Youth Ministry Tip # 11: Is apathy affecting any area of your life? Personal, Family, Church, Ministry? Apathy is contagious and will affect every or your life and ministry. Fight apathy by seeking God’s Truth with Passion! Your teens are fighting it and if you are in a place in ministry where your are so [...]
Youth Ministry Tip #10: Invest in interns for your ministry. Investing in people that are investing in your ministry will reach more people with greater impact. I have been using interns in my youth ministry for years and I wouldn’t have it any other way. It is great to be able to pour into young [...]
Youth Ministry Tip # 9: Eating Gross Stuff! Before you have your students or leaders eat gross stuff make sure that you have checked to see if they are allergic to any foods! You sure would hate to have someone get sick because they were allergic to dairy or peanuts. What kind of medical release [...]
Here is a basic outline for a youth message on making life transformation Revolutions in their lives.
Title: New Year’s Revolutions
Idea: Make a Revolution in the way you live rather than just a resolution.
People view a revolution as a major change or transformation and they
view resolution as an attempt to try and do better [...]
Youth Ministry Tip #7: Instead of asking your students what they learned, ask them what questions they have about what you taught.
How many times have you stood before teenagers and ask them what they learned last week or what they remember? Probably more than you should have. Usually you get the [...]
Ok, I will have to give props to our Worship Pastor Aaron Leeds for this one. We had a game where we wanted people to come up front and try and answer some cool trivia questions about Christmas. We thought of having them raise hands and see who did it the quickest then [...]
Youth Ministry Tip #5: Don’t do ministry tasks that you can get leaders/volunteer’s to do. Invest your time in growing your volunteers. So many times in ministry we think it is not only easier but more effective if we do tasks ourselves. We know it takes time to teach someone to do something [...]
Why is it that when our husband/wife doesn’t do something the way we want, when we want we feel angry and frustrated? Why is it when someone forgot to take out the trash that instead of thinking, “I know they must of just forgot, if I ask them nicely I am sure they will [...]
You definitely want to have some time for messy, crazy games. Of course when you have a messy game you will need to make sure you have the proper cleaning supplies ready. The proper cleaning supplies include: plastic for the floor, large trash cans, paper towels, and a sham wow. [...]
Youth Ministry Tip #2: Get to Know Jesus, who He is, why He did what He did, and why He had to die on a cross to forgive our sins. The more you know Jesus the more your students will.
The heart, vision, and purpose of youth ministry is to enable our students to Get to [...]
Youth Ministry Tip #11: Care about Apathy!
Youth Ministry Tip #10: Invest in interns for your ministry.
Youth Ministry Tip # 9: Eating Gross Stuff!
American Idol, Tasha Layton and Worship Pastors
Youth Ministry Tip #8: Have New Year’s Revolutions in your life instead of Resolutions!
