Student Ministry

Getting God

Colossians 2: 2-3 – I want them to be encouraged and knit together by strong ties of love. I want them to have complete confidence that they understand God’s mysterious plan, which is Christ himself. In him lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
That is my prayer for the teens at The [...]

Goodbye, Marko

You will be missed. I have to admit that I was not very familiar with YS or NYWC when Mike Yaconelli was at the helm. So I never felt the great sense of loss and wonderment about the future of YS when Yac died.
However, I get that sense now. There seems to [...]

Someone Pinch Me

Wow! I can’t believe that it has been almost a month since we moved down here to Cincy. We came down here to a house full of new friends ready to help us unpack. We quickly got everything unloaded from the truck and then was able to enjoy some delicious food made [...]

What R U Hearing from Students in your YG?

This is the reason why I am passionate about doing student ministry, why I love YS and why I am excited for this year’s NYWC.

HT to Gerrard Fess.

What A Ride

Life has been very crazy for me lately, but it has been a good kind of crazy. My daughter graduated from 6th grade, which means she is now a part of the youth ministry at our church. I have waited for this day since she was born. People told me that I [...]

NYWC 2009

This gets me excited for NYWC this year. I hope that I can go.

Why Do You Do It?

Youth Specialties is doing something new this year called “Youth Worker Appreciation Day” and here is the promo video for it. I don’t know about you, but it brought tears to my eyes. And it is yet another example of why I love doing student ministry.

HT to Adam McLane.

Race This Vol. 2

Simply Youth Ministry has so many great products that are created to help youth workers jobs easy. And they have some of the coolest games for youth groups. They just came out with the second version of their
Race This, which is such a fun game to play. If you have ever [...]

Youth Ministry’s Seven Biggest Words

I read the following article by Jeanne Mayo on the Simply Youth Ministry website and wanted to share it.
I just slipped away from our church gym to finish this column. I wish you could be with me for the experience. Our youth group is sponsoring our “first ever dodge ball tournament”…complete with enough [...]