We all want long-term, invested volunteer leaders in our ministries. We want to build a connected and cohesive team, willing to follow us.  I have people ask me all the time how I get to a point where I actu...

We lead people. That is what we do. More often than not, the term pastor in our leadership role in youth ministry is interchangeable with words such as leader or director. In fact, that might be the title t...

  Parents as youth workers. Does the sound of that idea make you quake in your Vans? It doesn’t have to. Parent volunteers can be our allies, our trusted group of faithful, hard working ministers whom...

Silly Sloppy Slingshot Scrabble is a favorite around my middle school and junior high ministry. It has taken on various forms and challenging levels, but it is a guaranteed blast! Supplies: - Water balloon ...

I think everyone knows the simple story of the “ugly ducking”. It is the story of a little lost egg that hatches into a family of ducks, only to realize that it does not look like any of them.  The story f...

The conversation would be similar each week as I walked through the plan for that night and it would always end the same before I left the office.  I be would asked about my lesson.  Each time I would hear th...

Why would we want to take a three-month break from our calling and the spiritual lives of students?

The Academy Awards swag bag, given to all the Oscar nominees, has reached an estimated value of $220,000 this year—nearly $100,000 more than last year.

A San Diego high school has come under scrutiny after parents learned that a transgender student, born female, has been using the boy's locker room.

We gathered a group of youth workers together to talk about their ideas for connecting with others in ministry.