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Posted on March 26, 2012, 7:09 am | 6 comments
Topics: Youth
While numbers are an important tool to help a youth worker gauge the relative health of a ministry (I always keep attendance for my own records), high attendance does not always mean that all is well in the group or that youth are being transformed by the Gospel...
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Posted on December 19, 2011, 7:00 am | 5 comments
Topics: Youth
I’ve got a friend who feels a lot of pressure to increase participants in youth group and roll out consistently high numbers of profession of faiths among their church young people. Really? So this is how we measure performance for a youth leader?
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Posted on November 17, 2011, 10:15 am | 1 comment
Topics: Congregational Life, Leadership
How about asking a second question, just as real and powerful as how to get rid of a pastor: “Are there ways we could help our pastors grow and flourish in their places of ministry?”
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Posted on September 12, 2011, 12:00 am | 5 comments
Topics: Youth
My oldest son has a part-time job and I’ve realized that our church doesn’t have anything set up to receive his tithing. Sure, he can drop cash in the offering, but there’s isn’t any communication, offering envelopes, or focus on his tithing. How cool would it be to have a focus in our youth ministry around tithing?
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Posted on January 17, 2011, 1:47 pm | 2 comments
Topics: Classis Health and Renewal
Over the past several years many churches have had check-ups of sorts to look for points of health and places that need work (Natural Church Development surveys, Healthy Churches surveys, WillowCreek Reveal survey, etc.). But when it comes to classes we often just keep going with the way things have always been. We don’t bother to check the health and vitality of this mid-level of church life.
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Posted on December 21, 2010, 10:55 am
Based on the 10 Benchmarks of a healthy classis, here is an assessment tool you can use to the health of your classis.
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Posted on September 21, 2010, 2:23 pm
Topics: Accessibility
How often do young people get to push their pastor or building committee chair around in a wheelchair? Not only will youth in church learn about accessibility and empathy for people with disabilities, they will provide a valuable service to the church leadership.
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Posted on June 2, 2010, 8:06 pm
Topics: Leadership Development
Here is a phenomenal resource tool for all Canadian Youth Workers! In December 2009 I was in Vancouver attending the Canadian Youth Workers Convention as were over 700 other youth workers from Canada and the USA. Being the Denominational Representative to Youth Specialties I was invited, along with 20 other youth leaders, to the unveiling of "What's Happening? State of Youth Ministry In Canada" research findings.
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Posted on May 25, 2010, 2:37 pm
At least twice a year, those who lead small group ministries need to ask, “What are the next steps for this small group ministry? Where is God leading us?” If you don’t, chances are you’ll become stuck and ineffective.
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Posted on January 20, 2010, 9:10 am
This blog oriented website hopes to "give you the tips and ideas you need to help your church website reach as many people as possible, in the most effective way possible." Not only is the author familiar to social media and runs her church website, but also shares his advice by reviewing church websites.
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Posted on January 18, 2010, 10:29 am
Topics: Community
A helpful checklist and discussion questions designed to assist you in checking your church's relationship to the community.
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