WHAT NOT TO DO:
1. Never stand in front of your congregation and make a plea for help. Don’t ask for anyone interested to contact you. You may get a…

Dacia Bryan, youth pastor at Higher Ground Pentecostal Holiness Church in Ahoskie, NC, wrote me with the following question:
“Should a portion of the…

Today over lunch with one of my adult volunteers we started talking about how different youth groups identify themselves different ways. It seems to us that our…

As I continue to settle in to my new youth ministry position I’m learning more and more about all the puzzle pieces God has here. Right now I feel like…

I don’t typically copy and paste someone else’s entire article as a blog post, but this one was just too good to pass up.
What Do Teenage Girls…

Sorry for missing last week’s Freebie Friday. With the recent move to Minnesota, unpacking, settling in and all that good stuff, blogging has obviously…

A reader-submitted question by Christina:
“I am a new youth pastor with my very first job and will be starting in a few weeks. I was wondering if you had…

A reader-submitted question: How do you handle discipline?
“I’ll give you some context to that question. I’m 25. I have worked in 3…

As I prepare to move to a new youth group in Minnesota, one of my first tasks is to establish a system for communication with a couple hundred students, parents…

An old post I wrote back in 2005 about youth ministry as an unbiblical position is gaining a lot of controversial attention.

Is it biblical for a church to pay…