THE TOP 3 BLOGS OF 2025

We hope that 2025 was a fantastic year for you and your youth ministry. We are grateful to serve alongside the great work that you are doing and to bring encouraging and equipping blogs to help you win. We hope each blog was able to serve you in a special way. As we look back on the year, here are the top 3 blogs of 2025! Check them out below! If our team can ever do anything to serve you, don’t hesitate to reach out. Happy New Year, and we’ll see you in 2026!  

1. Building a Parent-Focused Discipleship Culture

The church has plenty of dry-cleaner parents. These are parents who drop their student off at the youth group and expect them to be cleaned, pressed, and spiritually ready to go. In other words, they hope the church (specifically the youth group) will “fix” their kids. Anyone who has done youth ministry for five minutes knows that strategy won’t work. As youth pastors, our job isn’t to be the primary disciple-makers of students. That role belongs to the parents. Our calling is to help them see that truth and step into it. We need them to understand that we aren’t dry cleaners… we are Home Depot – “You can do it. We can help!”

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2. Post Camp Follow-up

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 refused to put on deodorant because his mom wasn’t there to remind him, told students to drink water at least 10x a day, called a mom because their baby got homesick, told your kids goodnight over the phone because they couldn’t come, squashed the drama from the couple that broke up on night 3 and even managed to roll an ankle going down the water slide. Congratulations. You made it.

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3. Leading Like Jesus Led: A Guide to Leading Your Volunteers

Leading a volunteer team is much more than managing; it's a stewardship of people who are themselves shepherding young lives. In an environment full of challenges and the constant shifting of the culture, your leadership approach shapes not only your volunteers but ultimately the spiritual direction of the students they serve. Whether you lead staff, volunteers, or both, chances are you’ve seen many different models of leadership, but three biblical approaches form the foundation for Christ-centered leadership: leading with empathy, example, and equipping. 

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