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The Lost & Found Leader Pack will ensure your leaders are not forgotten! This bundle contains 1 Lost & Found Camp Notebook, a Custom designed T-Shirt, 1 Woven Bracelet, and a Lost & Found Sticker, all at special bundle pricing.

The Lost & Found Student Pack provides the best impact to your students and the best value for your Lost & Found event. This bundle contains 1 Lost & Found Camp Notebook, 1 Lost & Found Follow-Up Devotional Journal, a Custom designed T-Shirt, 1 Woven Bracelet, and a Lost & Found Sticker, all at special bundle pricing.

The Make It Matter Leader Pack will ensure your leaders are not forgotten! This bundle contains 1 Make It Matter Camp Notebook, a Custom designed T-Shirt, 1 Woven Bracelet, and a Make It Matter Sticker, all at special bundle pricing.

The Make It Matter Student Pack provides the best impact to your students and the best value for your Make It Matter event. This bundle contains 1 Make It Matter Camp Notebook, 1 Make It Matter Follow-Up Devotional Journal, a Custom designed T-Shirt, 1 Woven Bracelet, and a Make It Matter Sticker, all at special bundle pricing.

The No Other Name Leader Pack will ensure your leaders are not forgotten! This bundle contains 1 No Other Name Camp Notebook, a Custom designed T-Shirt, 1 Woven Bracelet, and a No Other Name Sticker, all at special bundle pricing.

The No Other Name Student Pack provides the best impact to your students and the best value for your No Other Name event. This bundle contains 1 No Other Name Camp Notebook, 1 No Other Name Follow-Up Devotional Journal, a Custom designed T-Shirt, 1 Woven Bracelet, and a No Other Name Sticker, all at special bundle pricing.

The One Leader Pack will ensure your leaders are not forgotten! This bundle contains 1 One Camp Notebook, a Custom designed T-Shirt, 1 Woven Bracelet, and a One Sticker, all at special bundle pricing.

The One Student Pack provides the best impact to your students and the best value for your One event. This bundle contains 1 One Camp Notebook, 1 One Follow-Up Devotional Journal, a Custom designed T-Shirt, 1 Woven Bracelet, and a One Sticker, all at special bundle pricing.

The Redefined Leader Pack will ensure your leaders are not forgotten! This bundle contains 1 Redefined Camp Notebook, a Custom designed T-Shirt, 1 Woven Bracelet, and a Redefined Sticker, all at special bundle pricing.

The Redefined Student Pack provides the best impact to your students and the best value for your Redefined event. This bundle contains 1 Redefined Camp Notebook, 1 Redefined Follow-Up Devotional Journal, a Custom designed T-Shirt, 1 Woven Bracelet, and a Redefined Sticker, all at special bundle pricing.

The Darkness and the Light Leader Pack will ensure your leaders are not forgotten! This bundle contains 1 Darkness and the Light Camp Notebook, a Custom designed T-Shirt, 1 Woven Bracelet, and a Darkness and the Light Sticker, all at special bundle pricing.

The Darkness and the Light Student Pack provides the best impact to your students and the best value for your Darkness and the Light event. This bundle contains 1 Darkness and the Light Camp Notebook, 1 Darkness and the Light Follow-Up Devotional Journal, a Custom designed T-Shirt, 1 Woven Bracelet, and a Darkness and the Light Sticker, all at special bundle pricing.

The Uprising Leader Pack will ensure your leaders are not forgotten! This bundle contains 1 The Uprising Camp Notebook, a Custom designed T-Shirt, 1 Woven Bracelet, and a The Uprising Sticker, all at special bundle pricing.

The Uprising Student Pack provides the best impact to your students and the best value for your Uprising event. This bundle contains 1 Uprising Camp Notebook, 1 Uprising Follow-Up Devotional Journal, a Custom designed T-Shirt, 1 Woven Bracelet, and a Uprising Sticker, all at special bundle pricing.

The This Changes Everything Leader Pack will ensure your leaders are not forgotten! This bundle contains 1 This Changes Everything Camp Notebook, a Custom designed T-Shirt, 1 Woven Bracelet, and a This Changes Everything Sticker, all at special bundle pricing.

The This Changes Everything Student Pack provides the best impact to your students and the best value for your This Changes Everything event. This bundle contains 1 This Changes Everything Camp Notebook, 1 This Changes Everything Follow-Up Devotional Journal, a Custom designed T-Shirt, 1 Woven Bracelet, and a This Changes Everything Sticker, all at special bundle pricing.

The Total Surrender Leader Pack will ensure your leaders are not forgotten! This bundle contains 1 Total Surrender Camp Notebook, a Custom designed T-Shirt, 1 Woven Bracelet, and a Total Surrender Sticker, all at special bundle pricing.

The Total Surrender Student Pack provides the best impact to your students and the best value for your Total Surrender event. This bundle contains 1 Total Surrender Camp Notebook, 1 Total Surrender Follow-Up Devotional Journal, a Custom designed T-Shirt, 1 Woven Bracelet, and a Total Surrender Sticker, all at special bundle pricing.

Recruiting volunteers isn't seasonal; it's constant! Or, at least, it should be. Let me share with you three tips that our ministry uses to successfully recruit our volunteers.

Summer is the time for cookouts, mission trips, pool parties, camps, retreats, and so much more. But what if you decided to take advantage of the change in your typical youth ministry rhythm and pace that summer provides and use it to pour into your ministry’s leaders this summer? In this video, I want to offer you a look into our student ministry and share with you three tips we put into practice every summer to be more intentional about leveling up our ministry leaders.

In youth ministry, many of us view long-range calendaring with the same gritted teeth and eye rolls that we do budgeting, and keeping up with receipts. But, like it or not, strategic calendar planning can be incredibly beneficial to you as well as to the students, parents, and volunteers who are a part of your ministry. Let me walk you through seven tips that I have learned for creating an effective ministry calendar.

What happens inside the walls of your ministry context—in small groups, at camps, and during mid-week services—are obviously impactful in the life of a student. But what if I told you that what happens outside of your church—the ministry opportunities that take place on a student's turf—can be even more impactful? Let me tell you why on-campus ministry is important, share some dos and don’ts, and walk you through ways I've learned to do effective campus ministry.

There is nothing like the honor and blessing it is when, as youth pastors, we get a front-row seat to watch God moving and working in the life of a teenager. One of the best moments is talking with a student about their decision to follow Jesus and follow through with being baptized. It's amazing and humbling at the same time. But the logistics of it all can also be a little intimidating. How does that process work in your ministry? Are you intentional in this pre-baptism meeting to walk a student through what baptism is, what baptism isn't, how it works, why we do it, and even what needs to come after? Are you making an effort to involve the parents in this entire process? Allow me the opportunity to share with you how we do one-on-one baptism meetings with students at our church. There's even a downloadable baptism meeting guide and checklist for you to adjust to fit your ministry context.

It's time for another big event, camp, retreat, or outreach, and you need a game that your students will be talking about for years to come. I got you! Let me share an epic messy game I play in my ministry that will make your next event "sizzle."

Students are great inviters and bringers but sometimes they don't know where to start. In this video, we'll unpack a few hacks that you can use today to start encouraging and casting the vision for your students to invite their peers to your ministry.

When was the last time you took a timeout? More specifically, when was the last time you were hyper-intentional about carving out some time to get alone, get away, and give yourself (and your ministry) the gift of some reflection, recharging, and refocusing before launching into what’s next? Let me challenge and count down for you in this video (no matter what month it is when you are watching it) with why I believe it’s so important to start planning a short timeout- RIGHT NOW, before the start of a new year or a new ministry season.

Discipleship is more than getting to know what the teacher knows. It is getting to be what he is. - Juan Carlos Ruiz

We are called to make disciples. The pursuit of making disciples who love, follow, and are completely sold out to Jesus is (or should be) at the very core of everything we do in youth ministry. But when the rubber that is the busyness of our students' and volunteer leaders' lives meets the road of their good intentions, creating discipleship groups that work proves easier to say than actually to accomplish. Let me show you some principles that I have found that have proven to be successful when creating a discipleship group that works.

Whether you see it as a waste of time, a danger to society, a tool of a foreign government, or just the next version of Myspace that will go as quickly as it came, TikTok has your students’ eyes and attention. According to the Pew Research Center, TikTok claimed the #2 spot in the rankings of online platforms used by U.S. teens in 2023, surpassing the former powerhouses of Snapchat and Instagram. As we look at engaging our students and creating opportunities to share the Gospel with the lost, the question isn’t if TikTok will be banned or sold but how youth workers will redeem it and utilize it for the Glory of God. In part three of this three-part TikTok series, I want to share with you some ways to create engaging content while utilizing this social media platform in your ministry.

When you think about your students and student ministry, here are two questions I’d like you to consider: 1) What are you doing to help teenagers take more ownership and be more active or engaged during your small group experience? 2) Instead of allowing students to be passive participants in this formative time, what can you do or dream up that could give them regular opportunities to be discipled and grow in their faith in practical ways? Now, I don’t claim to have it all figured out, but we have created and implemented an idea in our student ministry that seems to be effectively answering these two questions. That’s why I want to share this idea for you to use in our own ministry or to serve as inspiration to try something different to move your students from “renters” to “owners” of your student ministry.

As the founder and director of GENERATE camp, I get questions all the time about the games we create and how others can do the same. So allow me the honor of sharing with you some methods that we use at GENERATE and how you can implement those methods to make the games at your next big event, DNOW Weekend, or camp/retreat absolutely amazing!

All of us in youth ministry have upset a parent and had to deal with the ramifications of it. If you haven’t had the experience yet, trust me; it’s coming, and it’s not fun. So, what do you do when you have upset a parent? How do you approach making it right or even winning back any lost trust? There’s no need to make a mistake when dealing with angry parents when you can learn from mine! Let me share with you three things that I’ve learned over the years to do when you need to deal with an angry parent.

Youth ministry is truly an incredible calling, but unfortunately, it is not void of its times of struggle and disappointment. In fact, serving as a youth worker seems to come with some struggles and disappointments that are uniquely its own. So, what are we supposed to do when things don’t go as planned? How are we supposed to respond when we start to wonder if all this work and effort are returning void? How do we keep moving forward in our service to the Lord through youth ministry when we feel like we are walking through thick mud? I don’t have all the answers, but I do want to share some thoughts and four things that have helped me navigate my own encounters with disappointment over the years. My hope is that if you are struggling right now, something in this video reminds you of who you are, whose you are, and that what you do matters.

Delegation is a buzzword in many churches and amongst many of us who lead in ministry. On the one hand, delegation in the context of leading in youth ministry is incredible because it leads to empowerment. On the other hand, delegation in the context of leading in youth ministry is challenging because it requires giving up control. In this video, I want to share five tips that I’ve learned and utilize in my ministry to intentionally loosen my grip in an effort to empower others.

We've all been there...it's a Tuesday evening, and you're teaching on Wednesday night, but you still have no idea what you're teaching yet. Quite often in youth ministry, there are so many things pulling at your time that your lesson prep gets pushed to the side. So how do we avoid it? One way is to build a forward-looking schedule that is planned out in advance, invites over voices in, and shares the stage. Let me tell you how I do it in my own ministry context.