We have a water canon outside the Refinery building at Saddleback Church (what church doesn’t?). Here’s a video they shot of some unsuspecting attendees getting a little blast from our water feature. Good times.

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Big Picture Principles: 1. God has the leaders, you just have to find them – God cares more about your youth ministry than you do. You just have to look for them in expected and unexpected places – Remember Marv? 70-year-old volunteer – Students recruited him – “You know Marv loves you, don’t you?” – [...]

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Thursday night of PDYM I got to have dinner with a bunch of guys from the conference. Good times. For many in the group, it was the first excursion to the sweetness of Chipotle.

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Students are waiting for leaders to believe in them; to challenge them to do youth ministry. – Doug Fields (Loosely quoted) A way I see students getting involved in ministry is students inviting students. Some of my guys are on the Tech Team. Zack joined a couple of years ago and has been trained on [...]

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From a volunteer perspective, here’s how discipleship happens in our High School Ministry. Most of my interaction with discipleship is through my role as a small group leader. Here are a few things I do to implement discipleship in the lives of our students: 1. Push students to join small groups. Click here to read [...]

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1. The header of this blog is a picture my small group and two other groups which meet on Wednesday night in a local home. This picture was taken the night Saddleback’s high school pastor, Josh Griffin, came by with cookies and milk. Read about it here 2. Megan Hutchinson talked about Life Hurts God [...]

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Our Ladera Ranch high school small groups recorded a word of encouragement for PDYM youth workers. Thanks for all you do! Have a great conference. We hope you go home encouraged, spiritually refreshed and equipped to continue striving toward healthy youth ministry.

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In this session, Doug and the crew talked about worship. I serve as a leader at the high school service on Saturday nights at 6:30. I also served a few weeks in Wildside when they started meeting around tables. A few thoughts I had: Kurt mentioned that ministry changed when we moved into the Refinery. [...]

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Here’s a link to the video Doug showed in Session 3 about Penn (from Penn and Teller) receiving a Bible from an audience member. I’m going to use this tonight as a discussion starter with my small group guys. Good stuff!

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In Session 2, Doug talked about the basics of the 5 biblical purposes. As a volunteer at Saddleback Church’s High School Ministry, I thought I’d point to a couple of posts to show how this plays out specifically in my role as a small group leader. Doug mentioned that we will all naturally be passionate [...]

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