Office space can be tricky to organize, and clearing the area may be time consuming. But, an environment of chaos can be detrimental to your inner peace and work flow. Caroline Hare shares some tips for organizing a youth minister’s office space with the specific functionality for the job in mind.
How can you help your youth group develop a worship band when you’re not exactly the most musical youth pastor who ever lived? Caroline Hare has some great suggestions to help get you started in the right direction!
Are you looking for the perfect event to close out the year? The lock in is the most fearsome event for every youth pastor, but Caroline Hare offers awesome tips that will not only help you survive, but make your next lock in the best event ever!
It seems like summer just ended, and now I do really need to be thinking ahead to next summer. There really is an art to making a summer plan that helps everyone grow in their faith, but not stressing the family (yours included) by having a crazy schedule.
Volunteer 101 is really about serving. If the leaders do not have a servant spirit, they will eventually flop out and go serve in the next form of ministry.
Back to school time can just be plain old intense. Instead of partnering with that anxiety by adding to an already chaotic time, what if we took that time as a teaching moment to take everything to the Lord in prayer? Here are a few ways to set the pace for the fall, as well as, teach our students to keep a posture of prayer everywhere they go.
Week two focuses on what is next for our students. We want to help them process what their gifts are, the needs that they see, and what they feel called to do.
Our Senior Pastor threw out the idea this past fall about doing a series on mapping out your life. Week one focuses on the rearview mirror and helping students understand where they have come from and what exactly God was “up to” in their past!
With the beginning of the school year, there is always a sense of having a fresh start for our students. Youth Leaders have that same opportunity to re-engage with campus ministry. Here are a few of my favorite ways to begin the school year right in campus ministry.
Sometimes starting a conversation with middle schoolers and high schoolers is much like trying to talk to a tree. It stands there and occasionally gives you a piece of fruit or maybe just a hint of the seeds of the fruit you may be able to notice around it. In youth ministry, it is hard to minister to students if you don’t know how to breakthrough and start a conversation with them!
Discovery Weekend is a curriculum that was formed for middle school students, is led by high school students, and is supported by adults. It is a wonderful mosaic of the body of Christ through a retreat experience at home.
Only in this era is that a possibility to be able to blast out your thoughts on a person or post an embarrassing photo of someone else for all your “friends” that you do and don’t know from school to see. The best part is you won’t get in trouble for it because nobody knows you actually posted it. Here are a few responses we should have to this kind of gossip.
