Posts Tagged With: Youth Ministry

It is NOT about Relationships

At least not just ANY relationship.  We can develop relationships all day long but if as Christians we are not modeling our relationship building after Christ then we ARE going to FAIL! We see in Matt 9, Mark 2, Luke 5 and 19 the types of relationships Jesus invested in, relationships with people who were hurting, [...]

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Loving All, All the Time

I had the privilege of serving with a man named Chris at NYWC  201o. Chris is a youth ministry vet who has been loving on kids for 20+ years and to call him a character would be the understatement of the century.   Personality is this man’s middle name and you cannot help but smile [...]

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Troubled

I spent the first three years of being a bonafide paid youth minister working in a church that was nestled in one of the worst communities in our city.  At its height, the community was a middle class , blue collar, family oriented community.  Through the years it became a rental community full of transients [...]

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Down from the Mountain

Having  just come back from an amazing weekend with our youth group it is an easy thing to get down.  After all we experienced coming back down to reality is a little depressing.  Most of us in the ministry recognize this as a mountaintop experience and understand the brutality of the realization that we have [...]

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Top Resources

A good friend was asking about what websites and resources I use in ministry. I honestly get a lot of creative stuff off  the internet and it is such a blessing to be doing ministry in a world where resources are readily available. After our conversation had gone on he suggested I do a blog. [...]

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