Following Well and Why It Matters

Following Well and Why It Matters

I spent about 6 years as a volunteer in youth ministry before I became a Youth Pastor. During that time, I found myself waiting, not so patiently, for my opportunity to lead. I began to feel a growing call to ministry, specifically youth ministry, and I wanted to lead...
Encouragement When You Least Expect It

Encouragement When You Least Expect It

When I started youth ministry about 7 years ago I thought I could do it all. I had great ideas for games, sermon series, etc. I did what most of youth pastors would do. I would think outside the box. I even had a sermon about shaping your character and I cut my hair...
What’s It Like To Serve On Your Team?

What’s It Like To Serve On Your Team?

  When I think about the great teams I have been a part of in the past, I think of three main components which were in play. The first is Vision. We all know the Bible verse: without a vision the people will perish (Proverbs 29:18) and it plays out in real life....
Unintended Consequences

Unintended Consequences

You have seen it in movies and read about it in books… those plot changes that get slipped in to the storyline to show you what would have happened if…  If she had turned right instead of left.  If he had accepted the challenge to drag race.  If he had...
Plastic Poop and Other Deep Matters of YM

Plastic Poop and Other Deep Matters of YM

Why am I here? Have you ever asked yourself that? Yesterday, in the middle of a run down dollar general, I found myself – a grown man – buying (among other things), some fake plastic poop. Yep. And a reindeer mask. And some ornaments for a game called, I...