flashback friday (oct. 15): this week's links from the youth ministry blogosphere

One of the things we are committed to at ym360 is Networking. Our vision for networking is connecting you to people and organizations doing awesome youth ministry. Flashback Friday is a feature where we give you the run down of all the interesting posts from the past week in the youth ministry blogosphere. Consider it our way of keeping you connected with what is going on.

This week's posts from the ym360 Blog

• Stress, Depression, And Anxiety in the Life of a Youth Worker
• Developing Spiritual Disciplines in Your Students: Prayer
• ym360 Trends & Culture Update
• Youth Ministry Essentials: What To Do With Students Who Stop Showing Up

Posts From Other Awesome People

We search the Internet to bring you relevant information to help you be a better youth worker. Here are some links from posts we thought were pretty great.

• Youth Ministry.com--Doug and Matt write a great post about empowering the parents of your students.
• ReYouth Pastor.com--ym360 contributor Jeremy Zach posts a review of some of his most popular blog posts. There are some really good posts here. Take the time to browse around.
• Youth Specialties.com--All around good guy Shawn Michael Shoup provides incredible insight: he interviews his teenage daughters about their experience visiting other youth groups. I loved this. Great, great insight for youth workers.
• Called To Youth Ministry.com--Christopher Wesley writes about how you can "pay" your volunteer workers.
• The Overflow--Brian Berry writes a really instructive post about working with parents of teens.
• Not A Mega Church.com--ym360 contributor and all-around great youth minister, Tom Pounder, writes a post on bullying and how to deal with it. Good stuff, here.
• More Than Dodgeball.com--Geoff Stewart writes a guest post on MTDB.com about how to diffuse angry parents. A really good article.
• Love God Love Students.com--Matt McGill writes a really helpful post on how to ask/write really good questions. Great advice for small group leaders.
• Life In Student Ministry.com--Tim Schmoyer writes a great post on the role of the youth pastor in the church.
• Rethinking Youth Ministry.com--Brian over at "rethink" has a great post in their series on "signs" of youth ministry, about "yielding" control of (some parts) your youth ministry to students.
• Jay Higham.com--ym360 contributor, Jay Higham, includes the new promo video for the Simply Youth Ministry Conference. Jay is right: the conference is amazing. It is, in my opinion, the best youth ministry conference. Period. We will be shining a spotlight on SYMC starting next week. (We'll also be giving away two free registrations . . . but don't tell anyone. :) ).
• Radical Parents.com--I really like the Radical Parents site. It's a great resource for really creative and useful parenting articles (written from a teenager's perspective). This post is a list of weekly articles for parents. Consider sending this post to your parents as a way of equipping them.
• Doug Franklin.com--Doug writes a very useful and very timely post about leading "good" kids.

That will do it, folks. As always, have a great weekend . . . And THANK YOU for the chance to serve you as part of the ym360 community. 

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