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I Found The Best Bible Study Curriculum
I can remember as a Youth Director several years ago spending hours at our local Christian book stores looking for something fresh and engaging to use to help teach my teenage friends the Bible. I tried all kinds of curriculum and even came up with some of my own. My “Seinfeld” Sunday School [...]
My Plan For Selling Weekend Camp
I’ve been working on a plan to sell our weekend trip to Southwind, so we fill all our spots quickly. Here’s what we’re planning to do.
Pray about it a lot!
Announce at Club – We started doing that last night. Our camp dates are Dec. 3-5 & the 4th is an SAT test date. [...]
Your Church Youth Group Doesn’t Have To Suck!
Only about one in four teens now participate in church youth groups, considered the hallmark of involvement; numbers have been flat since 1999. Other measures of religiosity — prayer, Bible reading and going to church — lag as well, according to Barna Group, a Ventura, Calif., evangelical research company. This all [...]
A Third Kind of Youth Ministry
Just read a blog post – The Youth Ministry Gap.
The gist of it is that when the words “Youth Ministry” are uttered, it could actually mean 2 different things.
1. “Professional Vocational Youth Ministry” which he say is 20% of the workers.
This youth ministry is pretty sophisticated. Like any profession people fall into schools of thought. [...]
Cabin Time Questions For Ordinary Club Talks
Help for Young Life Leaders NOW has some great advice for weekend camp speakers.
I recently spoke at a YL weekend camp. One of the best pieces of YL camp speaking advice I ever received was to plan your cabin time questions before you plan your talk.
That is outstanding advice, but reading the post gave me [...]
The Psychologist Skit
We just did this skit on Monday. It is my favorite to do and had the kids cracking up.
Mr. Tolson is knocking at the door on the door of Dr. Roberts, the in-house psychologist.
Dr. Roberts: Mr. Tolson
Mr. Tolson: Are you Dr. Roberts?
Dr. Roberts: Yes, come in. Please have a seat. Sorry [...]
Gospel-Centered Everything…Even Topical Discussions
I’ve had some great discussions over the past year or so about making Jesus central to every Young Life talk we do. That’s easy most of the time, but challenging when it comes to particularly the Sin talk – telling kids about our separation from God due to our sinfulness. But still, Jesus is & [...]