Recently while sitting at a round table discussion with several youth pastors, I was surprised when one of them declared, “I hate small groups, they never work, and so we don’t bother to have them anymore.â...

I was talking about the power of written communication with students in group this week.  We were discussing pros and cons about using social media, texting, and direct messaging to talk to each other. One ex...

My job, vocation and calling for more than two decades has been in youth or family ministry. These days, not only do I work with families, I live with a youth group. My children are in seventh, eighth and ninth...