Last week I got the chance to catch up with friend, youth worker, writer, and contributor to youthworktalk.com, Leneita Fix. Her new book with Jeffrey Wallace is Everybody’s Urban: Understanding The Survival Mindset of the Next Generation - Here’s a quick interview that covers the content and purpose of the book.
You can pick up her book at Simply Youth Ministry’s Website or at Amazon.
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Recently I was able to catch up with friend and fellow youth worker, Mike Hammer. He is one of the authors of a great new book for guys titled, 99 Things Every Young Guy Should Know. I have looked through this book and it is highly practical for guys in your ministry. I could tell you more, but why not hear what Mike has to say?
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My good friends at youthministry360 have just launched another round of free resources, just in time for Easter!
They’re giving away three different Easter Bible study lessons, PLUS a set of 10-day Easter devotions for your students. It’s solid stuff that will help your teenagers prepare their hearts and minds for Easter. Easter is such a powerful time for Christ-followers. These tools will help you lead students to both reflect on and celebrate Christ’s death and resurrection.
To download these free resources, head on over to the ym360 Easter Vault at https://youthministry360.com/
Enjoy and feel free to spread the Easter Love!
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“Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.” Philippians 4:9
I’m a parent of young kids… I have three kids under 6 and it can be a wild ride at times! Some of the most challenging times for our family are meal times believe it or not. If you have young kids, you so get this. Trying to teach my kids how to eat and how to get more food in their mouth than on the floor is rather challenging at times…
However, as a parent, I know that what is messy today, will help my kids grow healthy for tomorrow. For now my job is to tell my kids how to eat, show them how to eat, and let them ‘practice’ with their food. But can you imagine if I only decided to tell my kids and show my kids how to eat, but never give them a chance to practice?
So often we teach students, we show them, but we don’t always spend a great deal of time helping actually ‘practice’ their faith… What should this look like?
I’m super excited to announce a brand new resource for youth workers to get in the hands of students. I am super excited for this resource that is designed to get students into God’s Word every day. (Full disclosure: I am one of the writers for this resource).
Here’s more info about it:
Imagine empowering your students to spend just a few minutes each day discovering a life-shaping, thought-provoking, Jesus-centered truth that can transform them into the kind of people God crafted them to be. Sounds like a worthwhile investment, doesn’t it? Continue Reading…
We can barely understand and comprehend the tragic events of Newtown, CT can we? I have three kids, and my 6 year old was at school today. It’s hard to wrap my head around the tragedy in a school full of innocent children.
How are our students processing this? How do we help them process it? It’s challenging enough for ourselves isn’t it?
Below is an excerpt from a book I authored that tackles Answers to Teenagers 50 Toughest Questions. Below is a good starting place for us all. Friend and youth worker Liz Simmonds wrote this answer that looks at why God seems to allow suffering and tragedy. It does not possibly answer every aspect of what we and our students are thinking, but it is a good start, and perhaps a good message outline for you this week? I hope this helps…
The folks over at ym360 are offering some great Thanksgiving resources. They’ve got a Thanksgiving page that features three Thanksgiving lessons and a handful of Thanksgiving games. The best part? It’s all FREE!
If you’re interested in downloading one or all of the Thanksgiving resources from ym360, simply head on over to https://youthministry360.com/
If you have any questions or problems with the download, the ym360 team is standing by to help out.
This week I received an email from CPYU (Center for Parent/Youth Understanding), telling me some exciting news about a new initiative they have created.
They have created a great website that provide parents and youth workers with pertinent information, resources, and research concerning students who are heading off to college (or are currently in college).
I could tell you more about it, but instead I will let Walt Mueller tell you more: Continue Reading…
Last week I was in Colorado at Group Publishing HQ for the Simply Youth Ministry IT3 Summit. I managed to catch up with my good friend Darren Sutton, (and contributor in this blog), and ask him about his new book: Everyone’s Called to Youth Ministry.
If you are interested in picking up a copy of Darren’s book, click on the link below.
http://www.leadertreks.org/store/everyones-called-to-youth-ministry/
If you have a question for Darren, feel free to leave a comment for him!
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