Thinking about what to teach and when to teach it isn’t the easiest thing to do in any ministry, but college-age ministry seems even more complex. The key to finding the right subject is understanding the issues people in our ministry are struggling with, and then hitting those head on—without...
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Anonymous
Friday, August 1, 2008
Do you frequently compare yourself to others? Are you trying to wear someone else’s armor? Follow the example of David: offer your gifts/talents to God, and expect him to use them as only He can.
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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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Anonymous
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Experiencing meaningful worship with a small youth group can be hard. Unless one of your teenagers is a future Chris Tomlin, the whole worship thing can feel awkward.
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You’ve likely heard for years that 88 percent of churched high schoolers drop out of the church—permanently—by the time they graduate from college. Well, we challenged a class of youth ministry students at Bethel College in Indiana to either debunk or support the claim
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Anonymous
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Wanna know what’s tougher than having “the talk” with your mom and dad? How about having “the talk” in front of millions of television viewers!
That’s exactly what MTV will do on their new show Sex…With Mom and Dad.
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Conversations can be the “meat and potatoes” of discipleship since they build community and develop spiritual understanding. We’re picking up where we left off yesterday and exploring a few ideas for leading better discussions:
ASK GREAT QUESTIONS
Asking good questions is a science and an art. We...
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When I was in college, I took a class on "Selling your student ministry." That wasn’t really the name of it, but it essentially taught us about bulletin boards, newsletters, promotional fliers—Youth Ministry Marketing 101. My perfectionistic tendencies went into overdrive in that class! We talked...
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Anonymous
Sunday, December 14, 2008
It’s all too common to see teenagers using MySpace and Facebook to share racy pics of themselves. Lately, teenagers are using a new tool for taking sexy photos of themselves to share with friends…and the rest of the world. Their cell phones.
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Anonymous
Monday, December 29, 2008
My youth group now? A big numbers night for us is...I shouldn’t tell you. What does it matter, really? Okay, just for the sake of comparison, a really big night for us is 10 kids, or whenever we have to pull up another couch when we’re hanging out in our Coffee Café. With everything else I have to...
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