It’s been some emotional roller-coaster this whole youth ministry thing. I’ve been in the deep end and the shallow kiddy pool of my heart-spine. I’ve struggled with mild discouragement, bouts of depression, and prolonged stress at different stages of my career so far; and it can be very difficult sometimes to distinguish which set of … Continue reading
Doug Fields in his book Your First Two Years in Youth Ministry makes four undeniable points on p.31, namely: ‘You’ll be busy! You’ll have only 86,400 seconds to live each day. You’ll struggle in your youth ministry if you can’t manage your time. Plan your time or people will plan it for you.’ In whatever … Continue reading
Gods rather clever. In fact He’s really clever – He’s like ‘the dude’ of cleverness. God can take things like a lunchbox and multiply it like cells separating to feed 1000s of people. He can take giant balls of gas millions of miles away and make them look cool God can see a box of jumbled … Continue reading
Hi folks. I feel like such a killjoy sometimes. I straddle a lot of fences which pleases no-one. I’m genuinely a Charismatic and love modern and emerging expressions of Church. I’m also genuinely a nutcase and love off the wall, creative ideas. I’m also genuinely Reformed, and believe in the infallibility of the Bible and … Continue reading
Find the file online and/or download it here: http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/conference-messages/imparting-a-passion-a-challenge-to-youth-workers FABULOUS message!!!!!! Will post my notes on it soon. Basically a brilliant & inspiring encouragement to youth pastors to stick to the material – The Bible.
[Getting Fired for the Glory of God, Collected Writings of Mike Yaconelli. By Mark Yaconelli. (Youth Specialties, 2008). pp.23-26] Selected quotes & summary notes on some sinful tendencies that youth ministry can easily stray towards from from ‘The Sins of Youth Ministry’ by Mike Yaconelli (found in ‘Getting Fired for the Glory of God’.) 1. … Continue reading
