Articles for Youth Leaders

These virtual icebreakers are sure to get the teens attending your youth group meetings talking and, more often than not, laughing.

Stage presence isn’t natural.

Companies and organizations often do “exit interviews,” and they do so for many different reasons. But the biggest one is that they get really honest answers. And this is a great time to do the same with graduating seniors.

Several weeks ago it started becoming clear that proms were going to be cancelled, graduations were going to look different, and high school seniors-...

Mentoring is an essential part of any youth ministry.

But the thing I would tell any college student aiming to move overseas for the sake of the gospel is this: learn about the basic Christian life of discipleship.

The silence is a reminder of how much I miss the teens and adults who make up the ministry I oversee. I never thought I would miss waiting with a teen for their parent to pick them up. I miss it, and it’s been hard.

Creativity matters because it’s deeply personal and inherently authentic.