Global LeadershipSummit Takeaways, ten key things I personally took away from this year’s Global Leadership Network annual summit and GLS: Next Gen connections at Willow Creek Community Church last week. 10. TRUST: Leadership is based on and about trust. A leader earns the right to be trusted and freely trusts their team. 9. CONSISTENCY: Leadership […]
Learned From Being Homeless- ten things I learned from being homeless and how good god is in the middle of our struggles
Want to keep your students engaged and listening to your lesson? Consider the “7 Minute Rule” when it comes to planning your next lesson: I know traditionally, youth ministry lessons resemble a sermon/lecture (“Auditory Learning”) more than other kinds of presentations. The church is a setting for 20-minute-plus sermons, which might work for the adults, but it […]
Caught NOT Taught? “What are you teaching this week?” It is the question that students, parents, and others often ask us. We study, plan, and prepare for that moment when we stand up in front of our students and begin to speak. We are paid to communicate the greatest truths imaginable. We have the privilege and the responsibility […]
Running The Race Together, why my wife is involved in my youth ministry as a youth pastor working in a church with teenagers. By Dan Istvanik
Silver Bullets of Youth Ministry Success. We all want to know the “silver bullet”… the “secret sauce”… to youth ministry!
BORED WITH THE BIBLE? “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.- I Timothy 4:12 (NIV) I hear a few things quite often as a youth pastor, but two make me most sad. I hear […]
Favorite Youth Ministry Podcasts, there are quite a few youth ministry podcasts. Some you may have heard of and some you may not have heard of…yet! Unfortunately, there are even some of my favorites from over the years that are no longer around. I don’t have a podcast of my own, partly because there are […]
The Conversation, Not the Talk… When my son turned ten and entered 5th grade, during the summer, we had what many parents call “the talk”. It is the classic father-son moment talking about birds and bees. You can picture the scene sitting on his bed, talking about all the details of life and answering a […]
Doing Minsitry Your Way? Ten of the WORST Reasons for doing youth ministry the way you are doing it? 10. It is what my own youth group did when I was in youth group. 9. It is what the church has always done? 8. I just don’t feel like being creative? 7. It is the […]
