Tagged: Youth Ministry

Every Time I Cancel Youth … 0

Every Time I Cancel Youth …

I woke up this morning to this. The teens wrapped up my car with plastic wrap and tied fishing line all over the driveway and the house. My kids loved it because all the...

Weekend Wrap-Up 0

Weekend Wrap-Up

As the weekends get busy, I typically don’t post here on the blog. But now that the weekend is over, here is the wrap-up. We had a yard sale on Saturday morning. Jennifer was...

Marketing and Youth Conferences 2

Marketing and Youth Conferences

I’ve got to share a frustration of mine. I have been working in youth ministry now for about 13 years, so I have been to my fair share of youth conferences. Some I have...

Weekend Wrap-Up 0

Weekend Wrap-Up

It was a busy weekend, but worth it as usual. I just wanted to share some of my experiences from the weekend. Saturday night church meeting – we try to get together once a...

Structuring Your Church’s Youth Ministry 2

Structuring Your Church’s Youth Ministry

I’ve been spending some time lately thinking about the youth ministry at Cornerstone. I have been involved with youth ministry about 12 years now, so I have seen several trends come and go. When...

Youth Worship Service at Carroll County 0

Youth Worship Service at Carroll County

This is just a quick post to let all the teens know about the youth worship service at Carroll County High School this Saturday night. This has been student organized and planned, and our...

We Will Not Forget … 1

We Will Not Forget …

April 16th is a date that is etched in many of our minds. Last year at this time, we were packing to go to DisneyWorld when we turned on the news and saw what...

Dealing With Loss 0

Dealing With Loss

This past weekend was extremely rough on our local teens. Two tragedies in one weekend. A student in Carroll County committed suicide and another student in Galax died after battling a heart problem. Most...

Straight Street in Roanoke 0

Straight Street in Roanoke

There is an interesting article in the Roanoke Times today about Straight Street. It is a Christian teen center in Roanoke that has made a huge impact. Check out the article here. They have...

WinterJam 1

WinterJam

I’ve got our kid’s Upward Basketball games in the morning and then I’m headed off to the WinterJam concert with a bunch of our teenagers. It should be fun, although I’m sad that Jenni...

How Not to Be A Fool 0

How Not to Be A Fool

We started a new series last week in youth about making wise choices from the book of Proverbs. Life is full of small decisions that lead to big consequences. Nobody decides to wake up...