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Using Social Media to Spark Spiritual Growth
News Flash: Teenagers use social media. A lot. 96% of Canadians ages 15-24 are using social media....
Five Emails You’re Forgetting to Send
Your schedule is packed. Your inbox is full. You can’t keep up with the Facebook messages. The...
How Do We Help Students Make Friends?
In youth ministry, I’ve realized that the real test of our ministry is when students graduate – Do...
I Am The Lord’s Servant
This Christmas I'm reading through Timothy Keller's book "Hidden Christmas: The Surprising Truth...
7 Productivity Apps for Youth Workers
I’m a tools junkie. I love when new apps come available that might help me do my job more...
Water in the Desert
As the last student trickles out of the house Cara lingers, waiting to see if we can talk. Cara...
Caring for Rockstars (aka Volunteers)
Volunteers are rockstars. As point youth workers, we couldn’t do what we do without them. They are...
Is Purity Really Possible?
It was a couple of years ago that I sat with a father, listening to a story of the destructive...
Road to [Camp] Recovery
For 15 years my family and I have spent our summers travelling and speaking at various camps...
Thinking Inside the Box
Here's a tool I've used for many years to help me come up with creative ideas for livening up a...
4 Ways to Run a Parents Meeting That Parents Actually Want to Attend
Running a parents meeting that no one shows up to is almost seems to be a right of passage for...
A Life-giving, Soul-filling Day Away with God
Why Sabbath? When was the last time you had a day to yourself where at the end of it you felt...