Come back!

by admin on November 20, 2009

Well, it seems that it is almost time for a comeback here on YouthMinBlog.com!  So what do you think?  How can we encourage you?  How can we help you?  What types of issues do we need to be talking about here? Let’s hear it, there are nearly 200 subscribers out there, make your voices heard!

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A Reader’s Question

by admin on October 9, 2009

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Let’s take a little departure from small groups today so we can try to give a  fellow youth worker a little help.  So what do you think, do you have any suggestions or encouragement for this youth worker?

I am struggling in my youth ministry. I have been involved in youth ministry for over 10 years off and on but always as the assistant, not the “youth pastor.” Well, now I am the youth pastor but I also have a “real job” which is important because my son gets rather grumpy when I can’t feed him. My youth ministry is struggling due to my lack of time and I am frustrated beyond belief.

I think that someday God might lead me to a senior pastor position but right now I can’t see anything that fulfills my life more than my wife, my son and my youth ministry.

Do you have any suggestions for helping bi-vocational youth ministers to still have a thriving youth ministry?

As always, feel free to send in your own questions via the contact page!

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4 Jobs of a Small Group Leader

October 8, 2009

Job #1–Care
You know the old saying, right? “They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
It really is that simple, but how do we let them know how much we care? I’d like to suggest that we can break this down into two basic areas:
Be There
Being there is…well, it’s [...]

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Too Small For Groups?

October 7, 2009

Recently I’ve talked about the small groups component of our youth ministry with a couple of different groups of youth workers. Each time I’ve had someone say something like “well, if we had more students we’d do that” or “our ministry is too small for something like that.” I totally understand! That’s exactly what I [...]

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What I Look For In Small Group Leaders

October 6, 2009

I am a passionate, firm, enthusiastic, devoted believer in small group ministry for youth. I was able to start a youth ministry fifteen years ago with small groups as a key component right at the beginning, and spent those following years learning about and sharpening this crucial aspect of youth ministry. I come away from [...]

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Small is BIG

October 5, 2009

For a long time I struggled with getting small groups started at a church that doesn’t really subscribe to the whole “home group” idea. That was my whole perception of what a small group had to be: meeting at home with a group of eight students or so and having “small group” discussions.  Now [...]

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