Why Your Sermons Aren’t Making Disciples
Sermons don’t make disciples. They are important, but they aren’t the whole story. This post discusses what else you can do to help students grasp your message and grow their faith.
Author: Trevor Hamaker
Trevor Hamaker helps youth pastors create momentum, reach students, and grow faith in their ministries. He has over a decade of ministry experience, along with degrees in business management, organizational leadership, and religious education.
Book Review: How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge (Clay Scroggins)
Future leaders have to start leading in the present. In this book, Clay Scroggins explains how you can start to lead, even when you’re not in charge.
How I Use Evernote to Plan for Large Group Programs
Evernote has a lot of capabilities, but in this post, I want to focus on how to set it up to keep things straight from week to week.
The Fastest Way to Move Your Ministry Forward (Without Spending Any Money)
If you ask better questions, you’ll get better answers. But what are the better questions you should be asking? That’s what you’ll learn in this post…
3 Ways to Get Students Talking in Small Groups (Even If They’re Introverts)
Pass these tips along to your small group leaders, and they’ll start getting every student in the group to talk, not just the extroverts.
Book Review: Growing an Engaged Church (Albert Winseman)
What are the factors that lead to a spiritually healthy, vibrant church? In this book, Albert Winseman leverages Gallup research to arrive at surprising conclusions…
A Fresh Approach to Pastoral Counseling with Students
When a student or parent calls you, looking for help, you don’t have to refer them to a mental health professional right away. This post tells you what you can do instead…
How to Find the Purple Cow for Your Youth Ministry
Stop settling for being a smaller, more generic version of bigger ministries in your town. Create your own version instead. Here’s how…
Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Small Group
Effective small groups help students develop healthy friendships and experience spiritual growth. Don’t let these common dysfunctions derail your small groups…
Why Your Youth Ministry Will Stop Growing
You can have a great program with great hosting and a great message, but if you don’t get this right, your ministry will go wrong…
