Fundraising, that dirty little word. Through the years, I have heard from many new youth workers, "My church told me, ‘Oh, don't worry. You never will need to fundraise. We fully fund our ministries.' What th...

For many people, Halloween just isn't complete without a good ghost story; and Christmas isn't complete without Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, the book, the play or one of the movie versions. Author and Di...

"How have you lasted for more than 30 years in youth work?" one of my students recently asked me.It hasn't been an easy road. I was as green as could be—a real rookie—when I first started. I had lit...

In my nine years of youth ministry, I have read and heard repeatedly about the limitations of students, specifically middle schoolers, when it comes to issues of attention spans and what they can understand. It...

Donald Miller, Derek Webb, Sandra McCracken and Robbie Seay Band are teaming up for a rare night of music, art and storytelling with the "Love Tells the Story Tour" this fall. The tour combining a New York Time...

Daniel 7:1-8: The Book of Daniel is a type of literature scholars classify as "Apocalyptic." Revelation is also so classified. Apocalyptic means "revealing." The idea might be expressed in Shakepearea...

October is Bullying Awareness month. Listen to an interview about the effects of bullying between Mary Robinson Reynolds and Kelly V. Voll, a staff writer for a newspaper in New York, as the...

Welcome to the wonderful world of ministry! This is what you've been waiting for, studying for, praying for -- your first day on the job!Excited? You bet.Ready to jump in and change the ministry world? Possibly...

This paper investigates the key areas of spiritual mentoring using the definition formed in Dr. Dave Sanders mentoring class at Judson University. The definition says that spiritual mentoring is an intentional ...

Based on the last 10 year's worth of statistics, 750,000 teenage girls will become pregnant in the United States this year, yet less than 1 percent will choose to place their children for adoption. While studie...