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Speaking to Graduating High School Seniors? Consider answering the “how” of living a life that matters, a life that ultimately makes a difference. This post by Andy Blanks passes along three important and practical thoughts for high school graduates.

Have you tried YM360's Event Resources? Here's an awesome review from a youth worker who DID try them and had a great experience.

J. Roger Davis, talks about why GENERATE, and camp in general, means so much to him and youth ministries across the nation.

YM360 is passing along a few more great youth group Christmas games!

The weariness we feel from doing ministry is different than the tired you feel after doing physical labor. It's a tiredness in your soul. Andy Blanks discusses how weariness can actually be a sign that things are going really well.

Every youth worker knows it's important to stay plugged into our students' lives outside of our Bible study time. But I'm going to say something that may surprise you: The main reason for doing this isn't for relationship building. Nope. While building relationships with students is a vital aspect of discipleship, there's a better reason for engaging with students outside of your weekly Bible study time. Ready?

Having run groups for years in a clinical setting as a licensed counselor, Brendt Blanks knows that many of the characteristics of running a successful discipleship group are quite similar. Yet, there are some that are unique to leading students in meaningful spiritual growth. Here are seven characteristics of running an effective small group.

Andy Blanks examines some of the challenges we face in leading students to develop good spiritual habits.

Somewhere along the way, we began to communicate to students that the best way (or maybe even the only way) to help introduce their peers to Christ was to simply invite them to Church. But what does this look like if it is the primary objective of our evangelism? 

Want to know the most dynamic, most useful, most flexible youth ministry resource there is? The one thing that, if implemented, will super-charge your youth ministry and dramatically transform the lives of your students?

The world is increasingly wired and digitized and it will only become more so. 

So how should we handle social media and students' attachment to their devices?

 

Honest doubt, and honest questioning is how teenagers begin to own a faith that is theirs, not their parents’, or grandparents’, or even yours.

But what do we do with those questions? What is the right attitude or approach toward having these questions or doubts?