Dear Youth Worker, I wanted to take a moment to say, “You are doing a great job.” My daughter loves coming to your group and she has friends there. I love that she loves to come to church. I truly apprec...

Sometimes our jobs in youth ministry seem close to impossible. Most of us assume we're given these young people with fragile faith. Someone, somehow, has communicated to us in some indirect way that it ...

Poet Henry David Thoreau wrote, "Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live."

If my goal was for students not just to learn Bible stories, but to engage in the Bible, things needed to be handled a little differently.

Parents of teenagers have a good amount of experience with teenagers, more so than the young adults who's only reference is that they vaguely remember what it was like being a teenager themselves.

The longer I'm in youth ministry, the more I wish I'd had a better understanding of myself when I started.

We all look for new ways to infuse creativity into our youth ministries. The fact is, our creative well can dry out and we struggle for ways to make the student ministry fresh.

I recognized the Elvis impersonator. He was my father-in-law.

Middle schoolers are my favorite group of people—they make the best theologians, but they are also the worst-behaved.

For an energetic relay game, try Roll Out. Essentially, two teams will compete against each other for time, with members of each team taking turns rolling across the mats before tagging the next person in line.