Last Monday, Walt Mueller of CPYU joined us for LIVE YM Talk. I collected several questions from you all in the weeks leading up to this conversation and we had a great time picking his brain for answers along with many other youth workers who also had good insights.

Some of the things we talked about:

• How youth workers can stay up-to-date with constantly changing social media and communication.
• Addressing the consumeristic mindset teens have about church.
• Where youth ministry needs to change for the upcoming generation of students.
• Ways to take teens deeper when they really don’t want to go deeper.
• 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

December 14: This Monday our featured guest is John Mulholland. He recently separated his jr. high and sr. high ministries, so we’ll use his experience to spark a conversation about issues surrounding separate jr. and sr. high youth ministries. 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!

We have a couple exciting LIVE YM Talks coming up! If you haven’t joined us yet on Mondays at 2:00 PM, it’s always a great conversation among youth workers from all over the country. We gather together in an online chat room and on the phone to learn from each other.

We have two exceptionally good talks coming up the next two weeks.

Answering recent questions and debates from MinistryQuestions.com: Monday, November 30

Not sure why I didn’t think of this sooner. It just makes natural sense to do a Ministry Questions podcast where we discuss some of the recent questions, answers and debates posted to the site. So, this coming Monday we’ll be doing our first Ministry Questions LIVE YM Talk episode. We’ll probably make this a semi-regular discussion, so come be a part of the first one.

If you have some questions you’d like us to discuss together, get ‘em posted at MinistryQuestions.com sometime before Monday.

Q&A with Walt Mueller: Monday, December 7

Next Monday we have the tremendous privilege of having Walt Mueller, founder and President of the Center for Parent/Youth Understanding, join us for LIVE YM Talk. This will be a great opportunity for us to interact with him, ask questions, and pick his brain on issues relating to youth culture. If you’ve ever wanted to sit down and talk with Walt, this is your chance!

We’d like to have as many questions ready-to-go for Walt as possible, so if you have something you’d like to talk with him about, please post it in the comments below. This will both help us manage our time well and help Walt come as prepared as possible for you. It would be great if you could show up for the conversation and ask him your question yourself, but if you’re unable to, I’ll do my best to ask many of your questions as I can in your place. Either way, post them in the comments below between now and then.

How to join the LIVE conversations

To join the live conversation on Mondays, call 724-444-7444 and enter ID 19105#. Or, use the link on the LIVE YM Talk page to listen online and participate via the live chat room.

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I have two freebies for you guys this week! The first one is a listing of lots of worship praise songs in PowerPoint. If you’re like me, I usually type up the lyrics in PowerPoint but never bother to save it because “it’ll be a long time before we sing these songs again.” However, only a couple weeks later I’m like, “Ugh, I need that song again!” So, maybe this will save me some time, and you too! The slides are plain in black and white, which is good if you like it simple and also good so it’s easy to apply your own formatting. See a listing of free worship song PowerPoints here:

PowerPoint worship songs directory

The other freebie for today is from CYPU (Center for Parent/Youth Understanding). They’re giving away the latest quarterly edition of their youth culture journal, ENGAGE. You can download/read/print it out by clicking on the link below

This quarterly edition of ENGAGE

CYPU is in the process of evaluating the content and delivery of ENGAGE. Give it a read and then give them some helpful feedback in the CPYU Facebook group.

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Join our LIVE Youth Ministry Conversation today at 2:00 PM EST! The topic is, “Dealing with the demands of extra-curricular activities and how it effects our youth ministries.” Brian Ford recently wrote an article on this matter that circulated the Internet for a while, so he will lead our discussion. Join us using either your telephone or your computer microphone!