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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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Paul Turner
It’s almost Go time. Your cast begins to assemble. On cue, the theme music blares as Gary the Game Guy enters with gadgets and gear to take on the fiercest junior high student. Striding behind him is Emily Empathy; she is the master of relationships and can make the new kid feel welcomed and the regulars feel like family. Enter Marty the Muse, guitar in hand, he sends the room into worship rapture. Finally, a man you simply call “The Voice” crosses the threshold of the youth room, prepared to deliver the message of the ages. Suddenly, you hear a voice that snaps you from your daydream, “Hey…yoo-who? They’re waiting.”
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Many times when intergenerational youth ministry is considered, what we really are asking is, Where can I get some adults to run small groups, teach a particular class, etc? We need to make this as relatively...
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Dr. Steve Vandegriff
OK. “Intergenerational youth ministry” may sound like an oxymoron, but think about it. What can be more normal than other generations being a part of ministry to young people/teenagers/students/adolescents/whatever? I’m not trying to return to back-in-the-day days, nor am I trying to sound culturally relevant, even though anyone who knows anything about youth ministry would know being culturally relevant is a youth ministry mantra. So let’s sound culturally relevant while suggesting some back-in-the-day common sense.
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Danette Matty
We all know friends, pets and even houseplants need care, but what about volunteers? Here, a veteran youth ministry worker provides a short list of ways you can express your care for your volunteers. Commandment...
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Dr. Allen Jackson
Not too long ago, I was flipping through the cable channel guide and found two movies playing on different channels. One was 50 First Dates and the other, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. It struck me funny that movies about the beginning and end of dating relationships were playing concurrently. It seems it is something like that in youth ministry. It is rare that I hear anyone say, “I wish qualified, willing, self-motivated, teachable, van-owning people would stop calling me to volunteer to be youth workers. I have all the help I need!” OK, I never have heard that.
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To put it mildly, the retiring professionals of today aren’t fulfilling Beatle Paul McCartney’s picture of the 64-year-old. We’re a different kind of graying generation. Walk by any clubhouse of an “active...
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Jonathan & Thomas McKee
Today’s 20-somethings, a group we call Generation @, includes people like LeBron James (born in 1984), Hilary Duff (born in 1987), and Lindsay Lohan (born in 1986). Are 20-somethings like these a good source of volunteers? Despite the sometimes negative headlines generated by some of the more well-known members of this generation, most of what we’re learning reveals this younger generation is volunteering in mass numbers. USAWeekend.com reported 30 percent of Gen @ (the 68 million people born between 1982 and 1994) are volunteering more than 80 hours a year. Let’s take a look at four characteristics of this frisky bunch, along with a few tips on harnessing the potential of this generation as volunteers.
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