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Leadership

Putting your senior pastor in his place (part 2)

What a youth pastor takes as criticism from his senior pastor may actually be his pastor responding to something the youth pastor doesn’t see.

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Putting your senior pastor in his place (part 1)

We need to help our senior pastors find their place in the church.

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Why your church freaks out over “little things”

When anxiety runs high in a church or in a pastor, people overreact and sabotage themselves and each other.

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Characteristics of the church I work in next

I’m learning more about myself and how God’s wired me as a youth pastor. I’m not content with “normal” ministry.

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What churches say about values vs. what they do

Churches may have a stated mission, but their unidentified values often lead to decisions that conflict with what they say.

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Growing students into servants

A story of how one youth ministry helped an unsaved student grow as a disciple and start to serve in ministry.

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Finding elegant solutions to ministry problems (2 of 2)

Our task is to find elegant solutions that uses the least amount of resources and solves the problem. Here’s an example and how it applies to ministry.

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What is a student leader and why do we need them?

What is it called when we help teenagers grow, serve the kingdom and take ownership of their faith? Is that student leadership?

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Finding elegant solutions to ministry problems (1 of 2)

When faced with problems in ministry, our task is to find elegant solutions that uses the least amount of resources.

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Why you hate your church staff meetings

How a church spends its time in staff meeting reflects it true values, and those values often conflict with youth workers.

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