Dennis Poulette joined us last Monday to talk about working with cross-cultural students and minorities at youth group. Dennis is a youth ministry professor at a seminary in Mexico, so being a minority himself down there, he’s quite familiar with how it feels and what it’s like to be that in youth ministry.

Dennis and many others in last week’s conversation added a lot of good insights and tips for working with teens who might be a little different from us.

Some of the things we talked about:

• Working with different value systems
• Helping different ethnicities feel welcomed
• Moving past potential language barriers
• Common mistakes to avoid
• 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 2: Next week’s guest is Dennis Beckner, a youth ministry volunteer at Saddleback, who will lead us in a discussion about, “Keys for successfully start in youth ministry as a volunteer.” 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!

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• Podtcast: Key steps for a successful start in youth ministry as a volunteer
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• Podcast: Mobilizing students to share their faith
• Podcast: Youth pastors working with senior pastors