Articles for Youth Leaders

7 Ways to Serve Your Local Schools

School is in full swing for the fall. Here's how you can be involved.

Being a Family Is an Art and the Dinner Table Is Where It Finds Expression

Interestingly, when families do eat together the average dinnertime is 15 minutes. In the 1960, the average family dinnertime was 90 minutes.

Why You Should Leverage the Influence of Grandparents

Aside from my parents, my maternal grandparents have been the single most important spiritual influence in my life

4 Great Core Values for Youth Group

When putting together your church youth group program, it's wise to focus on four main values: connection, growth, celebration and fun.

Why You Should Not Do Youth Ministry Alone

"Youth ministry was never meant to be done alone," say Josh Griffin and Kurt Johnston.

It’s Time to Rally for the One Thing That Can Truly Change Everything!

What brings true and lasting change? For us, as believers, it's not politics, policies and protests. It's the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ with our lives and lips!

Your Church Needs an Intergenerational Communication Plan

Once we realize the importance of intergenerational communication platforms and how to access generations, we have a much better chance of bridging the gap and finding ways to bring generations together.

How to Do an Amazing Race at Your Church

We thought about The Amazing Race! Could we actually pull that off? Yes! This can be done a number of ways, but here is how we did it.