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The podcast currently has 13 episodes available.
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March 19, 2020Episode 2.1: Youth Ministry Goes Online This has been a shocking few weeks for the global community. The spread of COVID-19, and our attempts to slow it down, have created huge change in our own lives, and the lives of our youth.However, we’re convinced this challenge presents huge opportunities. That’s what we’re talking about now on YM:SC, how to leverage this new reality.And this episode is all about the basic tools of youth ministry online, and a bunch of tips about how to make the most of videoconferencing for youth group.We mention a few videoconferencing platforms:www.zoom.uswww.skype.comand of course…www.downloadyouthministry.com...more November 15, 2018Season 2 Promo & NYWC!!! Many of us are arriving at NYWC today. It’s a good time for a check-in!
Contact me if you’re going to be around, I’d love to say hello!
[email protected]
And if you don’t know what NYWC is, check out www.nywc.com It’s the biggest gathering of youth workers in the USA, and it’s almost always encouraging and energizing.
And next season? Yeah, we’re talking about growth. It’s nerve-wracking, and it’s often talked about poorly. But we’re going to talk about it well, and give you lots of helpful tools. Keep an eye out!...more August 14, 2018Episode 1.10: Fundraising & Budgeting Systems We youth leaders understand frugality, especially in small churches. But how do you know when you're being frugal, and when you're just underfunding your youth program?
Further, how do we get our church to help pay for the youth program?
Today's guest, Glen Guyton, has GREAT advice on these topics and more. As someone who spent years in youth ministry, he's got lots of experience. As an added bonus, he's currently the Executive Director for the Mennonite Church USA. So he's got lots of perspective to share!
We mentioned a bunch of books:
Sustainable Youth Ministry, by Mark DeVriesSmaller(er) Church Youth Ministry, by Brad Fiscus and Stephanie Caro
Sticky Faith, from the Fuller Youth Institute
Growing Young, also from the Fuller Youth Institute...more April 11, 2018Episode 1.9: Volunteer Systems Recruiting volunteers, and supporting volunteers, are some of the most difficult things we do in youth ministry. This is particularly true in small churches. The dynamics of many small churches can make it hard to recruit.At the same time, volunteer care is one of the most important things we do. Volunteer recruitment is absolutely necessary.This episode is a quick survey of concrete systems to recruit and support your volunteers.Also: on the Youth Ministry: Small Church website for this post, you'll find a download to a sample volunteer packet Stephen used a year ago....more April 03, 2018Episode 1.8: Systems for Communication Do you ever feel like you have to communicate in 16 different ways to be heard by everyone? Or do you feel like people often complain they don't know what's going on in the youth program? Communication takes a lot of time for youth workers, but it's very important. Figuring out what communication your youth group needs is an important part of being an effective youth worker.This episode gives some concrete advice on how to do that well. Our interview with Seth Muse helps us think through that strategy in a broader way.And finally, we check in with Patricia Cogles at the end of the episode, who we last heard from in Episode 2. She talks about her need for self-care, and the impact Parkland has had in her youth group....more March 27, 2018Episode 1.7: Teaching Tips from Middle School Teachers This is our final episode in our mini-series on teaching well. This first season is dedicated to the basics of youth ministry, and we're doing 3 episodes on teaching well!This episode features Jen Jacques, a Middle School teacher with a lot of experience in youth ministry. She brings us a lot of insights into teaching well from real life teachers. As you can imagine, middle school teachers spend a great deal of time learning to teach well. Jen is no different, so she can be helpful to youth workers....more March 20, 2018Episode 1.6: Curriculum is Your Best Friend In the second episode of our mini-series on teaching well, Jen Bradbury talks about using curriculum well. She wrote a fantastic series of blog posts, filled with concrete ideas. You've got to read them!It takes time to find curriculum that you are comfortable working with. Jen talks about why that is time well spent....more March 13, 2018Episode 1.5: Teaching Well This episode starts a series on teaching more effectively. For many of us, teaching is one of the most intimidating parts of being a youth leader. That’s understandable. This episode, and the next episodes, are designed to help you improve as a teacher.We interview Terry Linhart today, who has been training youth leaders for decades. He’s got a pile of great tips.Head's up: Terry was using satellite internet in the middle of a blizzard, so there are a few small audio problems....more March 06, 2018Episode 1.4: Rebooting a Youth Program There often comes a time in the life of a church in which a major ministry needs to be restarted from scratch.Like a youth program.In this episode, we talk about how to do that well. How do we find the important people to bring in?More than that...what do we do? Small churches have the ability to do all sorts of interesting work in communities. Because of how nimble small churches are, they get some options that larger churches have difficulty accessing.This episode, we interview Carl Dodd, and check in again with Amanda Kan.Carl has been helping churches figure out how to reach out to the youth in their community for years, both in the USA and the UK. He's got a ton of helpful tips on rebooting a youth program.Amanda's doing well! She's got community developing in her youth group, parents are learning to trust her...and they're sharing the love of Jesus with adults in the community. Awesome!OH. But I said in the episode I spoke to Amanda 6 weeks ago in real life. That's wrong. It was closer to three months....more February 27, 2018Episode 1.3: Good Foundations This episode, we interview Brad Fiscus, who oversees young people's ministries for the Tennessee Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. Or to put it another way: it's his job to help small church youth workers lead effective youth ministries. He talks about basic systems we need, and basic principles of healthy youth programs.
He's also the author of Small(er) Church Youth Ministry: No Staff, No Money, No Problem, along with Stephanie Caro of Ministry Architects. If you found his interview helpful, the book is packed full of similar insights.
Now, you could click the Amazon link and buy this book (which should be one of the first books any of us read on Youth Ministry), but why not get it for free instead? Tag us on Instagram or Facebook, and we'll send you a free copy of the book. At least, we'll do that for the first three people to tag us!
Show Notes:We didn't talk about a ton of resources this episode, except for Brad & Stephanie's book.
Brad listed off a few resources he assigns to his cohorts. He assigns:
His own book, and Sustainable Youth Ministry by Mark DeVries, like we do in almost every episode. Mark runs Ministry Architects, where Stephanie Caro also works. Stephanie Caro, of course, helped Brad write Small(er) Church Youth Ministry.He also uses the Sticky Faith resources, which we've mentioned before. Sticky Faith is an entire research project with lots of resources, but the basic book can be found here. However, look for the Fuller Youth Institute's blog and other books.
Brad can be reached at [email protected]...more
FAQs about Youth Ministry: Small Church:
How many episodes does Youth Ministry: Small Church have?
The podcast currently has 13 episodes available.