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Leadership, Music

Why Youth Groups Should Consider Ditching Worship

For anyone who works with students, we make it our job to visit schools, strip malls and skate parks; trying to connect with unchurched youth. The passion is pure, with a deep desire for those students to know and follow Jesus. Yet, the youth church (not the youth group) we create couldn’t be more uncomfortable for these students.

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Communication, Leadership

How a “Trader” Is a New Kind of Missionary

In my Youth Pastor days, we worked through something called Trader Projects. It was part of our High School Discipleship series. The students set up official officers (President, Vice Pres., Secretary & Treasurer), and chose the type of ministry, or service that they endeavour to invest in.

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Communication, Leadership

Answering the Question, “What Is a Trader?”

We entered into week two of our Trader projects this past Sunday night. For those of you who aren’t in the loop on what I’m actually talking about; I suggest you check my previous post based on Surrender Self before reading any further.

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Ministry, Outreach

How Booking a Missionary Speaker Brings New Perspective To Your Student Ministry

We received a call wondering if we were interested in hearing from a couple of missionaries from Mexico, with Northern Lights Ministries. They were visiting Alaska and were willing to speak to our students about their mission work.

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Adventure, Discipleship, Ministry

The Benefit of Embracing Stories Instead of Checklists

During my youth pastor days, we worked through John Eldredge’s  EPIC series within our High School Discipleship program. John explains Christianity as a great story that we are living. He proposes that history’s great stories became great because they have the key elements of our story.

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