Young Adult Research Webinar: The Impact of Parents and the Home Church

A Letter to the Youth Leader on the Edge of Burnout

Youth Ministry is challenging and as a youth leader, you may be burnt out and struggling. This open letter from Cassie Shermbeck is written for ...

Enduring our Corruption: Understanding Original Sin

Our doctrine of Original Sin might be something difficult or hard to explain. But understanding our broken human nature can help us understand t...

Why Build Resilient Youth in Youth Ministry?

What is a resilient identity in Christ and why is it important for a healthy youth ministry? Check out this blog from the Seven Practices of Hea...

The Habits That We Make – Fundraising

Should youth ministry, or any other ministry for that matter, rely on fundraising to significantly support their ministry functions? Sometimes ...

Sharpening Iron – Building Relationships with Youth

Youth and adults may have different ideas of what is engaging conversation. However, if we want to model faithful Christian relationships, it ta...

Filtered: Finding Your Identity and Purpose Through Christ

Our youth have a lot of big questions. Our God has a lot of big answers. This youth-led Bible study series is meant to equip the participants fo...

Make it Work for You: Balancing Technology Use in Youth Ministry

Technology has been a mixed experience for youth. They love technology, but they also know they need face to face interaction. To achieve the be...

Confirmation 2.0: Lord’s Supper Bible Study Series

The post-Confirmation teen years may be ones where teaching the Catechism may be more difficult. Teens want to know how this material applies to...

The Habits That We Make: Parents

We all have harmful habits, even in our churches. This article helps us think about how we might have habits where parents are not growing in th...

The COVID-19 Pandemic: Change or Experience?

As youth workers, we need to remember that this cohort that experienced the COVID pandemic during their younger years experienced it differently...