Guest Post: Helping Students Who Are Different Than Most

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 [...]

Guest Post: The Wheel That Isn’t Squeaky

You know the saying, “The squeaky wheel is the one that gets greased”? It seems that’s true in youth ministry. We give our attention to obvious needs. By the time we’ve dealt with one, another pops up. Sometimes needs that aren’t as obvious go unmet because we haven’t taken time to unearth them. In this [...]

Guest Post: Small Group Sorority

Haley Veturis is a 2-year intern with our high school ministry. She has taken a unique approach to bonding her girls together while raising the bar for them by giving them expectations to live up to. She’s had a great response. I asked her to share her idea with you. Here’s what she had to [...]

Guest Post: Youth Ministry Prayer Guide – by Matt Baxter

If your church doesn’t currently have a youth ministry prayer team – make that your primary goal for the remainder of the year! Other youth ministry goals are great to have – i.e. increase in numbers, increase in volunteers, monthly service projects, an annual mission’s trip, etc. But prayer is paramount! A youth ministry’s success [...]