Tim Schmoyer posted “Why I’d rather combine Jr. And Sr. High at Youth Group,” and outlined his reasoning. I want to respond with the opposite position. 1.) High school kids can leave a huge impact on jr. highers. I don’t…
Hosea 4:9 And it will be: Like people, like priests. I will punish both of them for their ways In class this morning, we discussed the Prophet Hosea [side note: I really like this class — surprise, surprise]. The professor…
I decided that once-a-quarter lunch meetings or monthly planning meetings with youth leaders wasn’t often enough to get the word out to them, so I decided to start writing (probably) monthly Youth Worker Development columns and sending them out in…
Missed Part I and Part II? During these months, I started to take solace in this quote: “I can’t apologize about where God is calling me.” I just didn’t know where God was calling me. That seems direct and to…
Missed Part I? The pastor had visions of a new building, with increased fellowship space, new offices and a new place for the youth ministry to call home. The existing youth space was the original sanctuary and had been renovated…