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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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.
Review: Youth Ministry in a Post-Christian World
This is, without a doubt the best book on youth ministry I’ve read in over a decade.
A really, really compelling reason to say YES.
We ask them for ideas, inspire them to dream, tell them Jesus wants to do something amazing through them… and then tell them no way. It costs too much. It’s too hard. It’s not fun for me. I’m busy. I’m tired. Maybe next year.
What I learned from See You at the Pole.
We’d pray for our classmates, our teachers, our school, our government, and our nation. People who I had never heard pray out loud prayed out loud. And in the end, we all ate donuts and went to class as usual.