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Author: Trevor Hamaker

Trevor Hamaker (DMin, McAfee School of Theology) is an author, adjunct professor, and youth ministry coach. He helps youth pastors see their potential, develop their skills, and reach their goals.
Strategy

5 Steps to Transition Your Ministry from a Cruise Ship to a Battle Ship

5 Steps to Transition Your Church or Ministry from a Cruise Ship to a Battle Ship

In the new normal, ministries that were accustomed to operating like cruise ships, offering everything to everyone, will have to shift. In this post, I share 5 steps to help you do that.

Preaching

4 Ways to Keep Students’ Attention During Your Sermon

4 Ways to Keep Students' Attention During Your Next Sermon

You don’t want to waste your time delivering sermons that don’t stick with your students. In this post, I share four practical ways to keep their interest and reboot their attention while your preaching.

Personal Development

How Do You Know When It’s Time to Go?

How does a youth pastor know when it's time to go?

I don’t want you to leave too early. But I also don’t want you to stay too long. Sometimes it’s a thin line between the two. In this post, I share five signs that it’s time to go.

Events, Personal Development, Programs, Strategy

How Youth Pastors Can Be More Creative and Spark New Ideas

How Youth Pastors Can Be More Creative and Spark New Ideas in Youth Ministry

As a youth pastor, you’re always having to come up with creative ideas for your next program, sermon, game, event, or activity. […]

Personal Development

Which Type of Youth Pastor Are You?

Which Kind of Youth Pastor Are You?

Some youth pastors are hardly working while others are working really hard. No matter which side of the spectrum you’re on, this post has something for you…

Personal Development

Don’t Sacrifice Your Family on the Altar of Ministry (3 Tips to Restore Balance in Your Life)

Don't sacrifice your family on the altar of ministry (3 tips from Choosing to Cheat by Andy Stanley)

As youth pastors, we want to point students toward Jesus. But sometimes our own families feel left out. It’s a cycle that’s hard to break. In this post, I share 3 tips from Andy Stanley that can help restore balance in your life…

Environment

How to Make Your Youth Ministry Room Better (Fixing Four of the Most Common Problems I’ve Seen)

How to Make Your Youth Ministry Room Better (Fixing Four of the Most Common Problems I've Seen)

If you’re a youth pastor, you want to create an awesome space for students to meet. Here, I share practical tips for how you fix the most common problems that I see with youth rooms…

Preaching

Assume They’re in the Room (How to Address Different Types of Students with Your Message)

When you deliver your message, you have to bend the application of it to meet students where they’re at. This post features a video in which I explain three ways to do exactly that.

Personal Development, Strategy

How to Think Like a Missionary in Youth Ministry

How to Think Like a Missionary in Youth Ministry

Youth culture has distinctive elements that differ so much from adult culture that youth ministry fits the description of missionary work. This post examines lessons learned from successful missionaries and applies them to youth ministry.

Personal Development, Strategy

7 Lessons for Youth Pastors that I Learned from The Last Dance

7 Lessons from The Last Dance for Youth Pastors

We can always learn from successful people and teams. When I finished watching The Last Dance, I thought about what I’d seen and then wrote down these valuable lessons for youth pastors.

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