A Message from Jim Pace: Should We Fire God

If you are reading this, then chances are I am deeply grateful to you.If you are reading this, then likely you are one of the relatively few who have looked adolescence in the eye -- a time that most of us rese...

Youth Culture Lesson: Changing Their Tune

Teens' Musical Tastes Influenced by PeersGet downloadable PDF.Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation.About/DisclaimerWhat Happened: For teens, few things are more important than music. Whether it's Miley Cyru...

Building Believers

From Rantings of a Youth Pastor: "Investing in students is amazing. I mean sitting there with a teen who is absorbing the time we are pouring into them is priceless. Too often we as youth pastors can become ...

YCU: Going Old School with Apprenticeships

PLUS: Facebook beats Google, and Davy Crockett beats 'em both. Apprenticeships: Back to the Future? -- In an effort to provide direction to rudderless youth, the state of Wisconsin is utilizing a time-ho...

Face the Cookie!

Dennis Beckner, blogger at VolunteerYouthMinistry.com and volunteer youth minister at Saddleback Church, offers two variations on the game "Face the Cookie." "We played this today at our weekend service,"...

YWJ Q/A on Fundraising

YouthWorker Journal wanted to know about youth workers' experiences with fundraising, particularly the biggest mistakes youth workers have made. Here's what you told us via Facebook, Twitter and reader response...

Great Mission Trips for Spring Break

Words to Works Ministries is offering a spring break mission trip to sunny Jacksonville, Fla., where you can pack your swim wear for the beach and your loving heart to help children, the poor and needy. Th...

Jessa Anderson Releases New CD

Not Myself Anymore Jessa Anderson is not herself anymore, and that's a good thing. 2010 is shaping up to be the most exciting year yet for the 24-year-old singer/songwriter. During the next six months, Anders...