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(Continuation of Youth Pastor Challenge week) What are you doing to help your students apply your teachings? This isn’t a rhetorical question, I’d really love to know so if you get a second leave a comment. I’ll explain later in the week where this question comes from and why I could use your help.

This week on CurryStew.org I’ll be posting some of challenging questions and thoughts that I ask myself on a regular basis that help me stay centered  as I allow God to use my life to advance His kingdom. Every day there will be at least one post dedicated to this challenge week. What could you [...]

Loved these thoughts from The Center for Youth/Parent Understanding on understanding peer pressure.  These are great for parents AND youth workers! The article gave these two point: “First, recognize that negative peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity during the adolescent years.  Second, recognize that the nature of negative peer pressure has changed since we were [...]

Found this in my Leadership folder in my Evernote stuff and wanted to pass these thoughts along in case you haven’t seen them.  It’s from Kurt Johnston, who by the way is A LOT shorter in person than you may think from the Simply Jr. High Podcast he does, but great thoughts none the less. [...]

(Random photo that I found…wish I had some glasses like this.) Yesterday I posted about types of leadership we have in GSM and today I just want to post the main thing I look for in volunteer leaders. Here it is: Do they love Jesus Do they care about students (legitimately care) Do they desire [...]

It’s impossible to lead a team without knowing who they are.  So, one of the things that I frequently do is look at “who” our leaders are.  Most of this happens through conversation and watching them.  As I was looking at our leadership recently, I figured out that based on how we do ministry, we [...]

Just finished our dating/sex series at GSM High School last night and here’s a few tips that helped make the series a huge success for us. Do the series. Don’t dodge the topic. Simple. Do the series for the right reasons. Do the series because you love students enough to want them to know the [...]

Sitting in my hotel room at Kalahari Resort (I’m speaking at a retreat this weekend) and found this in one of my Evernote folders from last September and thought it was worth posting.  Have no idea where I clipped it from off the internet but I think this is good stuff to know, especially considering [...]

(Pic I took of Rick at the SYMC2010) “If there isn’t a possible of danger it isn’t really an adventure, or if there isn’t a some challenge it might not be an adventure, & if ur watching from the sidelines you’re not really  apart of that adventure.” By Rick Lawrence talking about how Student Ministry [...]

These are just a few photos I took from the Nicole C. Mullen concert at SYMC2010. This is BEFORE I started balling in the concert.  When she sang “my redeemer lives” I lost it!  Such a great reminder for me that God is so much bigger than my life, family, ministry, church, world. Every time [...]