7 Quick Tips for Leading Small Groups on Zoom
Now that our first meeting in the Zoom Room is in the books, I wanted to share a few things that helped it go as well as it did. Here’s 7 quick tips that I think will help you in your ministry.
Category: Programs
A Simple Way to Get Students to Open Up, Ask Questions, and Own Their Faith
With puberty, middle school students start to develop a new ability to think abstractly. They begin to question their childhood beliefs. In this post, I share an easy way to help them work through those questions and doubts.
How to Grow Your Youth Group: Four Simple Strategies
The early Christian movement spread because the first Christians didn’t close themselves off from non-Christians. Perhaps that might also be the key to growing your youth group in today’s post-Christian culture.
How to Build Buzz in Your Ministry
New students won’t show up to your ministry if they don’t know about your ministry. That’s why buzz matters. In this post, I share three ways to build buzz and get people talking about your ministry.
A Plea for Practical Theology (An Open Letter to Youth Pastors)
In the wake of recent Christian deconversion stories, I felt compelled to post this open letter that I included in my book, Varsity Faith. It’s a plea for practical theology to make its way into youth ministry.
A Free Tool to Measure What’s Really Happening with Your Students
You think your students are growing spiritually. But are they really? After a brief rant, I share a free tool that will help you know what’s really going on with the students in your youth ministry.
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.
5 Hosting Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make
If you start well, you can keep attention and engagement throughout the whole program. If you don’t, you’ll be driving home feeling frustrated and wondering what went wrong. Here’s how to get it right…
How You Should Be Starting Your Large Group Program
How you start your large group program determines whether or not your students will be engaged and attentive when you start your message. This post tells you exactly how to master the “Art of the Start.”
3 Reasons Why Your Games Don’t Work (and how to fix them)
You want to help students have fun, engage more, and loosen up as your program moves toward its bigger goal. This post points out 3 reasons your games don’t work, along with ideas to fix each one of them.
