My last post set out five firm foundations for a growing youth group. As promised, I now intend to expand on each foundation and to provide some ideas to show how easy it can be to see growth happen in our groups….
Picture the scene… the youth group is buzzing, there’s a trickle of newcomers each week, there’s an excitement about meeting together, young people pray for each other and want to encourage one another to live for Christ. The end of the meeting…
We have a music jukebox in our church’s youth room where people can choose to play whatever songs are on it. Last week I overheard a conversation about a song (unfortunately the particular track escapes me). Basically the conversation went along the…
It’s that thing we always want more of, never seem to use effectively and yet is the best gift we can give to anyone. What is it? Time. Because it is so precious to all of us, it can become an amazing…
The busier I seem to find myself becoming, the harder it is to stop and yet the irony is that in order to be able to handle the busyness, stopping is exactly what I need to do. I first discovered this a…
I just came across an interesting free download from MinistryAllies, offering 43 ideas for starting, growing, and deepening relationships with teenagers outside of traditional youth group programmes. ‘Tear Down the Walls of the Youth Room’ by Nick Arnold is an American publication…