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Can Parents Trust Your Youth Ministry?

Every parent your ministry encounters is unique.

4 Tips to Help You Manage Your Time

There is this pressure in youth ministry to do it all; however, all that leads to is ineffective ministry.

Should There Be an Age Gap Between Youth Leader and Students?

The question is then how old a youth leader needs to be to be completely responsible, even spiritually.

Why Youth Ministry Should Be Fun

Fun is a God thing. God is the Inventor of fun.

5 Things You Should Experience on Your Sabbath

Too many leaders don’t even slow down enough to be faithful to God’s call for a Sabbath rest.

How to Deal With the Monsters in Your Small Group

When you were recruited to be a small group leader, they probably left out the training section on facing small group monsters.

4 Rules That Apply to Lessons and Games

The lessons you teach need to speak to the world junior highers find themselves navigating.

How to Avoid the Summertime Blues

To avoid these pitfalls and summertime blues, it’s important to treat summer as seriously as you do any other season.

A Case For Why Family Ministry Matters

The church of the first century were called to leave their earthly familial allegiances and to bond to one another as the new family of God.

This Question Saved My Ministry Over $2500

A budget-saving tip that's really as easy as it sounds.

5 Practical Ways to Keep Parents in the Loop

Do parents know whats going on in your ministry?

Why Embracing Failure is the Key to Discipleship

If we are ever going to see students truly develop a robust faith life, we have to let them lead out.

10 Reasons Why Youth Pastors Should Get in Shape

You’ll have more energy to keep up with those crazy teenagers!

A 4-Step Formula for Teaching Students to Lead

Students can only learn leadership by doing leadership.

How to Simplify Your Ministry

When you keep it simple, life is easier.

4 Ways to Alienate Your Ministry Team

A great way to alienate your volunteers is to completely not involve them in any and all decision making.

How to Become a 360 Degree Leader

The need to lead up never ends because no matter your role, you are going to have people in authority over you.

What a Dead Missionary Can Teach You About Radical Youth Ministry

May the Spirit that filled Hudson Taylor empower you to reach the unreachable in your community today!

The 3 Most Important Aspects of Junior High Ministry

It takes time to build a “junior high ministry culture” in most churches.

Rebecca McLaughlin on Whether Christians Can Agree To Disagree About Same-Sex...

Dr. Rebecca McLaughlin joins “The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast” to talk about how church leaders can respond to common arguments that use the Bible to affirm same-sex relationships, the “why” behind God’s design for marriage, and the “beautiful and glorious vision” Christianity has for friendship.

Articles for Youth Leaders