it may be how you’re feeling today. You’re searching for a reprieve from the craziness of your life, but sitting here this moment, your to-do list screams in your ear. There is some great demand on your energy—your emotional energy—that like a wind that won’t stop blowing, threatens to knock you over.
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22 Reasons to Attend Open Youth Ministry: Grand Rapids
I’m starting to get really excited about Open Grand Rapids, and, since it’s being held on February 22nd, I thought I’d make a list of 22 reasons you should attend.
Don’t be a tool, or treat others like one.
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about my leadership style and method: how I treat the people on the teams I lead. My previous writing has left out the essential component of great leadership: Caring.
Youth ministry in times of transition.
This weekend I had the chance to sit down with three volunteer youth workers who were just coming out of significant times of transition in their churches. In listening to them share their stories, I could tell there was a whole range of emotion wrapped up in their experience.
TGIF. But not why you’d think.
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.