This is a guest post from my friend Andy Blanks. When is a youth worker too old to be effective? I’ve noticed something that happens to us youth workers around our mid-30′s, or so. We find ourselves unable to naturally relate to teenagers. Most of us have reached a point where we don’t automatically pick [...]

1. Youth ministry is the ministry of students to their world Church paradigms must change; churches with ministries to students must transform and become student-led ministries to their world. 2. Youth workers are leaders God has called us to youth ministry and placed us in his church. He has also given us everything we need [...]

We all have a passion for students. We want them to grow in Christ and in community with each other. We are so committed to this we have given our lives so students can grow in faith. So how do we feel about their parents? You know, the ones God has called to be the primary faith influencer in [...]

My friend Mac Lake is a genius at mentoring. Mac and I were talking about how to organize a quality mentoring sessions, a simple way for a mentor to walk a mentee through a comfortable conversation. So often we get into a mentoring relationship and we don’t know what to say. So Mac developed this Five P question plan [...]