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Confessions of an Average Youth Minister

Children’s Church: Worship on their level or just a way to keep parents sane?

As a new children’s minister I have spent a lot of time thinking about Children’s Church and all of the implications that go along with it. There will always be questions of when should children be in the sanctuary,...

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Family Prayer Ideas (Prayer Chain)

Our church is getting ready to have a series of meeting that Baptist normally call a “revival.” I’m not a huge fan of that term, and we actually aren’t calling our meetings that either, but that is the...

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Making Your Child “The Star”

As I slowly transition my thinking about student ministry from a silo model (everyone in their own little place) to a more family oriented place one of my greatest fears is that I am feeding over-parenting and students that can...

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Parents: the ultimate youth ministers

“My biggest frustration in youth ministry was that I could never seem to spend enough time with the youth to effect lasting change. The best and the brightest students I had for three or four hours a week. Many of the stu...

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Outposts of God’s Mission

I am reading through Timothy Paul Jones’ book Family Ministry: a field guide and this quote really jumped out at me. The king of family ministry I’m envisioning is a movement towards equipping Christian households t...

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Family Prayer Ideas (Prayer Chain)

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Children’s Church: Worship on their level or just a way to keep parents sane?

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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.

Children’s Church: Worship on their level or just a way to keep parents sane?

Family Prayer Ideas (Prayer Chain)

Making Your Child “The Star”

Parents: the ultimate youth ministers

Outposts of God’s Mission

About Me

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