Are you a shark or a feeder fish? Which one should you be. It may surprise you. BoostBlog author and youth pastor Hayden delivers great insight combining Scripture and Seinfield on how we can best lead.
After 9 Interviews Ben Trueblood Lifeway Student Ministry Director
In this episode of After 9 Zac interviews Ben Trueblood director of Student Ministry for Lifeway. It's a big job but somebody has got to do it. Listen in as your hear Ben share his heart for youth workers and student pastors, his own stories of success and failure, and what it means to evaluate the numbers that really matter. Whether you are a veteran youth pastor or the new kid in town you will sincerely appreciate Ben Trueblood's heart and hopes for youth ministry.
Students Serving Students
Leading Through Challenges
Refueling Yourself for Effective Ministry
How Do I Handle Being Backstabbed In Youth Ministry?
The Lonely Island: How to Lead Your Female Staff
I sum up my calling like this: God opened doors and I walked through them. When I was 18, I was asked to be a small group leader for my church’s junior high ministry. I asked myself, “What the heck is a small group leader, anyway?” After a year of that, the ministry director asked me to intern for her. “Ok? What the heck does an intern do?” A year later she asked me to take over her position as one of the girls’ directors. “Hmmmm….I’m noticing a pattern.” And then, I was asked to interview for the junior high pastor position at one of our off-site campuses. Now, 13 years since my start, I’m still doing what He so purposely called me to do; being a middle school pastor.
I love it (most of the time). If I’m perfectly honest I wrestled with the question, “Are girls allowed to do this?”. Volunteering and interning is one thing, but being the head of my own ministry?
After 9 Interview Of Mike Keahbone Cherokee Hills Baptist Church and Host of The Devo Podcast
How Do I Get The Most Money For My Youth Ministry?
In episode 72 of After 9, Zac and Chad debate the value of fundraising and give you a plan on how to get more budget money for your student ministry. Hear us on this one youth pastor; money, budgets, and fundraising are perennial questions in youth ministry and we don't always get a chance to talk about them honestly as youth workers.
