Category: youth ministry
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November 2014: Youth Pastors in the News
Here’s a list of headlines from the month of November for the Google News search term, “Youth Pastor.” I’ve deleted multiple links to the same instance. 11/30/14 Beachy named new pastor at Centreville church – Sturgis Journal – MI 11/20/14 Queens Youth Ministry Accused of Sexually Assaulting Teen Girl – WABC-TV -NY 11/19/14 Arsonists Burn Down Their Former Youth Pastor’s…
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It’s About Measurables
“Ministry isn’t about numbers.” There’s some truth to this. But it’s also a cliche. It’s a mischaracterization of reality that is absolutely killing youth ministry. You can’t read the book of Acts and say… “Yeah, it’s not about numbers.” You can’t check your belief about hell and conclude, “It’s not about numbers.” You can’t check…
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October 2014: Youth Pastors in the News
Here’s a list of headlines from the month of October for the Google News search term, “Youth Pastor.” I’ve deleted multiple links to the same instance. 10/30/14 – Ex-Pekin Youth Pastor Charged in Child Porn Case – Northwest Herald – IL 10/29/14 – Youth pastor electrocuted hours after sharing life goals – Christian Examiner – Toronto, ON 10/28/14…
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The American Teenager: A Sexting Machine?
(if the clip doesn’t show up in your browser, here’s the link) In her latest movie, “Men, Women and Children,” Jennifer Garner plays an overprotective mom who obsessively monitors her daughter’s every keystroke, reading all her texts and even deleting objectionable ones. Source I’m over it. The media invented the term sexting out of thin air. They…
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New video from Praying Pelican Missions
People ask me what makes Praying Pelican Missions different and why I’m a bit of a fanboy? This brand spanking new video helps explain it. Disclosure: Sometimes I do blog for PPM and they are a partner of ours. But, in this case, I’m posting the video because it’s new and does a great job of…
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Immigration and Youth Ministry
The Problem U.S. Customs and Border Protection estimates that since October 2013, 66,000 children and teenagers have crossed the U.S. border without their parents, most of them from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. They’re escaping gangs, street violence, and extreme poverty in their countries and usually coming to meet family members who live here. source A Reasonable…
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Why are we investing in Open?
This weekend was our first Open event of the season, Open Denver. In two weeks I’ll go up to Vancouver. Then in late October we’re hosting two Open events on the same weekend, one in Seattle and the other in Paris. (Both cities have towers as their landmark, I’ll let you guess which one Kristen…
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The Value of Academic Preparation in Professional Youth Ministry
One of the challenges in youth ministry, as a profession, is that there are a lot of entry points but not a lot of agreed upon credentials. A short list of how people get into youth ministry as a vocation: They earn an undergraduate or graduate degree in youth ministry. Or a more general ministry…
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Announcing the Student Justice Conference
Things have been a little loco around The Youth Cartel. While our team has grown, a little, we’re continuing to roll out new stuff at a pretty incredible pace. (We launched 5 new products this week!) Not to be lost in that was our big… MONSTER…. MEGA announcement on Tuesday of our very first event for students, the…
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Responding to Angry Parents
One of my goals this year has been to write for stuff beyond The Youth Cartel, my blog, and other things I’d labels as my comfort zone. So while I’m perfectly comfortable hanging out with Jeremy Lee of Parentministry.net. (A site I helped build a few years back, in the course of developing that site…