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Question for the Community: Lengthening Tenure of Youth Ministers

In January, I just began my Ph.D. in Leadership. I want to focus on the Theology of Leadership track, specifically within youth ministry. My goal is to teach youth ministry at the collegiate level. I want to pick your brain about areas of youth/youth ministry leadership that need to be researched. I really have a passion for seeing the next generation of youth ministers succeed beyond the typical 5 year ministry window. Our churches need stable youth ministers that can stay with it for the long haul…

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Question for the Community: Teens Who Have Lost a Parent

I was recently asked this question, “What is a good gift to give a pre-teen and a teen who have just lost a parent…

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Question for the Community: Resources for Families of Divorce

What are good resources for helping with families of divorce? In my church, 90% of the students that attend are in a split or remarried home. Help! I came from a great home and I need help bridging the gap.

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Question for the Community: Merging Youth Ministries

There’s a great opportunity on the horizon for our church as we have been approached by another church whose looking at the possibility of combining youth ministries (they are having financial troubles)…

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Question for the Community: Visiting Other Ministries

My senior pastor has tasked me with an interesting assignment. He wants me to find one youth ministry anywhere in the United States which is doing outreach events really well. He also would like me to find one youth ministry that is doing discipleship really well; i.e., placing kids in distinct environments and assessing where they are and moving them through some sort of process. If these churches happen to be one in the same, then great…

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Question for the Community: How to Find Balance

I work part time running a junior high ministry in a growing church & have been there for the past 4 years. Two years ago I got married and this year had a baby girl. Since these major I have been struggling to balance youth ministry, family time, and working a full time job…

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Question for the Community: Ways to Kick Start a New Youth Ministry

I am about to become a youth pastor of a small but growing congregation in Arkansas. The student ministry is very small (less than ten students). What do you recommend/advise I should do to create awareness of the churches' student ministry? What would be some good ways to kick-start growth in ministry? I am currently reading Doug's book, First Two Years, but would always appreciate additional advice.

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Question for the Community: Ministry in a Slow Economy

What are you all doing in ministry to accommodate for the recession? I'm feeling the need to be more conservative in my budget and I am also seeing the need for events/trips to cost less for families (even though the prices of gas and food keep increasing)…

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Question for the Community: Transitioning from Full Time-Part Time

I've been a bi-vocational minister for about 5 years. As the economy continues to struggle, I'm having more and more friends leave the ministry because churches can't support them in a full-time capacity. What advise do you have on transitioning from a full-time role to a part-time role? What advise can you recommend to the church to be able to keep a YM focus? What changes need to be addressed up-front; such as reduced office hours, reduced programming, vacation time balance, etc…

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