Leading a Youth Ministry

3 Steps to Developing a Youth Ministry Strategy
Developing a youth ministry strategy will help your youth group grow. Here are 3 steps to create an effective strategy for youth ministry.

How to Know If You’re Leading an Effective Youth Group
Do you know if you’re leading an effective youth group, or what an effective youth group really is?

How to Join 2021’s Most Effective Youth Evangelism Training Seminar
You want your students thriving in a personal, loving relationship with Jesus. You want them actively, passionately sharing their faith with their friends. How do you encourage and motivate them

The Biggest Threat to Your Youth Ministry
What would you say is the biggest threat to your youth ministry? Teen apathy? Parental apathy? Little to no budget? A non-supportive pastoral staff? A church that looks at youth

Youth Ministries that thrive have this in common
Although I am no longer a youth leader, I talk to youth leaders all the time. Connecting with youth leaders from all sorts of settings, denominations and backgrounds, is one

The Power of the Gospel and the Potential of Teens
If I were to choose a bumper sticker slogan for my life it would probably be “The power of the Gospel and the potential of teens.” My entire family was

3 SUPER STRATEGIC reasons we should focus on reaching teenagers for Christ
This is my 30th year in youth ministry. I founded Dare 2 Share in 1991 with the goal of reaching the next generation with the hope of Jesus. Since then,

Is It Possible We’re Missing the Point in Youth Ministry?
A first grade teacher once asked the father of an easily distracted boy to create a “Focus Card” that could be laid on the young student’s desk whenever he got

Weird, but True, Youth Ministry Insights
Dangerous risks…Formidable odds…Mortal peril…Shifting alliances…Dead-of-the-night escapes… Rumblings of revolution! Sounds like an intense, high-paced action movie plot, doesn’t it? Or could it be that high stakes, long odds, shifting alliances,

How to Leave a Legacy that Lasts
We all want to leave a lasting legacy in our ministries, but how can we know if we’re truly making an impact? Hear from a youth ministry veteran about what kind of ministry “fruit” you should be measuring.

3 Keys to Motivating and Mobilizing Your Students for Youth Evangelism
Are your students on board with your efforts to build a Gospel Advancing youth ministry? Find helpful ways to motivate your students toward evangelism in this week’s Mobilize.

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