Today in our LIVE YM Talk, Joshua Griffin, high school pastor at Saddleback Church, talked with us about working with high school students. The present both unique challenges and opportunities that are unlike anything else in jr. high ministry, college ministry or even adult or childrens ministry. Josh answered questions of other youth workers from his heart and experience.

Some of the things we talked about:

• Unique challenges and opportunities of high school ministry
• Helping freshman transition into high school
• Ways to keep upperclassmen engaged in youth group
• Balancing marriage and ministry
• And a lot more…

You can listen to the whole conversation below or grab it in iTunes.

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Next week’s discussion

May 29: Mike King is talking with us next week about adolescent development and how it impacts their growth and learning. It should be a great discussion to help us know how teenagers grow and learn and how we can best capitalize on that in youth ministry. See the LIVE YM Talk page for details on how to join us.

Join our next LIVE Youth Ministry Conversation!

• Podcast: High school transitions, time management, pastor’s kid goes to a different youth group
• Podcast: Working with cross-cultural students and minorities at youth group
• Podcast: Issues surrounding separate jr. and sr. high youth ministries
• Podcast: Are youth events still working?
• Podcast: Using media in teaching students