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Explore Adventures in Missions’ Youth Ministry trips, where we nurture faith, foster leadership, and build a supportive community for young people to explore their spirituality, engage in meaningful discussions, and participate in transformative service projects.

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30 December 2006

My vote for best youth ministry blog of the year

Youth pastors are caught between a rock and a hard place, wanting to disciple, but having to please constituencies who favor programs over discipling relatio…

03 December 2006

Former pastor apologizes to youth pastor

As I was surfing the net this morning, I ran across this story of Tim Schmoyer, a youth pastor who had to leave a position and how the pastor r…

01 December 2006

If Jesus advertised for a youth pastor

For an indicator of the state of youth ministry, just look at the Christian job posting web sites ChurchStaffing.com or ChristianPlacements.com. The latter s…

30 November 2006

The rest of the story – tracking 5 youth pastors who got booted

I love Paul Harvey’s show, “The Rest of the Story” – he shares stuff that we probably didn’t know about famous events and people. Yesterday I blogged about h…

29 November 2006

Youth ministers must disciple!

In the last 30 years, the Church in America has produced a generation of professional youth pastors. They care about youth and want to impact them for Jesus,…

28 November 2006

Youth pastors face huge challenges and need help

The average youth worker got into the field because he or she wanted to disciple young people. But something happened along the way. The youth pastor embrace…

23 September 2006

Too busy to make disciples

I took a poll of ten youth pastors. They concluded that, “the biggest impediment for us in discipling our students is that school and all the other activitie…

13 September 2006

Bios on next year’s World Racers

Here are the bios on next year’s World Racers. After a heavy day of teaching, counseling and prayer, one of the teams decided to not feed themselves dinne…

Three youth groups that work

If you’re a youth pastor, you have to wonder, “How do we disciple young people like Jesus did in today’s society?” The answer is, you can’t; our culture is s…

What can camping do to help self-absorbed young people?

In a past blog, I said that there are limits to what camping can do for self-absorbed young people who have never learned to give. A reader wrote me with thi…

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