…disaster. Likeability has nothing to do with a youthpastors ability to help students grow in their relationship with Christ. So to avoid this temptation, and make sure ask the right questions. Here are five vital questions to ask when hiring a youthpastor. What is your process to develop a students spiritual…
…YouthPastor for over 15 years. More Than a YouthPastor Superstar Just landed on this interview page over on ChurchCentral - An Open Letter to Rick Warren Perry Noble posted an open letter to Rick Warren last...An Open Letter to Yoda Just found this great article on YouthMinistry.com - here's a..…
…look for when hiring staff to your team at church. This is good when you’re thinking about future hires – and as an aside, translating this article to a volunteer context might be a way to use this perspective in your ministry today, too: #2 – Potential – At NewSpring Church we hire for potentialâ¦where…
…pastor is not really to work with students. You might have already figured that out already or I can tell you now that you will someday soon. A youth pastor’s primary role is to lead and care for the adult volunteer leadership of the church, who can in turn minister to students. If you want to hire…
two words that can kill your youth ministry mark devries College Street Church* had just hired Jack,* their new youth worker. And because he came to them with limited experience, the church provided him a year of youth ministry coaching. Our first conversation was positive enough. But after our second…
an open letter to youthpastor search committees Josh Griffin I really thought this open letter to youth worker search committees on the Reflections blog was strong - definitely a must read for anyone finding themselves in transition. Here's a clip from point #4 of his 5-point article. Good stuff here…
Simply Youth Ministry has a great new article from Saddleback intern Josh Pease. Here’s a clip of his thoughts about starting out in youth ministry. I donât know why they hired me. I was an over-confident, 23-year-old college grad with a pretty impressive resume, well impressive for someone going…
…-eagerness to hire or be hired is really, really good. There’s a lot of great observations for senior pastors to learn from in here, but it is possible the definitive book on hiring and understanding your youthpastor is yet to be written. B JG Related posts:Book Review: Sustainable Youth Ministry Just…
…or the youth-pastor-taking-a-day-off-without-clearing-it kind of surprise. We lose trust from our senior pastors in direct proportion to the number of surprises they experience from us. Please Dont Leave Youth Ministry Droppings on My Desk. Most senior ministers imagine that hiring a youth worker will…
…and I were talking over email about...PDYM YouthPastor Position Just got an email from one of the pastors over...Questions to Ask When You Cancel an Event A few random thoughts about how to help make sure...GUEST POST: 9 Questions When Planning a Youth Ministry Budget While I canât pretend to…
…your youth ministry. Instead, use this book as a guide for conducting an "abnormal" search that leads you to the right person for your congregation. This book is the ideal resource for senior pastors and church leaders responsible for hiring a new youthpastor. Before You Hire a YouthPastor delivers…
…definition of success. To youthpastors: If your youth ministry is flat, slowing or growing – take heart. God is at work changing lives in your church. Should you make some changes? Perhaps. Should you look at changing up some programs? Sure. Know that the ups and downs of youth ministry are normal, and…
…this month...Starting Out Right Really liked this new article on YouthMinistry.com today talking about...4 Skills Your Next YouthPastor Has to Have If I were a senior pastor, this is what I...7,100 Starbucks Closed for Training Did you know that over 7,000 Starbucks coffee shops today...Proactive and…
…newly hiredyouth staff to tell the church what its vision for youth ministry should be. This expectation is responsible for more derailed, inconsistent, unsustainable youth ministries than any other culprit I can imagine. Consider this imaginary case study: First Church hires Jon as its youth director…
…they hired me. I was an over-confident, 23-year-old college grad with a pretty impressive resume, well impressive for someone going into journalism or political science. The they was a growing church in Texas that was running over 2,000 people on Sundays that needed an associate student pastor. I had…
…youth worker friends: When I returned home from the youth workers convention, I went straight to my pastor's home to tell him of all I had learned and what I was excited to do. Well, I came to find out that while I was at the conference hearing Gods call for my life, my pastorhired a new youthpastor.…
how not to get a job in youth ministry Erik Williams I'm a youthpastor at a local church. I'm favored and blessed to the degree that I'm able to increase my staff. As a result, I have the privilege of hunting for someone to hire, rather than looking for a job myself. As I've been fielding rsums and…
…figured it out finally. Why keep on trying? Wouldnât being a Senior Pastor be a lot easier? Because God called us all to this! This wasnât cruel punishment for not obeying our parents or being mean to our youthpastors as we grew up. God knows that students need someone who will take a stand…
Don't gamble on finding the right youthpastor for your church. Invest the time and energy in a deliberate, intentional plan for conducting the best search possible! If you're looking for a shortcut to hiring your next youthpastor, this isn't the right resource. But if you're looking for a resource…
longevity Brian Ferry We all know the reputation: The average youthpastor stays at a church for 18 months. Ouch. And it was true and often still is true of our colleagues. However, Group Magazines research has shown that its actually more like 4 years. But perception is reality. There are too many…
…creates the opposition. In my experience, there is one reason, more than any other, that senior pastors and parents side against their youthpastors: A youthpastor neglecting the very job he or she was hired to do. Perhaps a parable can help explain what I mean. Imagine you have a job installing water…
…small church, which dates to 1810 but has dwindled to just 40 people on Sundays, voted this week to hire the former high-profile preacher, the Rev. Alvin OâNeal Jackson, 56, as their new senior pastor. JG Related posts:The TED Commandments Ministry Best Practices just posted of their love for TED.…
…life. Prayer should be a major part of how we deal with our senior pastors. Communicate with him about the youth ministry. The bottom line is you have been hired to oversee a specific area of the church. Most of the time your pastor wont know what is really going on, good or bad, unless you tell him…
…Hire Been thinking recently about some of the processes of hiring...POLL: What youth ministry magazines do you subscribe to? POLL: What youth ministry magazine do you subscribe to?...More Than a YouthPastor Superstar Just landed on this interview page over on ChurchCentral - Best of 2008: Favorite Youth…
…donât want to hire a camp counselor as your youth director, but an architect to build relationships with youth. Thatâs why hiring a full time youth director may not be the best decision. JG Related posts:4 Skills Your Next YouthPastor Has to Have If I were a senior pastor, this is what I..…
…youthpastors! This story isnt about me but about an associate youthpastor, Tim, whom I was recently able to hire at our church. What I want to extract from this email is that Tim suddenly was endeared to our congregation. Many times in my own experience, and through conversations with other youthpastors,…
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…President of Consulting for Youth Ministry Architects. Since the late 90s, he has also been the Director of Youth at Christ United Methodist Church in Venice, Florida. Other writing projects include his GROUP Magazine column and co-writing Before You Hire a YouthPastor with Mark DeVries.
…flight from Chicago to Detroit I met Joe and Jay from Yorba Linda Friends Chuch – very cool guys, they were coming out to visit Vince their newly hiredpastor of student ministries. Vince is also the host of the Training Day at Spring Arbor – kind of his swan song before he and his family move back to…
…20 something youthworkers, implementing and choosing student leaders, hiring a youthpastor, Torrie answers the Matt v. Josh questions, and upward leadership. Overheard on this episode: Coming soon. Visit the Helping Hurting Youth Workers ebay auction: A Day with the Podcast Crew Or if you would like…
