For Youth Leaders

Programming should be designed for your youth ministry's size and needs. More importantly, it should be designed to build relationships around Jesus Christ. This article is a great encouragement and idea sparker for those with small youth groups.

Youth ministries need a plan for using social media to connect with youth and their parents. This article has six practices to help you create successful engagement.

A review of the book Ten Questions to Ask Every Time You Read the Bible and it's applications to youth ministry

It can be difficult for youth, and all people for that matter, to be able to properly distinguish between what is right and wrong. Thus, it is important for pastors, church workers, and other leaders to help youth, and all people, understand God’s design and purpose with what is right and wrong so that people can truly love others in accordance with God’s Word.

What does being an “adult in the church” mean? As your confirmands head into high school and beyond, they are looking to see when they are going to be treated as adults. This article helps us to think about how we might raise expectations and encourage youth to being to take on adult roles in the church.

Youth ministry is often connected to the preparation for and Rite of Confirmation. Confirmation is a unique educational opportunity to help young people truly dig into understanding the faith into which they were baptized.

We need to talk about why spiritual practices and living out our vocation is important. In Jesus, teens have something worth sacrificing for.

In the third article of this series, we talk about the power of play for Gen Z.