I believe in you…
I often hear youth leaders say stuff to young people like: ‘I believe in you!’: ‘God has created you for something significant!’ and ‘Young people can change the world!’ I think these are extremely...
View ArticleIt’s about the baton, not the runner
For years, the USA had fastest sprint olympic team but they didn’t win gold because they kept dropping the baton. If you’re focused on being the best youth leader you can be – brilliant! Read, attend...
View ArticleTips for effective big event pack down
1. Ask specialist people to do specialist jobs There are usually a bunch of jobs that require special skill, training or strength (Eg. Carrying super heavy items, coiling up cables, packing away a drum...
View Article3 Reasons to put your youth programs on a summer break
Often the rationale for taking a rest from usual programming over Christmas goes something like this: ‘heaps of families go away anyway’. This is one reason, but I think there are some other more...
View ArticleWhat qualities do you look for in student leaders?
When you look at a group of teenagers, which qualities cause individuals to stand out as ‘potential leaders’? In can be so best tempting to look at Mr Charisma, Miss Popular or Mr Gift-of-the-gab and...
View ArticleWho are you calling ‘leader’?
In some youth ministries it seems that anyone who is involved in helping out in any way (or anyone who is outside the target age range) is referred to as a ‘leader’. Personally, I reckon it’s worth...
View ArticleGetting the job done OR Helping people flourish?
As a team leader are you more focused on getting the job done or helping people flourish? The ‘Getting the job done’ leader Some leaders (yep, even youth leaders!) find themselves so excited about and...
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What young people worry about
Last year Mission Australia interviewed over 15000 Australians aged 15-19. The results are super interesting and helpful to anyone looking to engage meaningfully with teenagers. In one part of the...
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Friends have the most influence
Mission Australia’s 2012 survey asked 15000 teenagers where they go to for feedback/support/information. The results are shown below. For me, these statistics highlight just how much influence friends...
View ArticleQuality youth ministry videos
Looking for free, quality videos that will help engage your young people next time you’re teaching them? Searching through YouTube for suitable clips can be incredibly time consuming! I highly...
View ArticleAre you raising up leaders?
As youth leaders most of us would agree that its is important to raise up & invest into new leaders, but it can be hard sometimes to see how we squeeze this in to an already busy schedule. I read a...
View ArticleListen well
3 things this week reignited my desire to be a good listener 1. I had a conversation with someone who is a terrible listener: This person talked at least 80% of the time and when I was talking it was...
View ArticleDOVE’s “Evolution of Beauty” Clip: Part 2
Remember the 2006 DOVE “Evolution of Beauty” clip? You’ve probably watched it, or used it yourself when presenting to young people. It has proved to be a super useful discussion-starter. Well, the...
View ArticleWhy 30 is not the new 20
Are you 20-something years old? Do you work with 20-somethings? If you answered ‘yes’ to either of those I reckon this clip is a MUST WATCH for you. In the clip clinical psychologist Meg Jay challenges...
View ArticleResourcing youth leaders to make disciples
Earlier in the year we sent out a survey to youth leaders around the territory. We also did a bunch of one-on-one interviews with youth leaders. We wanted to gain a better understanding of how we can...
View ArticleWe don’t care how many come to your youth group
I’ve been around the youth ministry traps a while now & I have often heard the question: “How many have you got in your youth ministry?” It’s been used to measure how well a youth ministry is...
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Free DVD Resource
Keen to inspire your leaders or youth to become disciple-makers? Eager to give them examples of youth discipleship in action? Check out our “Every Salvo a Disciple-Maker” series, available for free...
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The New Youth Alpha – Highly recommended!
It’s an awesome ‘Intro to Christianity’ course but it’s also just a must-have resource for ANY youth ministry. Packed with games, analogies, movie references, stories, tips for lead leading small...
View Article4 ways to make sure people don’t catch the vision
It is a powerful thing when an entire youth ministry shares a clear, unified vision. Imagine if every leader, parent and young person in your youth ministry had the same inspiring vision on their lips...
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Find your 50-year-old youth leaders
In September this year we had a huge bunch of young people graduating year 12 (at different schools) on the same day. Some might have seen this as a problem (how could our team in 6 places at once?!)...
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