Jim Burns

If someone knows a simple definition of family-based youth ministry, please send it right away. I've read (and enjoyed) most of the books written on the subject. In fact, I can still remember reading Mark DeVries' book Family-Based Youth Ministry the very week it was published. I said then and maintain...

One of the simplest yet best ministries youth workers can have is to come alongside the parents of students in their group and offer guidance for family devotionals. Most parents don’t know where to begin. I literally have handed parents teen devotional books or youth ministry curriculum and challenged...

The bottom line in youth ministry is not how many students you have participating in your youth group right now. It’s where those students will be in five or ten years. If they have integrated their life into the church, then their youth ministry experience has been successful. If, like so many students,...

YouthWorker Journal is pleased to welcome Jim Burns back to our pages. Many of you already know about Jim and his decades of work with youth ministry, churches, and families. For the rest of you, here’s a crash course. Dr. Jim (he has a Ph.D. in religious education from England’s Greenwich School of...