Relationally, if your students end their school year well it means the beginning of the next school year will start off well, too. Normally, students have a group of close friends they’ll connect with over the summer. But in general, there are going to be many...
A while back I was talking with a fellow youth worker at a bagel shop. Our discussion centered around the question: how do you know when God is moving you? It’s a good question and often asked when we feel the push to move on to a new ministry or call. As we...
It was a busy day for me, and it had a terrible night the night before too. I didn’t sleep well, snoring was happening and I’m not pointing fingers at anyone. I got up at 3:00am to get ready to go wait in line to get my youngest son into the preschool of my wife’s...
December is here and for many of us that means that there are many things to begin thinking about; summer schedules, retreats, upcoming sermon series, Christmas Eve services, budgets, and much, much more. All of those things are of immense importance BUT there is one...
The clocks rolled forward an hour here last weekend. It’s officially the ‘pointy’ end of the year in Australia, and often this means that term 4 holds a huge amount of transition and change for youth ministry. We start to hear of leaders moving on and out of the...
Every fall each of our ministries see a change where new students transition into Junior High within our churches. Many of us prepare for weeks, or the summer, for the new class of students that will walk into our doors at the end of August or early September. Within...
