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How to start a youth ministry from scratch! (Part 3)
If you chose the “Bible Focus” youth ministry model based on your theology, values and principles (part 1), and you’ve recruited the right leaders and have the systems in place to look after them (part...
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How to Measure Ministry Growth
I love it when people ask me how our youth ministry is going, and although I usually give them some numbers to demonstrate that we’re growing numerically, it just doesn’t seem to capture what we’re...
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In defence of the Memory Verse…
This is not so much a defence of the Memory Verse because it’s particularly under attack by people who want to be rid of it, but rather a defence for my own peace of mind as I flip-flop between...
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YM Reflection 2012
I’ve decided I should do an, at least once a year, reflection on youth ministry for the year. I’m actually in the habit of reflecting on the year’s youth ministry anyway but perhaps publishing it...
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How to start a youth ministry from scratch! (Part 4a)
If you chose the “Bible Focus” youth ministry model based on your theology, values and principles (part 1), and you’ve recruited the right leaders and have the systems in place to look after them (part...
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How to start a youth ministry from scratch! (Part 4b)
If you chose the “Bible Focus” youth ministry model based on your theology, values and principles (part 1), you’ve recruited the right leaders and have the systems in place to look after them (part 2),...
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How to start a youth ministry from scratch! (Part 5)
If you chose the “Bible Focus” youth ministry model based on your theology, values and principles (part 1), and you’ve recruited the right leaders and have the systems in place to look after them (part...
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An Integrated Church – introduction
My senior minister and I haven’t ever sat down and designed a grand master plan for an integrated church with children’s and youth ministry, but what we have had is a continuing and developing...
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An Integrated Church – Truly Human
Download and read pdf version here Our starting point in this framework for an integrated church is that intergenerational ministry is first and foremost a human reality. A Human Reality… Children’s...
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YM thoughts
This horticultural analogy reminds me of church services which are based on a narrowly age defined Homogeneous Unit Principle… Let’s go for a youth ministry permaculture in our churches!! “two aspects...
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