Tips for Developing a Youth Ministry Establishing a Strong Foundation: Clear Vision and Purpose: Define your ministry’s goals: Faith growth, service, community, or a combination. What impact do you want to have on young lives? Understanding Your Audience: Know...
Last month, we talked about service and summer activities and mission trips. What about hosting a community-wide program from your own building? MartinsList – Open Sources Children and Youth MinistryLooking for peer-reviewed materials for your children’s...
What makes youth group and kids clubs different from other groups, teams, clubs in which youth and children participate? For me, it is the following four activities: prayer, scripture, outreach and service. Fellowship and fun are a by-product of beings with...
FAMILY MINISTRY is one of the greatest opportunities we have to teach kids, develop leaders, and equip parents in order to pass along the faith to the next generation. To those who work in Kids/Youth Ministry, it makes perfect sense to focus on the children. We...
Get (and keep) a calendar. You can’t plan the year ahead if you don’t know what the year looks like. Start big. Write down all the big, important, we-do-them-every-year, this-isn’t-going-to-change-unless-the-rapture-happens dates first (Easter,...
WHAT IS YOUTH MINISTRY? This is the proverbial question. For many of us involved in day-to-day ministry, we might answer with comments like, Sunday (or Wednesday) night programming, relationships,” or discipleship, but these answers tend to skip important...
