How To Reach Fringe Students In Your Youth Ministry from Dennis Beckner on Vimeo. I’m very thankful to Matt, Mel, James and Nathan for sharing these great insights about reaching at-risk, fringe students of our ministry. I am confident it will help volunteers everywhere become more confident in this area, lives will be transformed because [...]

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This was originally posted April 30, 2009. A student watched these videos last week and said they really made her think. I thought I’d bring them to the front of the blog so new readers would get some use out of them, too. Last night I invited my friend Alex who is an Atheist to [...]

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This is part 4 of a 4-part interview with Tom and Marla. In this segment, Tom and Marla talk about some pain in their family and how they used it to help other families seeking help to recover from issues of addiction. At the end of this video I mention Celebrate Recovery and Life Hurts/God [...]

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This is part 3 of a 4-part interview with Tom and Marla. In this segment, Tom, a 16-year veteran volunteer, answers questions and gives great advice about teaching a small group of high school boys. Here are links to the other videos in this series: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Be sure [...]

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This is part 2 of a 4-part interview with Tom and Marla. In this segment, Marla, a 14-year veteran volunteer, answers questions and gives great advice about dealing with big issues in the lives of students. Here are links to the videos in this series: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Be sure [...]

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This is part 1 of a 4-part interview with Tom and Marla. Before leaving after several years of service in our student ministry, we sat together to discuss what they’ve learned about youth ministry and what they would tell new volunteers. Look for the second segment to be posted next week. Here are links to [...]

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Update: Click here to see the video interview As I mentioned in a couple of previous posts, tonight’s the night to interview Alex the Atheist in front of 3 of our high school small groups tonight. While I’ve been thinking about this interview for a couple of weeks, today I’m putting the questions on paper. [...]

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