This is an activity to do with your adult volunteers to help them see how important discipleship is to student leadership development. Purpose: Discuss the impact discipleship has on leadership. Directions: You can use this sheet with your adult volunteers to facilitate discussion. Hand this sheet out and have them read the verses together out [...]

We are busy people and we move from one activity to another. Often we race home from work, grab a quick bite and run off to youth group. Issues from work and home still in our heads. We try and connect with a few students but our minds are somewhere else. To help bring you [...]

Its the start of a new ministry year. Soon we will have the kick-off meeting with our youth ministry volunteers. When staff care for each other, powerful ministry will happen. When they don’t, people will run for the door. Use this assessment to gauge how your volunteers feel about working on your team. This will [...]

For small groups to work in a youth ministry the small group leaders need to be coached. Too often we say to our adult volunteers, “go lead this small group of guys.” We don’t give any training and we don’t check in with them to see how it’s going. This leads to ineffective small groups. [...]