I love Fridays… but not for the reason you’d think. Most Fridays at camp, we’re getting ready for hundreds of students to arrive. Today, there are more than a thousand middle- and high-school students on their way to camp.
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When the art of good-enough isn’t good enough.
As part of our commitment to getting better every day, we slowed down for a bit this week to evaluate our current Winter Teen Retreat programming with the idea that good enough wasn’t good enough in mind. How could it be better?
How to make your adult leaders the real rock stars at your next retreat
Ok, so you’ve got the students all registered; the vans are ready to roll; paperwork is in; you’re headed to what looks to be an awesome weekend retreat with your students… but how do you make sure your adult leaders are fully equipped and set up for success? Here are ten tips for youth pastors to do just that.
I’m a control freak.
Seriously. I like it when things are under control… under my control. But when something outside my control is headed my way, here are four things I do to help me (a control freak) deal with the uncontrollable.
Camp is over. Now what?
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?