There’s a Hole In Our Mission When I was 16 years old, a knuckleheaded college student named Joe asked me to help him lead a middle school Young Life team in my town. We played guitar to Goo Goo Dolls songs, we had epic events, we spent lunch time in middle...
Finding Your Focus You belong here. It’s one of the phrases that has marked our youth ministry over the last year. Families saw it as they entered our programs and their students lived it. Everything we did reinforced belonging. Imagine a safe place to develop healthy...
How Linear Thinking Limits Long-Term Growth We are such linear creatures. I mean, I don’t know about you, but I have a very limited working knowledge of time, which, by default, is generally measured in terms of my own lifespan. When I was 21, for instance, 35 was...
Feed Faith Not Fear: Youth Ministry and COVID-19 “I’m scared. How long is this going to last? I’m so bored!” We know you’ve heard this already, just like we have, and we’ve only just begun! As school districts close, and we all start the process of “social...
