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Author: Caroline Hare

Live Love Service Night

I like to take a month to remind students about the never ending love of Christ. We spend that month not only talking about love in relationships with the opposite sex, but with friends, family, and our neighbors. The last Sunday of that month we do a spirit led, service based activity called “Live Love.” Our goal is to live out the love of Christ through random acts of service.

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What Every Volunteer Should Know

In youth ministry there is more turnover in youth leaders and youth volunteers than most ministry areas of the church. These are seven ways that we, as youth ministers, can help equip our volunteers so that they are in the trenches of youth ministry for the long haul.

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Six Ideas for Nurturing a Culture of Modesty

Modesty is a topic that every youth leader dreads talking about…it can be awkward and uncomfortable. Especially if you are a dude. Since part of our roles as youth leaders is to help students and parents create healthy boundaries so that we bring glory to God this is not a subject we can (or should) avoid. So let’s talk about it.

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Reaching for Keeps

In my first year of full time youth ministry, I was given the responsibility of being in charge of the planning and implementation of reach out events for youth. After lots of success numerically, as well as, fruit in students not only coming to the events but staying connected afterwards, I have seen reach events to be a wonderful way to grow a ministry and keep students rooted in the community of the church.

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