Teams need champions. When a champion stands up they challenge the team and push them forward to greatness. I see the value in having a champion on a team and therefore want to teach students how to be champions. I like to teach them three keys: risk taking, problem solving, and conflict resolution. Risk Taking [...]

In youth ministry today there is a great debate, do youth workers want a conference or do they want training? To be fair most youth conferences say they do provide training. The truth is the training they provide is one-way. A speaker stands up and tells the audience what they think about a subject. In [...]

I have just spent the last few days at Leadership Network serving youth pastor teams by helping them create innovation in their youth ministries. It’s been fun and at times frustrating. The fun part is working with awesome folks who want to help students know Christ. The frustrating part is finding new innovations. Students are [...]

We all have budgets, resources given to us to make our ministries grow. It’s very important that our budget reflects our vision. If our vision is to build transformational relationships then our budget should have resources to take students out of food so we can hang-out and talk. But what happens when the church doesn’t [...]