Category: Youth Ministry

A look at leadership for those who are or want to be… Your major youth event is soon to get underway.  Months of dreaming, planning, and hard work have brought you this far and now everything seems to be falling to bits.  Technical issues, delays in the set up, key people missing, and now tension…

Build on vision… Before we begin to build teams, we need to have a vision for the work that we intend to accomplish.  A vision is a picture of a preferred future.  Remember Nehemiah?  God gave him a clear vision to rebuild the city of Jerusalem.  He not only pictured it in his mind, he…

Where do we find leaders? Good leaders are often hard to find.  If you are in a church or community where people are very career driven and busy, the challenge is even greater.  In the average church, finding people to work with youth is often done by an announcement in worship.  However, many of the…

When I was 14 years old, my church had the most amazing youth pastor!  Large numbers of young people came to youth groups and spent time with Gary whenever they could.  His home bustled with teenagers coming and going.  They wanted to be around Gary as much as possible.  When I was 15, everything had…

Links here to the main speakers talks at Rooted.  Worth taking the time to listen to! Click on the title of the talk to listen (once you go to the pages below) 2012 Rooted Conference Recordings: Mary Willson 2012 Rooted Conference Recordings: Ray Ortlund 2012 Rooted Conference Recordings: Timothy George

Its been far too long since I updated the blog here, I thought I would do a series of articles on a subject. This time it will be on the matter of volunteer leaders. Some of what I will post over the next few weeks will be from a series of articles that were originally…

Back from the Rooted Conference, which was an amazing couple of days in Birmingham!  Since I am watching the closing 2012 Olympic ceremonies… I cannot help but use a British expression to state that I am “absolutely shattered!”  The Conference was great and the teaching could not have been better.  Ray Ortland did the main…

Given the number of internships and apprenticeships we have seen in our diocese over the years, this article caught my eye.  Too often I have seen churches (or camps) use internships to get free or cheap labor and miss the opportunity to invest in people.  Take a look. One of the BIG Aha agreements reflects…

Tim Challies posted a review on a new book which caught my attention for the comment in bold. That’s where Jerry Bridges’ new book comes in. After several decades of a teaching and writing ministry that has transformed countless lives around the world, his most recent book distills to fewer than 100 pages the essential…

I have not been posting to this blog of late due to being in Ireland with a team of students as part of our partnership with the Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin, & Ardagh. You can follow us on: http://irelandpartnership.blogspot.ie/