I liked this post by Linda Vujnov over at SimplyYouthMinistry.com
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As a youth ministry volunteer and mother of four I’ve taken many students to different places in my car, but this time was different. Instead of the ASB and drill-team girls I usually chauffeured, I was stuck in my sedan with four girls who were the [...]

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What do you do with the kid who’s different? The boy who wears eye makeup and has black fingernails, the girl who goes through five shades of hair color every two weeks, the bookworm amidst athletic kids, the student who makes offbeat comments that leave everyone scratching their heads… the list can get long in [...]

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I’m reading How To Reach Your Full Potential for God by Charles F Stanley. I’m not very far into it yet, but I’m expecting it to be a great read.
Here’s a quote that I thought to be especially useful for me and fellow volunteer youth workers who teach Bible study:
A wise university professor once told [...]

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We have a big problem in our high school ministry. More students than our leaders can handle want to be in small groups. While I love the desire or our students, it kills me to know that there is such a great need going unmet. I’m going to do my best to do something about [...]

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I saw this post over at MoreThanDodgeball.com. It was especially interesting to me because I’ve been thinking lately I could really use a co-leader so I can divide my group next school year.
Here’s a couple of paragraphs, to read the rest of the post, go here

This is the time of year when small group leaders [...]

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We live in a world full of facades. A student is “okay”, but just had a bad fight with their parents, “doing fine”, but just got their 3rd Saturday school earlier today, “doing nothing”, but is freaked out the girl who might or might not say yes to going to the prom.
The message here is [...]

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Here’s a tool for youth workers to help their students tell their own story of Christ’s transformation in their lives. Click the image below for more details

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Devin is doing a great blog series entitled How to Volunteer Like a Pro based on his readings from the book by the same title. I recommend checking it out. If you’re a youth pastor, consider sending links to your volunteers, too.
To pick up a copy of the book, click this link:
How to Volunteer Like [...]

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When the day comes to stop doing youth ministry, commit to making your departure a smooth transition. Josh Griffin over at MoreThanDodgeball.com has some great thoughts on this. Here are his main points. Go to his blog to catch the wisdom behind each point.
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== Finish Out Your Commitment
== Communicate with the Small Group Leader/Coach
== Support [...]

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My friend Matt McGill has a great (and incredibly short) post today about getting out of a rut. Here’s a clip. I recommend taking a minute to go there and check out the rest.
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Come now, let us reason together . . . Isaiah 1:18
Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got [...]

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