Category: Youth Ministry

Her world is about to change! A year ago my daughter graduated from college, came home for two weeks and headed off to an internship in Virginia doing youth ministry.  Now, she is about to be married and a few weeks after that start her first job as a Youth Director at a relatively large…

Our Youth Commission is comprised of cheerful servants who demonstrate spiritual maturity and leadership gifts and desire to develop skills while serving our Lord. This leadership group serves on youth events as well as at Diocesan Convention each year. Their role in events includes leading small groups, sharing testimonies, leading activities, and providing behind the…

In Judges 2:10 we read “And there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD or the work that he had done for Israel.” We see a pattern in the Old Testament that mirrors the dilemma the church faces today.  When the next generation does not know the Lord, they become rebellious…

In the last issue of the diocesan newspaper, there was an excellent little article buried towards the back.  It really resonated with me.  Bp Allison is a rather brilliant man. I post it here for the sake of Anglican readers.

Rooted hopes to take another step closer to the ultimate youth ministry conference experience with our 2015 gathering in Chicago on October 22-24. Rooted is a ministry driven by practicing youth ministers. Consequently, we know the struggles and needs of the everyday youth minister, fighting the good fight in the trenches. Here is what we…

I was listening to a webinar the other day on writing and the speaker said something that struck me as doubly useful, meaning it’s helpful in more than one way.  He suggested writers (specifically bloggers) should approach a world view rather than a topic.  I immediately got excited by this idea even though he hardly…

The following is what I presented at our convention in March. A few years ago I found myself in Houston TX for a meeting of the Young Anglicans Project.  The project is an organization that exists to advance youth ministry across North American Anglicanism. While there I got a phone call from a priest at…

Our community group has been studying Deuteronomy and we hit chapter 13. Initially it reads in a way that people could compare our Bible to the current events around the world and think that the God of the Bible is no different from the extremes of Islam.  Three instances are there of a command to…

Two years ago I was interviewed by the church that first hired me. Recently I tracked down the resulting video that has been shown at that church.  It is an interesting fly through highlights of my life and ministry.  It jumps from my conversion to the 9 and 1/2 years spent on staff there to…

Since The Gospel Coalition National Conference is this week (and I am sad not to be there) and since Rooted has a booth in the exhibit hall and hosting a coffee Tuesday night for Youth Ministry Folks, and since Rooted’s founder Cameron Cole is presenting a workshop this year at TGC…  I thought it appropriate…