Jonathan,I'm a new youth director and my wife and I are not getting fed at our church. I don't get the support that I need and I seem to attract critizism and grief! I don't want this to sour my taste for youth ministry but I think it is beginning to. What should I do? Thanks and God bless,Joe,...
Jonathan,I have been given the exciting task of doing one Scripture Based game at our youth group meetings on Friday nights got any fun ideas? Meghan, Sudbury,ONAnswerMeghan,Thanks for the email.This is a little hard to answer because I'm not entirely sure what your purpose is on Friday nights. My guess would be that this would be a time of...
Jonathon,I am one of the two head leaders of a group of five leaders in a junior youth group. One problem IÕm finding is getting the rest of the team enthused to get and do stuff with the kids. IÕm a fairly loud person and seem to be the one that ends up playing the games with the kids...
Jonathan,I am a youth leader of a small group and I have a couple teens that haven't come to church or youth group cause there parents won't let them, they were coming real regular to both and now with sports at school and on Saturday they aren't coming. I was wandering how I can talk to the teens and...
Hi Jonathan,I feel guilty about a mistake I feel that I made. I will never forget, and the consequences were catastrophic. I had one of those troubled kids who gave me nothing but problems. Every time I turned around I was dealing with this kid. He had a lot of issues and came from a broken home. It seemed...
Jonathan,I'm working with an inner-city youth group that is a real difficult group to work with. One of the most frustrating things is when we try to have fun and play games with them, they end up finding ways to destroy the game or cheat at it so that nobody ends up having fun. I don't really want to...
Jonathan,I have a ministry that involves mentoring urban kids. They range in age from 9-19. Basically I try to do for them everything a caring father would do for them .... rides to sports, shopping, etc ... alot of day to day stuff. Ok, here is the background and the problem. When the kids do some work for me...