Our theme this month is about Prioritizing our physical health in ministry. This comes during the Easter season in which we celebrate new life, so we thought we would talk about possible new priorities. In youth ministry it can be difficult to prioritize our physical health with the late nights, pizza, Mountain Dews..etc.

We asked Jacob to sit with us today to share about his personal journey in prioritizing his health along with some practical tips we can apply today if we choose.

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Serve Local with YouthWorks

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Book Mentioned

Inside the Box

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Building the best team is essential to any successful vision. It's especially true when volunteers are needed. Recruiting volunteers is often a top need, but requires the most energy from us as it is not our favorite part of ministry. 

In this conversation with Jon Brown, we discuss practical steps to implement a recruiting strategy for building the best volunteer ministry team. Jon has over 20+ years of vocational ministry many of them at the same church!

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@pjon

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Books Mentioned

Chasing Vines

The Slight Edge

Hero Maker

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Our theme this month is Building Better Teams. This is key to creating culture, carrying out the vision of the ministry, and impacting our community. Not only is this an important aspect to focus on for staff hires but also for volunteers as well. Maggie and Boss have a chat about leading with both genders.

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Our theme this month is Light in the Darkness. We are focusing on mental health within youth ministry. Not just students, but us as leaders. The winter months can be difficult as seasonal depression is on the rise, we are still currently in a pandemic, some of our jobs security is uncertain, and a list of other stressors in life affect us daily. Today we talk with Lenia Queen about how mental health and our faith journey connect, the impact of mental health within the Black community, and practical steps we can take to cope productively.

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@leniaslovenotes

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Season 3 is HERE! We are back with an exciting season of Free Refills. 

Today's episode you will meet the voices behind the mics. Boss sits with Dusty, Nick, Maggie, and Orlando as they share what God has placed on their heart for this coming year. 

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Boss Hogge

Dusty Bratzler

Nick Damonte

Maggie Johnson

Orlando Hale

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Here we are, it's 2021, and not much has changed. Is it another year, yes. Is it odd to say 2021, yes. You know what it isn't different: our mission. It has not reset, it has not quit. it has not stalled. It is the same today as it was in 2020: to reach EVERY student in our community with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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2020 has been a ride, to say the least. It wasn’t what any of us expected or planned. Our 2020 vision campaigns wound up being so blurry on what actually happened. However, God was and is not surprised by this. He is still working; he never stopped. When we allow ourselves to let go of what we hoped to happen and see where God has us planted right now, the opportunities will arise.  

We invited AJ Gonzalez and Lynn Ault to share about their perspective and realities of this year as they led in ambiguity.  

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@ajgonzaleziv  

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A heart of gratitude and thanksgiving changes our leadership. It is something we strive to have but uncertain times can create our heart to want more than we have. This is turn impacts the way we lead in every aspect of life.   Steve Cullum sits with us to discuss how he has established a rhythm to be grateful daily.  

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The Student Ministry Podcast

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Secondary discipleship is the reality of people discipling people after they have been discipled. When we get down to it, it's simply discipleship as it was intended.   Our returning guest today, Mike Hickerson, has made an effort at applying this within his church community and helping other churches implement it into their culture.

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Secondary discipleship is the reality of people discipling people after they have been discipled. When we get down to it, it's simply discipleship as it was intended. 

Our guest today, Reverend Jonathan Z Queen, has made this the foundation of ministry his entire ministry life. 

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1 of Them

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