Archive for May, 2009

Alive in Review

Posted: May 28, 2009 by youthinthecorner in Alive Worship Experiences

Teaching Series: The Face of Love Theme: Love gives Bible: Luke 10:25-32 Attendance: 295 First Time Guests: 4 Volunteers: 30 Length of Service: 50 minutes x 2 Breakdown:  Middle School Service went well.  Played a little role playing game on stage with some students and they had a blast.  Worship was good in the MS [...]

5 unspiritual things I do in youth ministry part

Posted: May 28, 2009 by youthinthecorner in Leadership

Plan…I love to plan.  Now there are scriptural foundations for planning so it is not UNspiritual but there are many circles out there in the Church world that believes everything should be led by the Spirit…planning “squeezes” out the freedom of God.  I don’t subscribe to that theology.  I believe that you should plan.  I [...]

5 unspiritual things I do in youth ministry part 3

Posted: May 27, 2009 by youthinthecorner in Uncategorized

I Twitter.  Now I don’t pretend to understand why?  I don’t know why people care to know what I have for lunch.  I don’t understand it…but I love it!  It is totally narcissistic.  I get to have everyone who cares get to join me in this thing called life.  I have gotten advice on what to [...]

5 unspiritual things I do in youth ministry part 2

Posted: May 26, 2009 by youthinthecorner in Culture, Leadership

I watch awards shows.  Some I actually like some it is like watching knowing a wreck is about to happen.  Why do I watch them even though rarely is there anything that edifies Jesus…in fact sometimes just the opposite.  I love the creativity of it.  I love how they weave in multiple senses to create [...]

5 unspiritual things I do in youth ministry

Posted: May 25, 2009 by youthinthecorner in Uncategorized

There are some things that I do in youth ministry that you won’t find in the Bible anywhere…no not even in The Message.  There are things that I believe are important to youth ministry though I cannot find a single spiritual component in it.  This next series of blogs will highlight some of my favorite [...]

Decisions decisions

Posted: May 16, 2009 by youthinthecorner in Leadership

I have never been good at making choices between 2 good options.  Some people have that knowledge of “God’s Will”.  I don’t have that.  I know what God wants me to do day by day but rarely does scripture point out details from day to day.  What about you?  How do you approach Big Decisions.  [...]

Alive Worship Review

Posted: May 14, 2009 by youthinthecorner in Alive Worship Experiences

Teaching Series: The Face of Love Theme: Masks – Love is Truthful Bible: John 4:1-39 Attendance: 293 First Time Guests: 12 Volunteers: 33 Length of Service: 50 minutes x 2 Breakdown: The Middle School crowd was jacked up!  With spring fever in the air and testing going on they were NOT interested in singing and [...]

Enough with Enough

Posted: May 12, 2009 by youthinthecorner in Leadership

When it comes to ministry I have never understood the concept of enough.  I know my critics will say that I care too much about numbers or how big my ministry is but the simple fact of the matter is how much IS enough?  When are you capped off?  When do you reach the point [...]

Alive Worship Review

Posted: May 7, 2009 by youthinthecorner in Alive Worship Experiences

Stealing a page from Josh Griffin… Teaching Series:  Collide (our monthly joint MS/HS service) Theme: Water to Wine Bible: John 2:1-11 Attendance: 330 First Time guests: 26 Volunteers: 35 Length of Service: 90 minutes Breakdown:  The theme was Water to Wine basically because we had a guest band come in and that was their name. [...]

Systems and Staffing

Posted: May 5, 2009 by youthinthecorner in Leadership, Uncategorized

Listening to a teaching from Andy Stanley recently and evaluating not only the size of our ministry but the overall health of the ministry and its leaders I felt compelled to restructure some of the way we do things here.  No grand changes really, the bulk of folk won’t even initially realize a shift.  Every [...]