Our Founder

Tim Schmoyer is the founder of Life In Student Ministry and is dedicated to facilitating discussions among Christian youth workers about youth ministry. He is the author of the Youth Specialties/Zondervan book, “Life In Student Ministry: Practical Conversations on Thriving in Youth Ministry,” a national youth leader trainer, speaker, and a super-volunteer at his church.

Our Writers

Adam Wormann served as Pastor of Student Ministries in central New Jersey for about 10 years before changing direction into the world of online marketing. He continues to stay involved in the world of student ministry, is one of the Life In Student Ministry Mentors, and is the editor of the “Time Out” series here. He also speaks at churches, retreats, and conferences.  You can follow him on Twitter or his blog.

Jonathan McKee is the author of numerous books including the brand new, “Ministry By Teenagers,” Connect: Real Relationships in a World of Isolation,” and the award winning book, “Do They Run When They See You Coming?” He speaks and trains at camps, conferences, and events across North America, and provides free resources for youth workers internationally on his website, TheSource4YM.com.

Mark Riddle: My life is an attempt to live in the way of Jesus by hosting transformational conversations that honor people, being present with the people in front of me, and living a faithful story. I do this as a husband, father, friend, consultant, and writer. [ Follow Mark on Twitter and check out Mark's blog. ]

Tony Myles: Tony is an imperfect Christ-follower, passionate husband, humbled dad, Lead Pastor of Connection Church, volunteer youthworker, speaker, author, columnist, and smoothie addict. [ Check out his personal blog and follow him on Twitter. ]

Featured resources

Here are a couple resources you can check out to get started:

• Free ebook, 130 Youth Ministry Tips and Ideas
• Free youth ministry resource every Friday, Freebie Friday
• Live youth ministry conversations with other youth workers every Friday afternoon
• A free 10-week mentorship for those in ministry 2 years or fewer
• Short youth ministry training videos every week

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Other Projects

Besides Life In Student Ministry, LLC., we also have a couple other web projects.

• MinistryQuestions.com is a community of ministry workers online who invest into each other by asking questions, answering them, giving advice, support and encouragement.
• MinistryWebsites.biz is a small business that provides state-of-the-art websites in very user-friendly system for ministries. Proceeds there help keep the content at Life In Student Ministry, LLC. free.
• OnlineMissionsTrip.com is a “missions trip to Facebook” where youth groups all over the world join together to make an intentional effort for two weeks to share Christ with their unsaved friends using social media.

Contact Us

We love hearing from fellow youth workers! Feel free to contact us at any time with your questions, ideas, resources to contribute, guest posts, struggles, prayer requests, whatever. Our contact information can be found on the contact page.

God bless you for all you do for teenagers! Keep up the great work!

*All opinions on this site are our own and do not necessarily reflect the views of our churches nor ministries we serve.