Five Minutes with Marko

Five Minutes with Marko

By Mark OestreicherReligion & Spirituality
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Five Minutes with Marko episodes

  • The 12-Year-Old Loser

    Marko reflects on a comment from a youth worker that there’s no such thing as a 12-year-old loser.

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    7 min
  • Why You Need a Team

    As much as we’d like to think that developing an adult team for youth ministry might be a universal practice, Marko finds it’s still WAY too common for youth workers to be lone rangers.

    6 min
  • When to Leave

    Marko responds to a question he’s asked all the time: How do I know when it’s time to leave my youth ministry role?

    7 min
  • An Open Letter to a 14-Year-Old Girl

    Marko was asked to write a letter to the daughter of a friend. He shares this letter both as an encouragement to you, and a reminder of what we should be speaking into the lives of teens.

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    5 min
  • Is Youth Ministry Biblical?

    This question was louder 15 years ago; but there’s still some lingering pushback on any and all age-specific ministry in churches. Marko shares where this question came from, and responds to it.

    8 min
  • When to Separate MS and HS

    Marko’s thinking on this question has shifted quite a bit on this question over his many years in youth ministry — in some ways, the answer is clearer than ever, and in other ways, it’s much more blurry.

    To learn more about Marko's coaching program, visit https://www.theyouthcartel.com/the-youth-ministry-coaching-program.

    6 min
  • Young Adult Youth Ministry Volunteers

    Neuroscience tells us that young adult brains aren’t yet fully developed when it comes to decision making and wisdom. Does that mean we should boundary them more as volunteers in youth ministry, or maybe just the opposite?

    8 min
  • When God Seems Distant

    This episode is a little longer and a lot more devotional. Marko offers six suggestions for those inevitable times when it feels that God is silent or distant.

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    9 min
  • What Volunteers Need from Youth Pastors, part 2

    Marko speaks from his decades of experience as a youth ministry volunteer at his church, about what he (and other volunteers) need from the ministry point person.

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    6 min

About Five Minutes with Marko

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5 Minutes with Marko might be the shortest youth ministry podcast ever; but that doesn’t mean it’s shallow. Marko (Mark Oestreicher, of The Youth Cartel) gets right to the point, sharing thoughts…