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Should Your Youth Ministry Change to Adapt to Culture?

The front door of the church is no longer the front door to faith.

5 Ways to Generate Better Youth Ministry Ideas

Those are the ideas that just pop in your head, make your messages stick, your games fun and your camps awesome.

How to Start Off Right in a New Leadership Role

Make it clear what you’re looking for in team members.

5 Steps to Creating Highly Effective Meetings

Make meetings worth it by putting effort and energy into the preparation.

How to Effectively Reach Teenagers With Your Message

Teens don’t learn as much from adults as they do from other teens.

3 Important Traits of Good Youth Workers

A youth ministry team must have one mind, one vision and one goal.

Can the Students in Your Youth Group Lead?

Jesus left the entire church in the hands of young people.

How to Spot the Channels for Change in Students

Youth workers are in the transformation business.

5 Ways to Build Up Your Teens

Build up your teens and you’ll find the mood and morale of your ministry deepen.

Why You Should Stop Telling Students to Invite Their Friends

It’s high time for many of us to stop operating like the best first step to the faith is coming to a church service.

3 Keys to Successful Follow-up

If we fail to have a process or system for how we are trying to be successful in follow-up, chances are that we won’t be as successful as we could have been with a process or system in place.

5 Strategies to Help Fight Your Pre-Youth-Group Funk

As youth pastors, we need to be aware of the “stuff/Satan” that is trying to take us down before youth group.

How to Deal With the Competition

Youth ministry is always going to have competition.

5 Ways to Annoy Your Volunteers

For volunteers to thrive, we have to work hard to limit how often we frustrate them while we maximize the ministry time they are donating to the mission.

5 Things Healthy Leaders Do Consistently

I am always trying to improve my leadership.

4 Effective Ways to Recruit Volunteers

By knowing what’s most effective, you’ll know where to pour most of your energy.

How to Challenge Your Own Leadership

Challenges to our leadership actually can make us grow.

10 Don'ts of Leading a Small Group

Being an effective small-group leader means doing a lot of things well; it also means NOT doing a lot of things.

Sean Feucht, Eric Metaxas, and Russell Johnson Set To Lead ‘United...

On Thursday (April 25), political activist Sean Feucht will lead a “United for Israel March” at Columbia University alongside author Eric Metaxas and Pastor Russell Johnson of The Pursuit Church in Seattle, Washington.

Steve Robinson: How To Create a Culture of Service in Your...

Steve Robinson joins “The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast” to talk about how church leaders can foster a culture of serving in their churches, raise up new leaders, and help people discover their giftings.

Articles for Youth Leaders