Student leadership Category

At What Age?

In: Life, Student leadership

At what age can a student begin to learn leadership? Why do people think it’s age that allows you to be a leader? I believe that leadership is a set of principles that you live out in life experiences. These principles are universal truths and many of them are found in scripture; for example, navigating [...]

Leadership Team Basics

In: Student leadership, Youth Ministry

When we want to start a student leadership team we need to consider a few things. First we need to consider what kind of team we want to have and the purpose for the team.
Types of Leadership teams are listed below:
Event Team – focuses on leading events for the youth ministry.

Ministry Team – focuses on [...]

Permission

In: Student leadership, Youth Worker

I like to challenge students mostly because it allows them to see their potential. When students understand their potential you sometimes can’t stop how big they will dream. BUT challenging students can be difficult without a relationship and permission. Now I am sure you get the relationship part: students have to know you love and [...]

How Could Things Be Different?

In: Student leadership, Youth Ministry

Say you had 5 strong jr. and sr. high student leaders in your ministry. How would your ministry be different? Most of the time when I ask youth workers this questions they say, “it would make a huge difference.” So when I ask what are they doing about developing a few students as leaders, they [...]


Leadership Training for Youth Workers

Where I’ll be…

  • January 27-February 3, Trip Leader Training Shenyang, China
  • Feb 26-March 1, Simple Youth Ministry Conference, Chicago, IL
  • March 17-19 Capacity Conference, LeaderTreks, Carol Stream IL
  • April 21-23 Leadership Design, LeaderTreks, Carol Stream, IL
  • September 13-15 LifeWay National Youth Worker Conference, Nashville TN

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