I’ve been leading my junior high ministry for almost nine years now, and there is one type of leader I always have wanted to have and that greatly desired to become. I’ve always coveted a leader or two who had been doing youth ministry long enough and had enough life experience that they could speak...

Your ideas aren’t that new. What you’re doing has been done before—in a different way—and perhaps even done better. That’s OK. Our fresh ideas are products of many other bright ideas.

Terry is the Director of Ministries with Young People for the United Methodist Church and founder of the Youth Worker Movement. Terry has been in student ministry for more than 20 years and travels the country leading and teaching adult workers with students.

We talked to 10 youth ministry veterans (with a combined experience of 300-plus years!*) to glean their hard-won wisdom and help you in your work with young people. Pamela Erwin is an author and youth ministry professor, Bethel University, St. Paul, Minn., with more than 25 years of experience in her...

Ever wish you had your own personal youth ministry guru? YWJ talked to 10 youth ministry veterans, including Doug Fields, author and founder of Simply Youth Ministry and DougFields.com.

Ever wish you had your own personal youth ministry guru? Perhaps the next best thing is this YWJ youth ministry veteran, all-star, super-duper roundtable! We talked to 10 youth ministry veterans (with a combined experience of 300-plus years!*) to glean their hard-won wisdom and help you in your work...

For the longest time, I have tried really hard to relate to students. I have known that music was a very powerful gateway, and if I just had a little guidance I would be able to relate to them, to understand them, would be able speak their language. Even more than relating, I would be able to influence...

Jim Burns is senior director of the HomeWord Center for Youth and Family at Azusa Pacific University and the president of HomeWord and host of the "HomeWord with Jim Burns" radio program. His passion is communicating to adults and young people practical truths to help them live out their Christian lives....

The church has portrayed Jesus a type of spiritual super hero who came to rescue us from our sins. I believe this is a distorted view of what Christ came to do. The history of the incarnation and the struggle the early Church Fathers had regarding this issue seemed to divide them on how to describe the...

Surveys show that most organizations want older youth workers—usually early- to mid-30s, married with families. Some churches even want 40-year-old youth pastors. Calling has little if anything to do with age—yet we often let age determine our calling. It may be time to reevaluate your ministry with...