I work for a Christian NGO that primarily delivers a mentoring program to high-risk young people. Selling the idea of a mentoring program is one of the hardest things I have to do. Not to the supporters and donors but to the young people. This is because mentoring is one of the most misunderstood concepts…
The problem with purity (part 1)
There are conversations we have in church leadership where I understand why Jesus started drawing in the sand. Although every preacher speculates I don’t think the content of the drawing was important. It was probably more like doodling while on the phone. Are we talking about this again? Once I had two great volunteer leaders who were very…
Counting heads – Things youth pastors do (part 1)
Youth pastors tend to be creative counters of people. I have a friend who is a youth pastor of twenty plus years experience. He once told me that he counts the attendance, adds five and then rounds up to the nearest ten. For example if 31 young people turn up he tells the senior pastor 50 young people were…
What does their home look like?
In all my years of youth work, youth ministry and pastoring, so much of my online feeds have been filled with Christians talking about what a family “should” look like and never do we ask what do our youth’s families actually look like.
Nokia phones and todays youth ministryscape
Many of the fundamentals of what we believe haven’t changed since Jesus walked the planet. Though the world we live in today looks nothing like first century Palestine. Recently I read this article on Linkedin about Microsoft buying up Nokia and it got me thinking. When I was starting out in youth ministry, phones were a…
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