3 Reasons Why Youth Need a Missional Identity for Faithful Christian Living
Empower and build up youth for faithful Christian Living. Mother Teresa said, “I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness.” If youth ministry is not about faithful Christian living at its...
View ArticleHow to Develop a Missional Identity With Youth
Look at the pieces of life to develop a missional identity How willing are you to fully engage with God in the world God loves? Are you ready to empower young people to connect their faith and the...
View Article3 Reasons Why You Should be Putting a Stamp on the World
Image courtesy of Stuart Miles / FreeDigitalPhotos.net “By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I...
View Article3 Essentials for Representing Jesus Christ in the Real World
How well are you representing Jesus Christ in the real world? Is it good enough that your young people get a picture of Jesus Christ? Is it well enough that they get an example of what it means to...
View ArticleDeveloping Great Mission Trips: 3 Basics
Great mission trips are about more than how they make youth feel “Oh my! The young people were so excited and happy to be there. They worked hard. Everybody was impressed with what they did. What was...
View ArticleLent: A Great Time For You to Witness to God’s Love
Can you show love? What have you given up for Lent? It’s an interesting question, isn’t it, as you seek to be a witness to God’s love? Of course, you and your young people may not have given up...
View ArticleAre Your Youth Missional?
Living in love [Jesus] said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your...
View ArticleWhat Is There To Be Noticed and How?
How are you noticing? One of the great things about Jesus was that he noticed. Noticed what, you may ask? Little things, big things. What and How Jesus’s noticed He noticed the lilies of the field,...
View ArticlePassion: Dead or Alive? Do You Need To Recharge?
How are you doing on the passion front? It’s a word that keeps recurring: passion. We’re advocated to have passion if we seek to communicate and persuade. The marketing world says we need passion. A...
View ArticleOut In the World With the Power of the Cross
In the midst of pain, suffering, violence, death, illness, there stands the cross, reminding us that Jesus Christ rose from the dead and conquered sin and death. In the midst of any circumstance,...
View ArticleAre You Really Seeing Or, Do You Need to Enable Sight?
Jesus was there to enable sight. After Jesus had put saliva on the man’s eyes and laid hands on him, Jesus asked the man whether or not he could see anything. Initially, the man saw people. The only...
View ArticleHow Are You Living With Purpose?
There’s a correlation between time and wisdom. Time is one of those things that can pass without us knowing where it went. The thing is, it doesn’t’ come back. That’s why living with purpose is so...
View ArticleWhy You Need to Put the Meaning and Love in Service
In an extraordinary youth ministry, hands-on ministry is more than going out and doing good deeds to feel good about oneself. Rather, hands-on ministry is grounded theologically. Adults show, from a...
View ArticleYou Don’t Have to be Silent. You Can Shout It Out.
You have good news to share, don’t you? The best. It’s about God’s love and grace and forgiveness. It’s a matter of life and death, now and in the life to come. But, what do you do when they will not...
View ArticleWhen You Look Around, Are you Seeing People or Trees?
How would you feel if you asked someone for help and that person put spit on you? That’s what Jesus did in Mark 8:22-25. After Jesus had put saliva on the blind man’s eyes and laid hands on him, Jesus...
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