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Mel Walker
“Do you want to go large?” asked the clerk. I was at a drive-through window. This time I turned her down, but more often than not our...
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Jennifer Bradbury
Caitlyn is a seventh grader in my youth ministry. Every Sunday, you can find her at our youth worship service, eager to learn and grow...
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Paul Asay
Ten Young Life employees in North Carolina either were fired or resigned late last year, apparent casualties of an effort by the organization...
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Anita K. Palmer
What are the key issues and trends for youth ministry workers in church settings? Here’s what our four experts told us:
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Ron Jackson
YouthWorker Journal: What do you see as the key opportunities and challenges for youth ministry today?
Here’s what our four experts...
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Seth M. Vopat
As I moved into college I began to feel a call to full-time youth ministry. However, as I expressed this call to one of my mentors...
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Shoahannah's Hope, a ministry leading the "Change for Orphans" campaign, recently raised $340,000 to benefit 100 families. The organization...
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Mark Oestreicher
I’ve been working with young teens in the church for about 25 years. These days, it feels as if I spent about 22 or 23 of those years building my knowledge, experience and expertise—and I’ve spent the last two or three of those years discovering what an expert I am not. The change? My own daughter is now 14 years old.
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Syler Thomas
In my last column (January/February 2008), I tried to make the case that longevity in youth ministry is something to be desired. Youth workers have a reputation of being transitory, which ends up limiting...
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When Jesus told His disciples, “In my Father's house are many mansions” (John 14:2), did He foresee that nearly 2,000 years later a specialized form of work called “youth ministry” would be conducted by many thousands of people in many hundreds of church denominations and parachurch organizations?
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Greg Stier
From the green revolution to “Starbucks spirituality,” today’s teens are actively formulating their own unique perception of reality. Keeping a pulse on teen trends can offer valuable insights for how...
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Chad Miller
Almost 21 million. That’s how many tweens there are in the United States right now. How can we best reach them with the gospel of Jesus Christ? Tweens are defined as children between the ages of 9-14. You and I know them primarily as our middle schoolers or junior highers: those too old for children’s ministry but still too young for senior youth ministry group. They are the kids who are beTWEEN childhood and high school.
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Jennifer Bradbury
There are more than 1,500 multi-site churches in this country, according to some estimates. Multi-site churches launch new campuses as they grow, reaching out in a new region. They become one church with...
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Christine Albrecht
The youth ministry model that rocked my world during high school—not so many years ago, or at least it doesn’t feel like it—doesn’t work with Catholic youth these days. Teens in the Roman Catholic Church seem different, because they are, says Kris Walters, coordinator of youth ministry at Holy Trinity in Lenexa, Kansas. She credits a generational shift. There is “more of a thirst for the sacred and a search for meaning within that sacred,” said Walters.
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Dove Award nominees Go Fish are once again generating a buzz on YouTube.com with “The Mom Song,” a cleverly comedic tribute arriving online just in time for Mother’s Day. Written by Go Fish founder Jamie Statema and his wife Julie, and featured on the group’s Snazzy recording, the song has received more than 11,000 hits since being posted on YouTube two weeks ago.
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Youth group security is a hot topic among student ministry workers. Listen to Jeff Trenham, children's...
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Creative, entertaining, and very funny video spoof of the movie that shows youth ministry can be hip...
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Watch footage of "I've Got a Secret" when 11-year-old Keith Green revealed he'd signed a five-year record...
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