Missions Decisions Already Need to Restart Our Summer 2010 Plan
If you’re like me, most of your decisions about summer missions projects come down to two things: 1. Calendar. 2. Price.
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Jim Collins – Good Stuff
Like many of you, I have come to appreciate Jim Collins’ work. His book, Good to Great, helped me articulate some of my hunches about leadership (can anyone say hedgehog?).
Yesterday, Mark Maines,…
What’s Most Important
A few days ago I blogged about a really great phone conversation I had with a few sharp youth leaders from the same church. They called because their Sunday mornings have gotten a bit dry.
I asked them two questions…
Better Schedule for Youth Workers?
I had a great phone conversation with two very sharp youth leaders from the same church today. I asked them the question that I’m asking lots of folks these days, “How is the economy affecting you?”
Their church is responding…
Ask Your Students
For the month of December, the youth ministry at my church, Lake Avenue Church, did something different. We did small “table groups” every Sunday. Instead of students sitting in rows—shoulder to shoulder with adults and each other—we sat in groups…
Values
In spring 2007, one of our FYI Advisory Council members, Toben Heim, helped our FYI leadership team identify the key values that we wanted to permeate our organization. At that time, they were that we wanted to be research-based, practical,…
Roles and Goals
I’m a goal-oriented person; arguably too goal-oriented. I never met a goal I didn’t like.
So I’m a big fan of using calendar milestones to review the past and dream about the future. And I’m an even bigger fan of…
Time Flies Organizing Your Schedule for Optimum Results
Does time really “fly”, or do we just fail to pay attention to where our time is spent? This brief and thoughtful article offers a handful of practices to try right now as you take charge of your schedule rather than letting it take charge of you.
Open Source Advocacy…Open Source Youth Ministry?
Our friend Jeremy Del Rio (who also teaches in our Urban Youth Ministry Certificate program) is modeling what systemic approaches to justice are all about. An advocate for kids in his community and…
Turning Towards Holistic Ministry
Many of us would agree that the forms of typical youth ministry are in need of change. But towards what new forms are we turning in order to have greater transforming impact in students’ lives? Mark Maines offers an integrated asset-based model as one opportunity for re-forming our ministries in a holistic way.