Resources for the Youthworker to Thrive
Great talk by Rodger Nishioka on “Essential Strategies for the Practice of Youth Ministry”. He does some ‘group work’ conversations so be prepared to scan ahead. Or you could even prep for his activities and watch this talk with your leadership team doing the activities.. Okay, you’ll be like me
Many times you hear of the need to bridge the youth with the older adults of the church to build the community of faith. We have heard the warnings of having a solo youth ministry that is not ingrained in the church becoming a ‘one eared mickey mouse’ detached from
Introducing GREEN Green is a 3 week series on removing some of the clutter in our physical and spiritual lives that doubles as a service project. As you progress through the series, you’ll be gathering donations that can be passed along to a local shelter or mission when you’re done.
Let us be honest with one another. Youth ministry as it is most often lived out today is really a series of adult controlled environments strung together with the hope (and expectation) that youth lives will be transformed. Maybe I am the odd ball here but when it comes to
Had a chance back in the fall to stick my head in and out of this Wesleyan Leadership Conference. I would have attended fully had it not been for a DevoZine planning ‘retreat.’ The conversations were great between the attendees and led to some really great work. The keynote speaker
Our Daily Spends do not just Affect our Money, but they Affect How We Love Our Neighbors! Within this 3 Week Series we will begin to start the conversations and awareness that our consumption, and innate part of our life and critical to our economy. This also has suggestions for
I am looking for some pictures of this prayer station in our sanctuary, but until then, a photo from the set up in our youth room will have to do. Ash Wednesday is that cool worship service that comes at the beginning of Lent and the congregation gets to have
I was reading again tonight an article that highlighted some of the failings of youth ministry as it is practiced today in the context of the western world, suburban, affluent church. Okay, maybe not all those categories accurately describe all crisis areas, but it does seem to be the contextual
When I grew up the cello was not an instrument of cool and amazing potential. I believe the only cool cello in my adolescence was the one that the James Bond girl in “Living Daylights” (circa 1987, had to look it up, even much older than I thought).
The NY Times ran an article the the other day a bout the trend of teenagers showing their love & dedication by sharing of passwords. So romantic, you can sing along with me Well, I know it’s kind of late I hope I didn’t alert you But what I got
Sometimes you have a need to get youth or adults to sign up for events but cannot or don’t want to wait around till the next gathering time to have that done. Doing something like that online used to be a coders only kind of job, not so anymore. With
I am thoroughly intrigued by this ‘ministry’ of training up exorcists and specifically using teenage girls as exorcists. ‘When people call for an exorcist, they don’t picture a 16-year-old high school girl.’ .. ‘We have found that our female, teenage exorcists are particularly effective at curing the possessed,’ says
