by Sean Meade About the Movie Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a new family comedy based on the first book in the popular series by Jeff Kinney. Diary follows the misadventures of smart mouthed pre-teen Greg Heffley as he ...
Editor's Note: This article was originally published on rethinkingyouthministry.com and is reprinted here with permission. by Brian Kirk The Examen This is a cool ancient form of prayer that asks you to think back over the last week or month. ...
by Glenn Miller Several years ago World Vision began a movement to help raise funds to purchase food and to help feed the hungry around the world. For many years, it's been known as the 30 Hour Famine. This event ...
by Stephen Ingram The most transformative opportunities one has in student ministry are those 24-48 hour-long free-for-alls we call retreats. Retreats are excellent places to bring our groups together and create bonds and memories that will last for years to ...
by Kelly Soifer For fifteen years I served as a youth pastor in an independent, non-denominational Bible church in California, and my early experience with Lent was always the same: on Ash Wednesday I would overhear girls telling one another ...
Editor's Note: This article was originally published on rethinkingyouthministry.com and is reprinted here with permission. by Brian Kirk Getting Ready Invite students individually or in small groups to brainstorm on sticky pad notes the names/nicknames we give to Jesus that ...
Editor's Note: This article was originally published on rethinkingyouthministry.com and is reprinted here with permission. by Brian Kirk Like it or not, the "Christmas Buying Season" is upon us. Apparently, the secular culture never heard of Advent and started playing ...
Editor's Note: This article was originally published on rethinkingyouthministry.com and is reprinted here with permission. by Brian Kirk Advent, those four weeks preceding Christmas, has its origins separate from the Yuletide season. In the fourth and fifth centuries, Advent was ...
Editor's Note: This article was originally published on rethinkingyouthministry.com and is reprinted here with permission. by Brian Kirk With Christmas music and decorations appearing in stores in the middle of October, it's a sure sign that our culture needs to ...
by Mike Kupferer No youth ministry is immune to the economic hardship facing our country. In order to be better stewards of our resources (and possibly stay afloat), we all need to learn to save a few bucks. Spending a ...
by Mike Kupferer It's time for many youth ministries to turn in their budgets for the next year. The economy is tough, and churches are feeling the crunch, too. The most important thing to remember when working on your youth ...
Editor's Note: This article was originally published on rethinkingyouthministry.com and is reprinted here with permission. by Brian Kirk In this short discussion starter, written for middle school youth but adaptable for other ages, participants explore the idea that the church ...
Editor's Note: This article was originally published on rethinkingyouthministry.com and is reprinted here with permission. by Brian Kirk Engage the creative gifts of students in this prayerful activity. Divide your students into small groups of perhaps three or four. Give ...
Editor's Note: This article was originally published on rethinkingyouthministry.com and is reprinted here with permission. by Brian Kirk I'm not a big fan of big back-to-school bashes. They are sort of the bait-and-switch of the youth ministry world: We bring ...
by Hank Hilliard and Mary Dell Deweese My oldest son, Tanner, played baseball last spring in what is called a "modified coach-pitch league," which is one step up from T-ball. The batter gets seven pitches from the coach (which actually ...
Editor's Note: This article was originally published on rethinkingyouthministry.com and is reprinted here with permission. by Brian Kirk Most of us would love it if we had a group full of young people who loved to pray and were fully ...
Editor's Note: This article was originally published on rethinkingyouthministry.com and is reprinted here with permission. by Brian Kirk This summer, for the first time at my church, instead of taking a "youth mission trip," we took an "all-church mission trip." ...
Editor's Note: This article was originally published on rethinkingyouthministry.com and is reprinted here with permission. by Brian Kirk Sometimes the only way to get a different perspective on Jesus is to force ourselves to see him in a new way. ...
by Brian Kirk A friend from my seminary days recently contacted me to ask if I had any suggestions on ways to engage students in discussion so they wouldn't get bored. A tall order, as the last thing most teenagers ...
Editor's Note: This article was originally published on rethinkingyouthministry.com and is reprinted here with permission. by Brian Kirk I'm off to church camp in a few days. So as my staff and I put the finishing touches on our planning ...
