This game involves a frozen turkey (which can be given to the teen with highest bowling score as a prize). Set up a makeshift bowling alley. (You can find used bowling pins online for a few dollars each). An o...

People all the time ask me, "How do you define success?" or, "How do I know I am being successful?" The concept fills blogs, books and staff meetings. It is the make or break for many in youth ministry and ofte...

Doesn't a conversation about discovery in YouthWorker seem a little oxymoronic? After all, we're youth workers. Our weeks are filled with activities most adults would love to be paid to do. We play. We plan...

She was awkwardly staring me down, like only a middle school girl with a little too much attitude could. We had dismissed into small groups a while ago. I had asked her a simple question, “Why aren’t you in...

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We all understand that reaching, discipling and teaching students God's Word can be challenging. Adding anything into that challenge makes everything…more challenging. That difficulty causes us to stick w...

Teenage identity is wonderful, isn't it? Depending on the context, a teenager who attends our programming is a student, a child, a sibling, a friend, a girlfriend/boyfriend, and so much more. You know all about...

There's been a lot of talk about the teenage brain in the past several years. Neurologists, psychologists and a host of other researchers are weighing in with vital information that could affect the way we do y...