Author: Ben Bankes

Everyone is busy. If you work in youth ministry, you are painfully aware of this. The idea of mentoring a student can feel overwhelming in the midst of life’s busyness. Mentoring takes time, but below you’ll find a few tips that can help you effectively mentor students when your time is scarce.

It’s important to have a great gateway experience for people. If you adopt a small group centered model for youth ministry, you may struggle with trying to figure out what exactly is the best gateway for a student coming to your church. Here are some options for your church.

Nearly every youth leader I’ve ever met wants to mentor teenagers. Hopefully, that’s why they signed up for youth ministry in the first place. But working with teenagers can be intimidating, and make you feel awkward.

Every team needs to meet. Meetings are where we reaffirm our commitment to the mission of the team, share ideas about how to best accomplish the ministry, celebrate victories, and think through how to tackle the challenges we face.

People grow when they can participate in discovering and sharing the truth together. The resources at pursueGOD.org will help you lead engaging conversations with that result.

Streamline your kids, youth, and adult ministries so that every generation in your church is learning God’s truth together.

Great illustrations make sermons come alive. Learn how to use illustrations effectively – and mistakes to avoid – to strengthen the impact of your message.

When it comes to working with kids and students, safety must be a priority. This is why one of the principles that you must believe in if you want to work with youth is prioritize safety.

We all want to succeed in youth ministry. We want to see student’s lives changed. We want to see student’s become disciples of Jesus who disciple others. In order to ensure success, however, we need to focus on preparation.

Our goal is to help students become disciples of Jesus who make disciples of Jesus. If you want to accomplish the goal of youth ministry, then you must learn to focus on mentoring students.

You want to work with youth. That’s great! But if you are going to work with youth at your church, then it’s important that you understand the point of youth ministry.