Youth pastors tend to NOT like youth parachurch ministry organizations such as Young Life, Fellowship Christian Athletes-FCA, & Youth for Christ. Why? Parachurch ministry leaders are: - sheep stealers -  better at evangelism and outreach - not in...

Working IN your youth ministry = teaching, programs, emailing, phone calls, social media, small groups, staff meetings, and student & parent meetings. Working ON your youth ministry = praying, marketing strategies, vision and mission planning,...

First Michael Jackson died, now Mark Oestreicher is fired from Youth Specialties. The youth ministry world is in a trainwreck state! In case you missed it, here is the press release of the departure of YSMarko. It  must suck to be Moe Girkins, CEO...

NT Wright in his book “Justification” states:  God’s plan, God’s single plan, always was to put the world to rights, to set it right, to undo Genesis 3 and Genesis 11, sin and the fracturing of human society which results from that sin and shows...

Youth Pastors Are Mandated Reporters By Mikaela Zach (My wife who is pursuing a MFT) Each year in the US, three million child abuse reports are filed.  It is likely that three times as many cases occur but remain unreported. Four children die...