Jonathan,I just took a full time youth pastor position a few months ago and this is my first time. I'm still learning how to do everything, including preaching. I'm getting better at preaching but I don't know how to effectively end the service. Right now I usually conclude with reviewing my points and giving people time...
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How do we meet the needs of both outreach kids and growth kids for our weekly youthgroup meetings?
Jonathan,HELP!!! I am the Youth Director at our church and we just had our first youth meeting for the year! We had a great turnout in terms of numbers! We had about 30 kids. Our church is small and we did not know how many young people to expect. Here's the problem/opportunity:9 youth from...
I had a question, and was looking for your opinion on - Tattoo's, I had a student ask me about them, and me being a person of 2 tattoos, was maybe looking for someone else's opinion on the subject. thank you inadvance for your time.CharisseAnswerCharisse,I think that anyone that has a tattoo is going to Hell! Oh... you...
The leader of our men's fellowship has asked the youth leaders for some ideas as to how we can involve the Men in our church with the youth. Do you have any ideas?AnswerBrad... thanks for the email.What an awesome situation to be in. That's great when someone in the church comes up to you and asks you...
Jonathan,I just wanted to thank you for a great website. All of the information from your website is now contained in a 3 ring binder that I can count on to point me towards a good game for our kids on a weekly basis. Our group of over a hundred is taking two busses up to the mountains this...
Jonathan,Hi my name is Heidi Fries and I am a new youth leader at a local church in my community. My best friend is the other youth leader with me. My problem is that we have different views on how we should teach the youth. She wants the "traditional, read out of the Bible" kind of lessons, where I...
Jonathan,One of my friends told me that you have events like scavenger hunts on your site. I've been on your site - and I haven't seen one! Where are they?BillAnswerBill,Let's see ... where would I go to find an event ... possibly ... THE EVENT & ACTIVITY IDEAS PAGE! Then, get in your car, drive to the nearest Wal...