PDYM, I was hanging out watching TV with some youth workers when I got a great voice message from some former students who are in town from college for Spring Break. They wanted me to come hang out. While I love spending time with fellow youth workers, I ditched them like yesterday’s newspaper. [...]

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Students are waiting for leaders to believe in them; to challenge them to do youth ministry. – Doug Fields (Loosely quoted) A way I see students getting involved in ministry is students inviting students. Some of my guys are on the Tech Team. Zack joined a couple of years ago and has been trained on [...]

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From a volunteer perspective, here’s how discipleship happens in our High School Ministry. Most of my interaction with discipleship is through my role as a small group leader. Here are a few things I do to implement discipleship in the lives of our students: 1. Push students to join small groups. Click here to read [...]

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1. The header of this blog is a picture my small group and two other groups which meet on Wednesday night in a local home. This picture was taken the night Saddleback’s high school pastor, Josh Griffin, came by with cookies and milk. Read about it here 2. Megan Hutchinson talked about Life Hurts God [...]

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Jake is a student in our high school ministry who works at our church’s concession stand. He was also in my cabin at our discipleship retreat a couple of months ago. We’ve come to know each other on a surface level over the past couple of months. Tonight we struck up a conversation while I [...]

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I live by my navigation system. However, it tends to talk too much. It tells me there is a left turn ahead, then tells me again as I get closer, then as I approach the intersection, it tells again to turn left. Sometimes I turn the volume all the way down. Other times I turn [...]

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This week’s small groups were pretty cool. One of our leaders surprised the students with ice cream sundaes. That was an extra special treat. I love his heart for students. During our large group time we: 1. Got feedback from students who went to the homeless shelter last Friday 2. Caught up on the health [...]

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Our Ladera Ranch high school small groups recorded a word of encouragement for PDYM youth workers. Thanks for all you do! Have a great conference. We hope you go home encouraged, spiritually refreshed and equipped to continue striving toward healthy youth ministry.

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In this session, Doug and the crew talked about worship. I serve as a leader at the high school service on Saturday nights at 6:30. I also served a few weeks in Wildside when they started meeting around tables. A few thoughts I had: Kurt mentioned that ministry changed when we moved into the Refinery. [...]

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Here’s a link to the video Doug showed in Session 3 about Penn (from Penn and Teller) receiving a Bible from an audience member. I’m going to use this tonight as a discussion starter with my small group guys. Good stuff!

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