Dear Youth Worker, I wanted to take a moment to say, “You are doing a great job.” My daughter loves coming to your group and she has friends there. I love that she loves to come to church. I truly apprec...

I can’t change my story, but I can leverage it for the good of the Kingdom. My life has been tragedy free for the most part. But one season of life makes me quiver inside just reflecting back upon it. Let me...

For many youth ministries, every fall offers the same challenge: clashing schedules of the sports students play and the youth ministry calendar.

If my goal was for students not just to learn Bible stories, but to engage in the Bible, things needed to be handled a little differently.

The longer I'm in youth ministry, the more I wish I'd had a better understanding of myself when I started.

Had we just pulled off a successful outreach event? Yes. Did I care? Nope. I was tired of ministry, wondering how it had gone from something I loved so dearly to something I resented so fiercely.

    As a youth worker for the past twenty-five years I feel like I’ve seen it all. Well, almost. And what I haven't seen I’ve experienced first hand as the son of two youth workers. The sadd...

  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...

If you were expecting something other than rejection, you probably should consider a different profession. It is par for the course, a when and not an if.

In ministry, everything does not always go the way we would like. Sometimes things break down and go so wrong, and we can’t fix them. I recently was on a trip that bombed, and I don’t handle failure well. A...