Last Monday the youth pastor at NewSpring Community Church, Brad Cooper, joined us for LIVE YM Talk to discuss our topic of, “Leading a team of volunteer youth workers.” As a youth pastor who works with hundreds of teenagers and adult leaders, he shares from his experience about how to lead a team of leaders.

Some of the things we talked about:

• Setting expectations for adult leaders
• The process of “basic training”
• Helping leaders use their gifts and passions within the ministry’s vision
• Moving leaders through “Direction, Coaching, Supporting, Delegating”
• And a lot more…

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

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Next Monday’s discussion

November 30: Next week we’re doing our very first MinistryQuestions.com episode where we’ll be answering recent questions and debates from MinistryQuestions.com. If you’d like us to discuss your question, post it at MinistryQuestions.com between now and then. The show starts at 2:00 PM eastern time. Call (724) 444-7444 and enter ID 19105#, or use the link on the LIVE YM Talk page to listen online and join the chat room.

Join our next LIVE Youth Ministry Conversation!

• Podcast: How to be a volunteer and still have a full time job and a family
• Podcast: How to find and determine the Lord’s leading to a healthy church ministry
• Podcast: The importance of building a youth ministry team
• Walt Mueller and MinistryQuestions.com coming up in LIVE YM Talk
• Podcast: Answering questions and debates from MinistryQuestions.com #2