The Must Haves – Leading Small Groups helps you develop your adult volunteer staff to be small group leaders that invest in students� spiritual development. This training deals with building intentional relationships, creating an environment that promotes unity, depth and honesty, and remaining consistent and prepared as they lead. Overall Topic: Helping small group leaders [...]

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I originally posted this in February of 2009. If you’re new to VolunteerYouthMinistry.com, you may have missed it. There’s some good stuff here. Check it out… Herding cats Our Junior High team answers the question, “What does the youth staff do all day?” This is a classic Jake (a member of Saddleback Church’s youth staff) [...]

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The basis for this study is that Proverbs is written from a dad to his son. This book full of great advice, wisdom and direction for life. Many of our homes are missing that today. We’re so busy keeping up with life and trying to bring it under control that we lose this most important [...]

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I’m lucky my small group meets in the same house as Bill’s small group. Once or twice a year, Bill makes his famous Coney Dogs. The students bring everything else (chips, drinks, desserts…). It’s a tasty memory maker and community builder. Everybody shows up a 1/2 early so we can spend more time together before [...]

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My long-time friend, Matt McGill, has recently made his re-entry into the youth ministry world after a brief hiatus serving in other areas of the church. He’s taking over a group of incoming freshmen in the fall. Being the ever-diligent person that he is, he’s already getting an early start. You’ll want to add his [...]

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This video was done by students at Saddleback Church for a student-led service for our series called You Own The Weekend.

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Our students made this video for last weekend’s service. They led the service from start to finish. It’s so great what students are capable of when we release them to excel. They still get a little guidance, but all of the work is done by them.

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Tonight I saw two of our students at Taco Bell hanging out with another kid I didn’t know. After a few minutes of chit chat about their fishing trip that day and seeing pictures, I turned to the kid I didn’t know and started this conversation: Me to the kid (Brett): So, are you a [...]

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