This blog post is a little bit heavy. I share it with the intent of helping others think through their actions if they ever have to remove a student from their ministries. This isn’t one I enjoyed writing, but if my goal is to help other in-the-trenches youth workers, I have to share the ugly [...]

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I love our students. They’re incredibly helpful around the church, passionate about the causes of Christ, eager to sign up to go on mission trips, etc. With some of them, however, there’s a huge disconnect with the work of the church and their interactions at home. I’m not surprised anymore, but I am at a [...]

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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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