Keys To Being a Great Core Member
I was training a group of young core members when I commented about what a great looking group of young adults they were. I think I said they looked like they could be in a Gap Ad. All of a sudden one of the girl Core Members asked me “What’s the perfect core member looked like?” I thought for a second and then immediately responded...

Youth Tracker
A few months ago, I noticed a major weakness in our student ministry administration. It seemed like we had a revolving door of student visitors with no sense of follow-up. We had informational cards, but it never seemed like we did anything with them. The result was seeing new students come week after week, but finding that we were ineffective in drawing them in to stay...

Creating a Ministry Brand
There is nothing more important when you’re selling a product than the branding you give it. That’s Business 101. Out of all the logos listed to the left, you could probably identify the organization immediately. You know who it is, what they are selling and probably how you can get your hands on one of their products. They have relentlessly put their brand in front of you and convinced you it’s something you need. Shouldn’t we be doing the same in ministry...

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Blessed
Dear Young People, I would like to add something else to what I have already said to you. I would like to speak to you briefly about prayer, about communion with God, a communion that is deeply personal between ourselves and God.

Tradition
This last few days we’ve seen two amazing examples of the power and beauty of tradition. On Thursday, Prince William and Kate got married. It was a beautiful ceremony, dripping with hundreds of years of history. Though I was not at all a fan of the tabloid way the news media covered it (I couldn’t care less about Kate’s dress) it was an important moment, especially for the people of England. On Sunday, John Paul II got beatified. A million people gathered to celebrate the event. The liturgy was amazing and reflected over a thousand years of Church Tradition.

They Are Listening, But Are They Hearing?
I don’t know about you, but I was not raised in a Christian home and listened to some pretty foul music as a teenager, music I would never play for my mother let alone my students. I may be embarrassed about it the reality was that I owned those CD’s listened to them all the time; it was a part of who I was. The question is, did I know what I was listening too? Did my mind compute the words that I was saying?

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3 Things You Must Master in Youth Ministry … But Never Will