We asked four youth workers what the best leadership qualities were for youth ministry. Check out their answers.

Need ideas for an EPIC mystery trip? Check these out!

I want teens to feel free to shed tears in my youth ministry. I want them to know that emotions aren't wrong and that tears aren't shameful. What I don't want to do anymore is try and program teens' tears, because that's not God moving. That's behavioral modification and manipulation.

I believe with all my heart that God is inviting us to Life with a capital L.

Need some Easter discussion starters? We've got 'em.

Got leftover peeps?

While I have a deep sense something is not right with our overly scheduled youth, I also have a deep sense God can and will meet my students on a sand bar, through the laughter they experience during a board game, and in Bible study and worship.

Chemistry. Communication. Commitment. Coffee?

How do we reach hurting teens? These youthworkers have ideas...

It was an innocent enough question. A stranger on the airplane simply asked, "What do you do for a living?" For most of the past four decades, the answer was an easy, automatic, "I'm a youth pastor." This time, I was frozen. I just wasn't sure what to say.