10 Tips for Youth Pastors: How to follow up after your retreat. It’s Monday morning and you’re still in your pajamas. So, now what? How do you capitalize on what your students learned this weekend, on what God did in their lives (and yours), and keep the momentum rolling?
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10 Tips for Youth Pastors: How to get more students to go on your retreat.
Planning ahead for an awesome retreat shows people that it’s a priority for your ministry, and that you’re not a last minute schmuck. So, here are my top ten tips to get more students to go to your retreat. They’re things I see working for the youth workers we partner with every weekend.
We are not a church without a pastor.
Although, when a church is without a pastor, we tend to focus on what we lack in terms of leadership, vision, and spiritual care… this time in between can also be a time for the church to shine.
The kind of work no bulldozer can do.
My brother tucked this old photo—from April, 1994—in my Christmas card this year. It was a strange collision of worlds to see myself, then a sophomore in high school, posing for a group photo after a weekend of service at SpringHill Camps where I am now one of the directors.
We’re going to make her beautiful again.
It was just over 20 years ago when a couple from church I hardly knew asked my brother and I to help them remodel their 100-year-old farmhouse. It started during a fundraiser for our youth group at church.