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Each week  we’ll be writing about different ways that we, as leaders, can effectively be examples to our students,  and we’ll discuss different topics to talk over with our students.  These topics range from relationships to being active in a small group. All of these topics are nuggets every leader can apply to his or [...]

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This year our church is doing a big party for children on Halloween. It’s a great service opportunity for our students. We’ve had a great number of them excited about helping. We’re doing an event for students called Pumpkinfest on another day for them to have some fun of their own. ORANGE COUNTY’S LARGEST COMMUNITY [...]

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I come across the cussing students issue quite a bit. I’ve got a couple of responses and reasons behind them. – Sold out students can be held to a higher standard and will be less likely to have this issue I’ll get on the case of a student in private who should be further along [...]

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Kurt Johnston and friends write the posts for JuniorHighMinistry.com. Even though I don’t work with Jr High students, I get a lot out of this blog. Here are a few reasons I love reading that blog: – Even though Kurt is the leader of one of the cutting edge ministries in the country, he’s got [...]

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Nathan, a volunteer youth worker, took the challenge to start a weekly parent letter. He sent this note to me sharing how it’s enhanced his communication with parents. I also included his parent letter below. There wasn’t anything super like WOW in the responses, some were like: “my son takes this certain meds at certain [...]

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Today one of our students went to the hospital with a collapsed lung. I was so proud of students in our ministry for pouring out love to him on Facebook and by visiting him in the hospital. Through this feel-good experience, their hearts are softened and primed for the challenge, “Do you think there are [...]

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Tonight I was thinking about my small groups this week. My mind naturally went to thinking about the lesson. As I did, I remembered I’m not teaching this week, my new co-leader is. That gave me a sudden peace and simultaneous joy. Don’t get me wrong. I LOVE being a small group leader. I especially like teaching. [...]

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