I have found in life most people fall into two categories: dreamers or drainers. Drainers are focused on themselves, they think about how everything affects them, they never ask other people questions, they complain when people don’t care about them, they take and don’t give, self pity is their drug of choice and often they [...]

I have spent the past 20 years thinking about leadership development in the youth ministry context. My thinking has been student leadership teams create the best structure of developing students as leaders. On teams, students must work together, creating natural leadership roles; they must make decisions together, forcing them to come to consensus; and they [...]

Her name was Karen and she was unhappy with me and the world. She was an adult placed on my volunteer team by my sr. pastor because she had a bad experience with a previous youth worker. The pastor thought that if she was placed on the team her past hurt would be healed. She [...]

I was in a meeting this afternoon where we were planning a new brochure for LeaderTreks. Often these meeting go for hours with lots of ideas and differing options. The meeting today was different; we had one great idea and clear consciences about what content needed to be in the brochure. So I did something [...]