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Many churches like to schedule most of their small groups at one location on the same night. This allows students to come together for a time of large group interaction, and then break up into small groups. Here is a recommended schedule for that meeting.

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.

Every person has values they live by. Some may be from God, some not. Here are five values that every Christian needs to know.

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.