Today a friend asked me, “If you had a 13 year old daughter, would you let her have a blog?” I love the idea of teenagers blogging. It’s a great outlet for their ideas. Also, the writing experience will help them: – Process their thoughts and feelings – Develop their writing skills – Possibly discover [...]

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We’re in a meeting preparing for our mission trip to New Mexico sharing our stupid human tricks. This is the freakiest one I’ve ever seen.

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We played this today at our weekend service. It’s from the TV show Minute To Win It. We played this again in our large group time the following Wednesday before small groups. Here’s the video: We also did this on the bus last week during our mission trip: This one’s using a Nutter Butter: Here’s [...]

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I was looking through my Twitter account today and saw the ones I marked as favorites. I thought if I liked them, maybe you would, too. To see the picture Misha referenced, click here. The picture along with her tweet is pretty funny. If you’d like to follow me on Twitter, click here. My user [...]

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One of my students studied abroad last semester. That, however, didn’t stop him from spending quality time with his family. They are on a video chat in this picture having a great time playing poker together. He would tell them how to play his hand. It’s pretty odd, but it’s funny and a great memory [...]

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One of the joys in youth ministry for those who commit to last is being on the “list of people students call” when major life events happen. Our diligence and longevity means a lot to students… even if they don’t understand it until after they graduate. When crisis or great news hits, their thoughtfulness to [...]

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YOU MUST READ THIS POST ON KURT JOHNSTON’S BLOG! This is awesome. I posted a clip below of a great parent letter. It’s written by a volunteer to a disgruntled parent of an injured student who was injured at the leader’s small group. This letter is a great example that you might want to save [...]

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Each week, you look at the girls in your church, and you dream about the opportunity to make a bigger impact in their lives. You envision a team of women coming alongside you, investing their time and talents to help teenage girls discover how beautiful and valuable they truly are. You imagine groups of girls [...]

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I’m teaching my small group guys about learning from the Israelites mistakes. Every time God delivered them, they went right back to their old ways. We’re discussing Nehemiah 9 (a summary of Israel’s chosen paths away from God). I created this graphic to help them see what they can expect from the path they choose. [...]

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Today I’ll get the 30,000th click on VolunteerYouthMinistry.com. I wish I had an iPhone to give away to the lucky visitor. Maybe I’ll find a way to do that for my 100,000th click. That would be cool. Thank you for checking out this blog. I also appreciate all of the links and tweets people have [...]

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