The Foundational Why

September 29, 2009

As I write this, I imagine you and I sitting across the table from each other. We are enjoying a nice lunch (you pick the restaurant) and talking youth ministry. As we are talking, you ask me about something you have been thinking a lot about lately, “How do I find the right youth ministry [...]

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Simple Follow-up

September 24, 2009

Follow-up is very important. But just because it is important does not mean all youth ministries do it well. I have learned that good follow-up does not have to be complicated. Today, I’d like to share a few simple ways your youth ministry can follow-up with a student without needing to hire a PR person.
Methods [...]

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A Family Affair

September 18, 2009

The most important thing I’ve learned regarding rites of passage in our youth ministry is that it’s important to involve the entire church.
Whenever there’s a baptism or a confirmation we stress the importance of the entire church body being involved in the celebration. When students graduate, the whole church gathers to pray for them.
This became [...]

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Worth Celebrating?

September 17, 2009

This week, we’re talking about rites of passage here on the YouthMinBlog.  Instead of talking about specific ways to celebrate milestones, I thought I would take a step back and look at some milestones that are worth celebrating (and some that are not).
Milestones worth celebrating:
1. Becoming a Teenager.
Turning 13 is a big deal. It only [...]

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Celebrate the Moments

September 13, 2009

I can remember having to put together a whole rite of passage project for students “coming of age” when I was in the School of Youth Ministry at Christ for the Nations Institute in Texas.  It was my last year as a student at CFNI and this was the big project for a class called [...]

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Parental Relationship Sabotage

September 11, 2009

Some youth workers can sabotage their ministries by sabotaging their relationship with parents. Here are three ways to do that…
1. Become a self-proclaimed authority on raising teenagers.
If you want to ruin your relationship with parents quickly, pretend you know how to raise their teenagers. This works especially well if you do not have teenagers of [...]

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