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My wife and I recently made our first move from Texas to Alabama. One thing I have learned in this process is that new is difficult. We left our jobs, families, careers, house, and every bit of our lives to...

Camp is a BEAST. You prayed, you went, and you SURVIVED! That’s a true miracle of summer camp right there. Right? At camp, you probably logged 20,000 steps per day, got dehydrated, smelled the boy from across the camp who...

As I write this, thousands of churches are preparing for one of the biggest weeks of their ministry year: summer camp. As you’ve probably heard and experienced, camp can have a huge impact on your ministry. One week can change...

“Salty and Lit for the Lord,” “Why Jesus is the G.O.A.T.,” and “How to be Sigma Without Losing Your Soul.” If reading these message titles made you cringe, imagine how your students feel! When we teach, we have to avoid...

Student ministry and internships have gone hand in hand for decades, but how do you get an internship right? In some contexts, an internship can be more rigorous than a college degree and, in other places, as casual as a...

Going back early into my childhood, I have always been a bit of a camp junkie. I think part of it was because I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s when there was a growing influence of the nature-focused...

Are you tired of seeing students live on mission for a week, only to come back home and forget everything they experienced on the mission trip? Yeah, me too! As youth workers, we constantly wrestle with how to lead our...

“Follow me and I will make you fishers of men.” These are famous words from Jesus, as He called Simon and Andrew from their lives as fishermen and into the calling of disciples. As a youth worker, it is easy...

What if I told you I went from being one of three full-time pastors on staff to being the only full-time pastor in just eight weeks? Would you believe me? I hope you will because it's true! It was hard...

Have you ever been in a situation where a friend, coworker, teammate, or church member said something like this: “What is this Gospel thing you keep talking about? I’ve heard you mention it, and I’ve seen how you’ve changed. I...

I have worked two or more jobs since I got into vocational ministry. Some of that time, my church was paying me barely above minimum wage. Some of that time, I was part-time, and some of that time, I was...

Does your ministry struggle with worship? Do you have trouble finding students to lead worship? Is worship engaging in your student ministry? Each of these questions can sometimes give us youth pastors a serious headache. We want our student ministries...