LeaderTreks Youth Ministry Blog Articles by Guest Contributor
About the Author
The LeaderTreks Blog is proud to share the hard-earned wisdom of student ministry leaders from many different backgrounds and professions. From time to time, we will feature guest blog posts from writers other than our regular contributors. We include these posts to provide additional perspectives and insight that we’re sure will help develop you and your ministry in profound ways.
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GROW YOUR LEADERSHIP
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The 5 Purposes of Youth Ministry
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FREE “Thankful” Instagram Bible Verses For Your Youth Ministry
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What is Spiritual Maturity?
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WHAT KIND OF EVANGELISM IS GEN Z LOOKING FOR?
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Don’t Let Students Waste This Summer
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Sowing in the Soil of Doubt
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What Do Your Students’ Personality Types Mean?
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Great Ideas for Summer Self-Care
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Walking Your Students through the Unthinkable
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COVID-19: A Message from an Asian Youth Worker
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Dealing with a Failing Student Leadership Program
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The Best Graduation Gift: Mission
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Partnering with Parents of Graduating Seniors
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5 Questions to Ask Every Senior
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8 Ways to Show Value to Volunteers
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How To Create A Youth Group Playlist
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Get Your Church on Board with Student Leadership
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The Lie About Missions
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Senior Send Off Ideas: 3 ways to Send Them Off Right
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Is It All About the Numbers?
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Simplify Your Communication to Volunteers
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Our Favorite Youth Ministry Fundraisers
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My (Worst) Summer Internship
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If Christmas Characters Were Youth Workers
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Serving ≠ Servant
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4 Common Disciple-Making Delusions
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Not a Planner? Me Neither. But You Still Need a Plan.
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God Doesn’t Need You
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Moved by Compassion
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What You Should *Never* Give Up for Lent
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Put Your Sermon on a Diet
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Help! My Student is Addicted To …
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7 Ways to Spot Your Students’ Hidden Addictions
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So Much More Than Pizza Parties
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The False Gods Your Students May Be Worshiping
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Help! My Ministry Feels Stuck
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4 Truths about Overly Critical Parents
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Trim the Fat from Your Schedule
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Ministering to Homeless Youth
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9 People Every Youth Worker Should Know
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Beyond Conventional Youth Ministry
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3 Ways to Help Middle Schoolers Survive the High School Transition
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Are Your Students Prepared for School?
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The Power of Boredom in a Culture of Distractions
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Leadership Doesn’t Just Happen
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Discipleship Is Not a Buffet!
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Sarcasm Has No Place in Youth Ministry
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Get More than a Farmer’s Tan from Your Summer Getaway
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For Such a Time as This: Leadership Lessons from Columbine
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2 Partnering-with-parents Mistakes I’ll Never Make Again
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One Conversation You Need to Have before Your Seniors Graduate
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A Small Shift to Turn Disciples into Disciple Makers
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When ‘Being Real’ Backfires
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Don’t Settle for Cookie-cutter Leadership
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A Volunteer Meeting They’ll Actually Look Forward To
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Committing to Low-commitment Students
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Sports Programming versus Youth Ministry
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Less Message Writing, More Relationship Building
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Delegation Won’t Save Your Sanity
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What Movie Should I Show My Youth Group?
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Finding Magnet Volunteers
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No Expiration Date for Veteran Volunteers
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Calling and Passion are Not Enough
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Breaking Down Barriers (While Keeping Some Boundaries)
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When Boundaries Become Barriers (Part 1)
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3 Ways You’ve Misjudged Your Star Student
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Reject Your Volunteers’ Bad Excuses
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When I Think Back to Youth Group . . .
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Well Done: Legacy vs. Loyalty
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When They Confess
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We’re Awkward So They Don’t Have to Be
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SUVs and Youth Ministry
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Inviting the Outsider In
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Youth Ministry in One Word
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Show and Tell: Remove Students’ Crippling Fear of Sharing the Gospel
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Exterminate the Cliques Infesting Your Ministry
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Cancel Youth Group This Week—for the Good of Your Students
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Good News Sharers: Giving Students a Language for Evangelism and Disciple-Making
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Boost Your Students’ Self-Confidence
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Why I Almost Stopped Doing Short-term Mission Trips—But Didn’t
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Youth Worker or Dancing Bear?
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3 Ways to Make Sure Students Never Take Your Advice
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Consistency: The Knot that Ties Everything Together
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Does the Youth Room Matter?
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Equip Your Seniors for the College Transition with This Simple Idea
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Give Students a Voice without Losing Control of Discussion
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Lead Students through Hard Questions without Losing Your Cool
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You and Your God: Uncovering and Responding to a Student’s Sexual Abuse
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The Toughest Question a Student Ever Asked (Part 2)
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The Toughest Question a Student Ever Asked (Part 1)
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Train Your Volunteers without Adding Another Meeting
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6 Resolutions for the New (Student Ministry) Year
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Permission to Fail
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A Season to Smile
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4 Excuses that Keep Us from Teaching like Jesus
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One Vital Question
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When Can I Innovate?
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A Mile in Your Students’ Shoes
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It Takes Time (Part 1)
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Navigating Emotional Triangles
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Beyond Storytelling
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A Famine of Friendships
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6 Questions that Kill Discussion
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6 Tricks to Get Students Talking
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‘Clearing the Mechanism’ in Ministry
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Our Forgotten Mission Field
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Free to Dream
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What Outcomes Do You Want For Your Youth Leadership Programs?
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12 MINISTRY HABITS TO KEEP YOU SANE (PART 2)
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12 Ministry Habits to Keep You Sane (Part 1)
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Youth Abuse Awareness Training Shockingly Low
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5 Questions to Gauge Leadership Capacity
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The Artist’s Tango
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Sheepdog Syndrome
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Salvaging Accountability
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Discipleship Vs. Leadership Development
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Helping Students Plug In by Aaron Kirkpatrick
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When is a youth worker too old to be effective?
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What Every Church Should Know About Student Leadership Development
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A Long-Term View of Student Ministry
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Questions to Ask When You’ve Grown Stagnant
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Would You Have Survived?
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The Small Demonstrations of Disloyalty
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