Planning a Year in Youth Ministry
Planning Youth Ministry can be tough. A year long plan can be a bit of work, but incredibly helpful. This article is designed to help you think through the steps of creating your year long ministry plan.
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Youth Ministry Theory
Growing Young’s Best Neighbors connected to 7 Practices Opportunities to Serve & Lead, Supportive Adults, Discover a Resilient Identity in Christ, and Live Out Their Unique Vocation
As a part of a series that draws connections between Growing Young and Seven Practices, we look at how Growing Young’s Best Neighbors is connected to 7 Practices Opportunities to Serve & Lead, Supportive Adults, Discover a Resilient Identity in Christ, and Live Out Their Unique Vocation
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Growing Young’s Prioritize Everywhere connected to 7 Practices Supportive Adults, Opportunities to Serve & Lead, and Live Out Their Unique Vocation
As a part of a series that draws connections between Growing Young and Seven Practices, we look at how Growing Young’s Prioritize Everywhere is connected to 7 Practices Supportive Adults, Opportunities to Serve & Lead, and Live Out Their Unique Vocation.
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Growing Young’s Warm Relationships connected to 7 Practices Warmth, Challenge and Grace; Supportive Adults
As a part of a series that draws connections between Growing Young and Seven Practices, we look at how
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Supporting Youth with Chronic Illness
Whether minor or major, chronic health issues can impact a teen’s ability to participate in youth programming and even impair their relational support of other youth. Youth leaders need to be prepared to assess regularly and make plans to keep every Bible study, event, trip and meal something which keeps youth healthy both spiritually and physically.
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Growing Young’s Jesus’ Message connected to 7 Practices Engaged Parents, Deeply Understanding Their Baptismal Faith, and Warmth, Challenge and Grace
As a part of a series that draws connections between Growing Young and Seven Practices, we look at how Growing Young’s Jesus’ Message connected to 7 Practices Engaged Parents, Deeply Understanding Their Baptismal Faith, and Warmth, Challenge and Grace
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Growing Young’s Empathy Today connected to 7 Practices Warmth, Challenge and Grace and Engaged Parents
As a part of a series that draws connections between Growing Young and Seven Practices, we look at how Growing Young’s Empathy Today connects to 7 Practices Warmth, Challenge and Grace and Engaged Parents
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3 Tools for Evaluating Ministry
Every youth ministry program needs to change, but how do you know it’s time to change? How do you know if ministries are working? Or if they aren’t and need to change? This article gives three ways for you to assess your youth ministry in order to help identify places for healthy growth.
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Growing Young’s 6 Core Commitments and LCMS Youth Ministry’s 7 Practices of Healthy Youth Ministry
This is the introduction to a series of articles exploring the connection between the 7 Practices of Healthy Youth Ministry and Fuller Youth Institute’s 6 Core Commitments for Growing Young, These articles are all linked here to help you consider your ministry to young people might be transformed to help position your church to Grow Young as you retain and gain young people as a part of your ministry.
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Healthy Habits for Healthy Youth Leadership: The Dos and Don’ts of Changing Ministry
Change in ministry is healthy but it isn’t always fun. The process of change isn’t positive at every step. Change can bring out the ugliest sides of a person because it is often uncomfortable, difficult, and stressful. This article highlights some of the dos and don’ts that can help new youth leaders navigate change in a way that brings out the best in ministry.
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Restful Youth Ministry
Youth ministry is not meant to be just one more thing for teenagers to do among a huge list of to-do’s and other activities; Our youth ministries are mean to be a place of rest. This article helps us to think through how we can bring Sabbath and rest to our youth ministries.
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More than a Numbers Game: Setting and Tracking Goals in Youth Ministry
It is important to have direction and goals for your youth ministry, but those can be hard to set and track. This article is designed to give guidance on how to choose and follow up with goals for your programming so you can best share the Gospel with your teens.
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