Top 10 ways to loose your job in youth ministry

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Top 10 ways to loose your job in youth ministry

Posted on March 19, 2007 by Tim Schmoyer | Print This Post

How to lose your job in youth ministry I don’t know where I originally got this. I was looking for something else on my computer when I stumbled across an old Word document from 2001 that contained this list. Thought might be a good way to start your Monday. :)

Top 10 Ways to Lose Your Job in Youth Ministry

If your going to lose your job, lose it in one of the top 10 ways!

10. Play Peanut Butter Chubby Bunnies to test the theory of this whole “Chubby Bunny” debate!

9. Leave your Pastor’s kid at an orphanage in Mexico on your annual mission trip.

8. Replace the grape juice with actual wine during communion (this would only really affect Baptists).

7. Teach girls how to smoke cigars and gamble their babysitting money in a game of poker at the girls junior high Bible Study (teaching them to tithe their winnings of course!).

6. Cut up the church’s choir robes to make flags for a capture the flag game.

5. Give your Sr. Pastor a free subscription to the Victoria Secret Catalog, sent to the church address!

4. Start a food fight at the annual church spaghetti feed!

3. Start a food fight during communion!

2. Finance the down-payment of your new mustang convertible through your youth petty cash fund.

1. Bring Bill Clinton out to speak at your True Love Waits Rally.

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6 Comments For This Post

Chris Campbell Says:
March 19th, 2007 at 7:21 am
Genius! lol
Jason Curlee Says:
March 19th, 2007 at 7:51 am
Way funny Tim, Way funny….LOL

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jeff @ smartpastor.com Says:
March 20th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Regarding #8 – Growing up Lutheran, doing the opposite would get you fired!
Tim Says:
March 20th, 2007 at 11:14 am
No grape juice for you guys, huh? :)
Kenneth Purdom Says:
December 7th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Cool – http://www.TrueLoveWaitsRally.com

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their hard work. 10 For if one of them should fall, the other one can raise his partner up. But how will it be with just the one who falls when there is not another to raise him up? – Ecclesiastes 4:9,10
Gary B. Says:
July 27th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
I actually know guys who have done 3 of these 10. — and kept their jobs (kind of…)

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R3 Says:
March 30th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
I found a link to this blog this morning on Monday Morning Insight. After reading this, everyone ought to send a thank you note to the youth pastor of your church for putting up with rigid adults and sour saints that continually hinder the vital ministry to our teenagers :)
Deep Thoughts by Gman Says:
April 2nd, 2007 at 3:17 pm
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March 30th, 2007 at 12:40 am
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