With all the tasks that we youth workers are charged with, our time gets quickly used up – and it can seem like there’s not enough hours in the day to do all that we’re asked.

It’s a new school year, which means that lots of families are checking out new churches for their teenagers. We used to not be very good at welcoming new visitors or friends brought by our students, but since we’ve made some simple changes, we’re seeing a changed atmosphere and a new passion for inviting.

Recently, a pastor friend of mine read for me Judy Brown’s poem “Fire.” Brown does a masterful job of capturing what our job as youth ministers should be: making space for God to do His work. She uses th...

The amount of things you want to change, that need to change in your youth ministry can be overwhelming. After every book you read, after every training you receive or conference you attend, you come home fille...

While I have a deep sense something is not right with our overly scheduled youth, I also have a deep sense God can and will meet my students on a sand bar, through the laughter they experience during a board game, and in Bible study and worship.

Teenagers scare people and yet most church folk have a hard time seeing what you do as God's work.

Service...it's better when it includes the whole family.

Now that I've learned how to do it well, delegation has created a richer student ministry, one that empowers the gifts of my students and volunteers.