Last week I took a call from a youth pastor in the greater Portland area who, for lack of a better word, was very frustrated with his church’s decision to cut one of his fellow youth pastors from a full-time position to a quarter-time position. Although frustrated this particular youth worker accepted the reason for [...]
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Youth Ministry & the Departing Youth Worker
Posted: 30th April 2009 by Chris in Consulting, Just a thought, Leadership, Youth MinistryI don’t think I am an alarmist. The word ‘departing’ in the title of this post may appear that I am but to me, the word ‘vanishing’ was to excessive. Another word that came to mind was ‘deserting’ and that just didn’t seem fair.
At any rate, today I got news via a friend’s email that [...]
When I Wore A Younger Man’s Clothes**
Posted: 19th May 2008 by Chris in Just a thought, Youth MinistryA couple of weeks ago I was in Calgary hanging out with Matt Wilks and Wayne Smele. Matt works with me at Youthfront and Wayne is the Pastor of Student Ministries at Centre Street Church. Wayne also teaches Youth Ministry at Rocky Mountain College.
I was a guest in one of Wayne’s classes. [...]
I was invited to speak to a small group of youth workers today in the Chicago area. It was very cool — great conversation, great food and great people. The combination of those three things always provides me with a time well spent.
I’ve been attending youth worker luncheons for about 14 years [...]
In the last chapter of my book, A New Kind of Youth Ministry, I make an attempt at trying to help the reader get a start on the process of re-culturing their ministry or leading change. Some have wished I would have done more to outline the components of the re-culturing process and others [...]
When I am not working out of my office in Kansas City, I am usually at a coffee shop near my house in Geneva, IL so I can get free WI-FI, take some calls and get some work done. I am sure you do this at times as well — it is very common among [...]