This fall our ministry is launching a couple new high school small groups and I want to make sure our leadership team does all it can to ensure that they are…

Today Brian Eberly joined us for our LIVE YM Talk and led us in a discussion about the importance of building a youth ministry team. Although most of us are…

Here’s 10 ideas for building a solid team of adult leaders who are committed for the long-haul.

Tomorrow’s LIVE YM Talk is going to be a lot of fun!
First of all, my wife, Dana Schmoyer, will be the featured guest and will share from her experiences…

Someone recently emailed me with some good questions about my youth group’s vision to go Deep and Wide. Thought I’d share them with you here, along…

Today in our LIVE YM Talk, Rob Kashow talked with us about teaching theology in youth ministry. We didn’t get into any theological debates, but we did…

A month ago I shared the results of our high school ministry evaluations and how our large-group meeting time seemed to have almost no spiritual influence in…

Here are 5 essential pieces of equipment for my youth group’s summer ministry. What’s essential for you?

If you’ve read Simple Church, by Thom S. Rainer and Eric Geiger, then you probably know where this student ministry counterpart is going. However, unlike…

After all the comments from last week’s post about Seven Benefits of Shutting Down Youth Ministry Programs for the Summer, I figured I’d add a…