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Confessions of an Average Youth Minister

Dance

This Wednesday I had one of those activities that scares me. All day long I wanted God to tell me not to do it, but instead I felt like it was something we should do. The overarching theme of last week was the metaphor of dance...

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Tactile Worship

I have been thinking this week about ways to offer "hands on" worship experience without having it be a big production. Tomorrow night I have 2 plans to help worship be about touching as well as singing. 1) Students a...

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Youth Worship Ideas

I have been noticing people finding this collection of ideas when they are searching for Youth Worship Ideas. I felt bad because there aren’t really that many ideas here. So I want to first invite you to check out www.nai...

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Experiential Worship Ideas

Here is a simple journaling exercise that you can add to any worship gathering to add some an experiential element. It can be used with any size group with as little pre-work as getting pens and paper for everyone. Alphabet Pra...

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To me Jesus is…

This is pretty simple, but I will throw it out here for you. Pass out index cards and pens to each person in your group. Instruct students to complete the following sentence on their card “to me Jesus is…” You may want to...

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About Me

I don’t have all of the answers and some weeks it feels like I don’t have any of the answers. I forget students names sometimes and say stupid things that hurt their feelings. I often find a good word picture or object lesson and build the lesson off of that instead of the other way around. I have put the finishing touches on a Wednesday night Bible study on Wednesday more times than I can count. I don’t always pray as much as I should and I never study as much as I should. I try every new youth ministry model that comes from the “experts” and I have had at least 3 mission statements over the past 5 years.

But I love students ministry. I love watching teenagers as they serve God. I love to see them worship and forget about themselves for a while. I love seeing someone wake up to the love of God if only for a little while. I love to see them out serving their community and sharing the love of Christ with others. I love to be a part of their lives and I love seeing the world through their eyes. Like I said, I’m an average youth pastor.

About Nailscars.com

For over 10 years now I have been trying to add creative ideas for use in the local church. In the early days Nailscars.com was just a place to publish some scripts, but it has become a collection of creative ministry resources for youth ministry and worship.

I began writing a blog more to process my own thoughts more than anything else. As I started writing the comments that I got back from people amazed me. As I was honest with my struggles most of them would write and say “Thank you.” “It is just nice to know someone else struggles with these same things,” was a common response.

So this has become a place where I share the struggles and successes of being in youth ministry. I hope that you find something that God can use in your life and ministry.

Dance

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To me Jesus is…

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