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Question for the Community: Bridging the Divide

I’m a volunteer in my church’s youth ministry. There are plenty of unchurched kids but our problem is that we don’t know how to get them connected into “big church” on Sundays. Plus the atmosphere in the midweek is too rough for some of our church parents, so they don’t want their kids coming to the midweek…

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Episode 181 - Josh Is Running Late...

Josh joins the fun a little late. After waiting 30 minutes, the gang pulled in Cathy for a short time till Josh arrived. You won't believe why he was late! Our faithful listeners had questions: ministry internships, discerning a call out of youth ministry, leaders expectations, getting a graduate degree, new church navigation and much more. Oh, and Doug lost a bet to podcast listener Rick Barry.

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Question for the Community: Starting Small Groups

I’ve only been in my position for about 3 months. The previous youth pastor had fallen out of love with student ministry. We have about 130 kids in our ministry and this is my first ministry job. The majority of these students haven’t had much spiritual growth. I want to implement small groups. What is the best way to do this? In college they never taught us how to do this..…

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Question for the Community: Growing Pains

Our youth group has grown by about 15 students over the past 3 month, taking us from 45 to 60 on a regular basis. The excitement our group has right now is awesome and it's been a blessing getting to know all of these new students. But with these new students, drama has been introduced to our group that wasn't there before…

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Question for the Community: Playlist for Large Groups

Does anyone have a good playlist for large group nights? I’m looking for two; one for the hang out time before and after, and then another one for the games/rec time.

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Episode 180 - Honorary Doctorate

The Garage is busy with playful banter, shameless blog promotions and Matt’s eternal wisdom. This week the gang takes on lots of great questions including getting a formal education vs. real-world experience, training volunteers, student leadership, sticky faith, the spouse’s role in the youth ministry, book recommendations, using other people’s resources/sermons and much more. The whole time, Josh and Matt are hoping to receive honorary doctorates from show sponsor Azuza Pacific University.

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Question for the Community: Bi-Vocational Youth Ministry

I'm just recently became a bi-vocational student pastor. Any suggestions on how this should be done? I'm new at this.

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Question for the Community: Supplemental Ministry Experience to College

I'm an aspiring youth pastor and am currently in college for communications. I would like to hear any advice or resources you might recommend to supplement my non-ministry schooling to prepare me for the ministry. FYI, I am involved heavily as a volunteer in my church youth ministry.

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Question for the Community: Object Lessons

Do you know of any book or video resources for great object lessons? I love incorporating visuals into my messages and have a few of my own, but I'm always looking for more…

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Question for the Community: Book of Revelation

My students really want to study the book of Revelation... crazy, right? Are there any books or studies that would make it easy for students? Honestly, do you know of any that would make it easy for me as well? This is probably the most difficult area of the Bible for me, too, so I need all the help I can get.

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