When Subtracting Prayer from School means Multiplication
It has been quite a month. As I walked down the hall as the FCA(Fellowship of Christian Athletes) huddle leader of a local middle school in Grand Rapids, MI, I […]
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5 Things to do About Spring Attendance Drop-Off
“We count people because people count.” One of the churches I was formerly employed at had this in their weekly church handout. The cynic would say this is a cop-out, […]
5 Things to do now to prepare for NTS Camp
Since temperatures are currently 30 degrees below the average for the majority of the country, I can almost forget that a summer season even exists. I tend to focus on […]
Growing Up Too Fast…or Not Growing Up? Part 3
Part 3: Youth Workers (Be sure to read at least Part 1 of this blog to make sense of this post. Also check out Part 2 for the connection to […]
Growing Up Too Fast…or Not Growing Up? Part 2
Part 2: Parents If you haven’t read Part 1 which introduces this idea, take a minute if you can to do so and get the background before reading on. It’s […]
Growing Up Too Fast…or Not Growing Up? Part 1
Part 1: Introduction* *This will be a multi-part blog on this topic, and credit for much of the research and facts are from Richard A Ross. I heard Richard give […]
4 Topics Students Need To Hear About Money
I remember when I was in elementary school, I tagged along with my dad on a trip to Florida. He took multiple vans full of high school students for spring break. […]
Summer Missions: The 4ish Things You Should Be Doing Now
Summer mission trips are awesome! Some of my best memories of being in youth group come from those trips. Now, that could be because it always seemed to be a […]
Students have a Woobie, do you know what it is?
YOU’LL NEVER GUESS WHAT STUDENTS SAY IS THEIR #1 OBSESSION AND 4 THINGS YOU CAN DO TO HELP WITH IT Okay, if you don’t know what a “woobie” is, read […]
3 things you want to hear when you resign
It was just the Senior Pastor and myself at the church one afternoon. I knocked on his door and asked if he had a few minutes to talk about something. […]