Episode 80 of The Student Ministry Podcast features a conversation with Dan Navarra around youth pastor compensation. For the last 5 years, Dan has been providing amazing research around salary, benefits, and all things compensation within the world of student ministry. Dan does ministry coaching through Chemistry Staffing and has also recently begun a new … Continue reading Youth Pastor Compensation Update with Dan Navarra (The Student Ministry Podcast – Episode 80)
Young Life with P.T. Smith (The Student Ministry Podcast – Episode 79)
Episode 79 of The Student Ministry Podcast features a conversation with P.T. Smith, who is on staff with Young Life in the Denver, Colorado, area. Not only does P.T. share some of his incredible story, he also explains the ministry of Young Life and some ways you can partner with them in your area, and … Continue reading Young Life with P.T. Smith (The Student Ministry Podcast – Episode 79)
Discipling Your Team
I've written a few blogs over the years about forming, developing, equipping, empowering, and training your team. I've even talked about recruiting and growing your team. All of this is good, but I wanted to bring up something many of us within the church unfortunately leave out of the plan—discipleship. Some of you are wincing … Continue reading Discipling Your Team
Equipping and Empowering Your Team
One of the most important things we are called to do is pull others into ministry, equip them, and empower them to be used by God. The truth, though, is that we have limited bandwidth. So we need to rethink our organizational structure to add more voices and high capacity people. Then we need to … Continue reading Equipping and Empowering Your Team
Valleys Over Mountains with Tom Bump (The Student Ministry Podcast – Episode 78)
Episode 78 of The Student Ministry Podcast features a conversation with Tom Bump, founder of Restoring Leaders. Tom has many years of ministry experience within kids ministry, student ministry, and more. His organization is designed to help and restore ministry leaders who find themselves in especially hard seasons. In fact, that is also the topic … Continue reading Valleys Over Mountains with Tom Bump (The Student Ministry Podcast – Episode 78)
Importance of Serving with Marc Therrien (The Student Ministry Podcast – Episode 77)
Episode 77 of The Student Ministry Podcast features a conversation with Marc Therrien of workcampNE. Much of Marc's growth is connected to faith in action, which is why he now serves as one of workcampNE's directors. Through environments focused on home repair and the Bible, their team allows you, the youth leaders, to focus on … Continue reading Importance of Serving with Marc Therrien (The Student Ministry Podcast – Episode 77)
Every Student Sent with John Decker (The Student Ministry Podcast – Episode 76)
Episode 76 of The Student Ministry Podcast features a conversation with John Decker of Every Student Sent, a unique community-based platform with vision of connecting students to existing ministries, churches, and each other in order to propel them towards Gospel-centered mission as they navigate and engage culture during college. In this episode, we'll hear John's … Continue reading Every Student Sent with John Decker (The Student Ministry Podcast – Episode 76)
Realizing More that I Cannot Do this Alone
Below is an excerpt of an article I wrote for the National Network of Youth Ministries' blog. Click the link at the bottom to read the entire piece. What if we did not do youth ministry alone? Yes, we need to network with other youth workers. It should not stop there, though. We should also network … Continue reading Realizing More that I Cannot Do this Alone
Navigating Uncertainty with Dr. Josh Packard (The Student Ministry Podcast – Episode 75)
Episode 75 of The Student Ministry Podcast features a conversation with Dr. Josh Packard, the Executive Director at Springtide Research Institute. He and his team conduct qualitative and quantitative research on the inner and outer lives of young people, ages 13-25. Recently, they released The State of Religion and Young People 2021: Navigating Uncertainty, a compilation of their … Continue reading Navigating Uncertainty with Dr. Josh Packard (The Student Ministry Podcast – Episode 75)
Reflections from the Fan Expo Denver 2021
Below is an excerpt of an article I wrote for LoveThyNerd. Click the link at the bottom to read the entire piece. The last 18 months have torn us apart in many ways. At this point, we all know how much the COVID pandemic separated us, forcing us to remain socially distant. On top of that, … Continue reading Reflections from the Fan Expo Denver 2021
