This past weekend a small group of leaders from the Jr. High ministry at my church went on a retreat to dream big about the future of the ministry. It was amazing. There are times that I can get pretty frustrated with planned brainstorming sessions. It can seem like forced creativity and focus and sometimes [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Retreat Reflections
Posted in Uncategorized on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Summer
Posted in S.H.A.P.E, Vision Casting, jr. high, volunteers, youth, youth ministry, tagged S.H.A.P.E, summer, vision planning, volunteers on June 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m looking forward to this summer in my youth ministry. Last summer we did an amazing thing called “Just Add Water” where the students in our ministry raised more than $9,000 to provide clean drinking water, and working showers and toilets for children and their parents in the Mathare slum of Nairobe, Kenya. But this [...]
21st Century Youth
Posted in jr. high, youth, youth ministry, tagged jr. high, youth, youth ministry on June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I was younger I never imagined I’d be working with youth on a fairly regular basis. I grew up wanting to be a college professor, but I knew that would be different than working with teenagers or pre-teens. I vowed that if I had to I might teach high-school students, but there was no [...]
