“Holy isn’t a state we achieve through an easy checklist of external behaviors. It’s a position we’re given—set apart for God’s use—and then we act out from there.”

Creating a Facebook Page is the perfect way to communicate with your youth group throughout the week. Facebook’s texting service is extremely limited. I use TxtSignal.com to broadcast text message announcements and last-minute reminders, cancel events, send daily devotional thoughts, run contests, share...

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 Duffy Robbins, author and speaker with more than 30 years of youth ministry experience to glean his hard-won wisdom and help you in your...

“In recent years, Facebook, Twitter, texting, email and mobile phones have made it very easy for more than a few of my ministry friends to pursue and nurture inappropriate relationships. Entering into a relationship with God through Jesus Christ and answering a call to youth ministry doesn’t serve as...

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.

“Whether you’re a first-year intern or a 25-year campus ministry veteran, you need to invest first in your relationship with Christ.”

Chap Clark (Ph.D., University of Denver) is the Vice Provost and professor of Youth, Family, and Culture at Fuller Theological Seminary, the senior editor of YouthWorker Journal, a Sojourner contributing writer and "Red Letter Communicator," and president of ParenTeen™ and HURT seminars. He is a speaker,...

Until we realize that our souls will wear out without refreshment from the Spirit of God, we have little chance of feeding others.

Five years later, Ragland remains a youth pastor with a day job, also known as a bi-vocational minister. Ministers such as Ragland are common in the South, where most churches have fewer than 100 members and can't afford to pay a full-time youth minister -- or senior pastor.