I wrote a post about generational youth ministry for my friends over at Generation to Generation Youth Ministry’s website. Here’s a clip. You can go there for the rest: To raise up a crop of believing servants, youth workers must: – Watch for potential: You can’t mentor every student. Look for the ones who are [...]

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I LOVE traditions, rights of passage, etc. I believe it’s a great way to build anticipation for students from one year to the next. When I saw this post over at GenToGenYM.com, I had to share it. Good job Steven! This might be my new first night of small group tradition in future years. Every [...]

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The guys over at GenToGenYM.com had a great post today about how to help a kid in crisis. I’ll put some of the bullet points below. However, I highly recommend going over there to read what they have to say. I let them know I care and that I’m glad that they have trust in [...]

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My friends over at GenToGenYM.com gave me a great shout out this week. What I love, and agree with, about their post is there challenge for volunteer youth workers to evaluate their commitment level to see if they can either give more time or be more effective with what time they have to give. Fortunately, [...]

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My youth ministry friends over at Generation To Generation are looking for some guest posts from youth workers. If you have some wisdom to share, click on over to read about making it happen.

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I’ve been doing a small group series with a few high school small groups this summer called The Invisible War by Rick Warren. It’s all about understanding and dealing effectively with temptation. My friends over at Generation to Generation have written a couple of posts on the curriculum and its effectiveness. I echo what they [...]

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Congratulations to Steven and Matt on launching a brand new blog for their Generation to Generation posts. It’s GenToGenYM.com This blog is the first spinoff of what I hope will be more blogs getting their start by contributing to VolunteerYouthMinstry.com. If you would like to become a contributor to VolunteerYouthMinistry.com, please let me know by [...]

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Thanks Matt and Steven for all of your contributions to youth ministry and VolunteerYouthMinistry.com! Good luck with your new blog! Today’s post is a bittersweet one. Today we announced on our Twitter that we are going to be launching our very own youth ministry blog this Monday, April 25, at GenToGenYM.com. While this is an [...]

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Steven: For some reason, this time of year seems to be so busy. Some times of the year like Christmas we expect to be busy and to be constantly on the move, but this period before Easter and close to everyone’s Spring Break always seems to be busy. I’ve noticed over the past couple of [...]

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MATT: While meeting with my high school small group this week, I started looking around the room at my guys, picking out the seniors who will be moving on at the end of this school year. I thought about how far we have come, the amazing transformation in these guys, and how I can see [...]

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