Average Youth Ministry

Providing an easy onramp back to the church

benjaminkerns — Mon, 13 May 2013 11:00:43 +0000

Oh, How Nice It Would Feel To Drop the Hammer of Truth! I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve had high schoolers lay into me about how youth group doesn’t do it for them anymore, or about how they need something with more depth. Sometimes I lie awake at night, imagining all the ways [...]

Volunteers: God´s strange plan for increased ministry:

benjaminkerns — Thu, 09 May 2013 11:00:27 +0000

Being The Hub of Ministry For most of my ministry career I have worked in smaller contexts where it was totally possible to connect with all the students in my ministry. I was the logistical and relational hub for my ministry. I don´t even think this was necessarily a bad thing. I was my job, my [...]

5 ways to thrive in a church bureaucracy:

benjaminkerns — Mon, 06 May 2013 11:00:27 +0000

It was finally here! It was the day I had been looking forward to ever since I started looking to be on a church staff as a paid youth worker. It was my first day on the job, and to make the day even better, we were going to have a staff meeting that day! [...]

Should you take that job?

benjaminkerns — Wed, 01 May 2013 11:00:14 +0000

That is a question I regularly get asked by my friends in ministry. And one I ask myself every time Doug (Fields that is) calls me and tries to talk me into working for him to help train his up and coming youth workers. The truth is, I am a paid youth worker and I [...]

A post-Christian model for Discipleship: Spiritual Formation rather than Behavior Modification

benjaminkerns — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:00:12 +0000