Ministry opportunities come and go… they’ll always be there. May you find time to reflect on what’s really important in your life and then prove its importance by managing your life around those priorities.
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While you’re serving with people, believe in their gifts, value their contribution, do life with them and give them access to your life. During this time there will be occasions when you’ll get to “test” their loyalty. You’ll see how they respond when your back is against the wall and when you’re...
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Every time I talk about volunteers I tell youth workers that they need a Marv in their ministry. I tell them to go back to their church and find a senior citizen who has lived a long life with Jesus and isn’t afraid to tell the truth. That was Marv!
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The exchange of predictable for potential can enhance your youth ministry. If everything is predictable there’s no mystery, wonder, confusion or divine chaos that can lead to freshness, growth and change.
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Now accountability is a tricky word. It means nothing unless you’re honest. Most of the guys I know who have had major moral failure were in small groups. They just weren’t honest with their life.
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Attracting teenagers to a youth group isn't difficult with a little money. Students will always come to see a good show. But the fact is that life change happens in quality relationships and students cannot get that from the world.
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Some conflict creates such turmoil within your soul that you'll feel it in your body. It's difficult to not take criticism personally when you care deeply about what you're doing. You can't avoid conflict.
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What we have given them is a team to join (either junior high, high school or college), a house to live in (they live with families from our church) a community to belong to and training. It has been a great benefit to our church, our student ministry and to the interns as well.
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One of the areas that I’ve been trying to grow as a youth worker is to be more blunt and upfront with my questions and equally as assertive with my listening. I’ve really been learning that kids want to talk about their spiritual stories and feelings (especially those outside the church) but few...
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Anonymous
Monday, September 10, 2007
And maybe our first reaction to a disruption in the service is that God is up to something, instead of someone being distracting.
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