Groups work best when youth staff, parents, and volunteers join forces. Here are several ideas to keep in mind as you build a team: • Six verses in Ephesians — Read Ephesians 4:11-16. It says a group grows healthy when many members invest. Pray this passage to God. (I like to read it aloud and […]
Category: Influence & leadership
Getting parents and other adults involved
It was a summer afternoon and four students were walking the side of the road on their way to youth group. One of our men spotted them and lurched his Suburban onto the grass, gunning the engine as if to plow them over. They screamed, scattered, laughed, and piled on the back bumper for a […]
We’d better believe it
Celebrated magazine editor, Tina Brown, observed earlier this month that President Obama’s recent speeches raise more questions than they answer: It’s a strange paradox for a great wordsmith, but whenever Obama makes an important policy speech these days he leaves everyone totally confused. His first health-care press conference . . . left his hopeful followers […]
Set a soul-strengthening pace
Each new day is brimming with opportunity. Overflowing with it. Awash. To allow one’s self to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, To surrender to too many demands, To want to help everyone in everything, Is to succumb to violence. Frenzy destroys our inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of […]
You know what I need
For one full year I rode a Honda ST1100 to work. All year. Six sweaters in winter and a yellow slicker for rain. One day, friends invited us for dinner. Though it was pouring, I rode there straight from work, dry as a dustball in my bright yellow rain suit. The problem was, these friends […]
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