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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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.
These pre-teen retreats are going to blow your mind.
Retreat content that doesn’t treat pre-teens like kids? Messages that engage them from start to finish? No one saying shhhh from stage? That’s impossible. Or, at least, you’d think it was.
Circle time and the call to worship
Several weeks ago I attended a seminar on creating effective experiences and environments… for preschoolers. I was the only guy in the room and the only person who wasn’t a preschool teacher. Frankly, I think it kind of threw off the presenter to have me there. Throughout the presentation, she awkwardly added phrases like, “and […]