“Graduating seniors report that service and mission trips are two of the top experiences they wish they had more of in their youth ministry.” — Kara Powell “If all we can do in the short time we’ve got students is to form them as young people with humility, we will have formed them well for the next...

Called but Not Committed: Kenda Creasy Dean Says Youth Workers Can Help Kids Be More than ‘Almost Christian’

There are zillions of activities, games, curricula, resources and methods youth workers can use; but which are really the best? To find out, we asked nine youth ministry veterans to pick their “Best of the Best.”

How these church youth groups created their names -- and great ideas to name yours.

For 25 years, YouthWorker Journal has promoted professionalism in youth ministry. To find out how things are progressing, we spoke with four pros: Mark DeVries, Danny Kwon, Andrew Root and Dan Kimball.

Youth spend far more time in school than church. Yet, most youth workers rarely set foot inside their local schools, leading some to argue that our schools are the church’s forgotten mission field.

I first met Amber when she attended one of our ministry’s summer mission trips as a guest. Every night, when our mission team gathered to debrief, Amber rapidly would ask a series of questions. Wrestling with those questions throughout the week fueled tremendous spiritual growth in Amber.

Though no is a short word, many people in ministry find it difficult to say. Saying no is an important aspect of dealing with stress and preventing burnout, as we see from this conversation with Greg Cootsona, author of Say Yes to No (Doubleday).

As many as one in 200 children and adolescents have OCD; and according to the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, between seven and 12 million American youth suffer from mental, behavioral or developmental disorders at any given time. Besides OCD, such disorders include depression, attention...

Being a teenage girl today is tough. Every day, girls encounter a multitude of conflicting messages about their identity, sexuality and worth that they struggle to process. In the midst of this chaos, youth ministries can provide a safe haven for girls to discover who they are and experience genuine...