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...

Many youth groups have a simple formula for their meetings: game + lesson, with the occasional pizza order or lock-in. It’s a centuries old formula dating back to youth ministries out of Ancient Mesopotamia...

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 ...

I can’t change my story, but I can leverage it for the good of the Kingdom. My life has been tragedy free for the most part. But one season of life makes me quiver inside just reflecting back upon it. Let me...

For many youth ministries, every fall offers the same challenge: clashing schedules of the sports students play and the youth ministry calendar.

Place is such an important thing for students. Community often defines friendship and spiritual formation.

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.

You can plan all you want, and you should, but you also need to remember that life is more important than your plans.

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.