2007-11-24T12:52:31-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/junior+high/ http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=260&art_id=102 2007-11-24T12:52:31-05:00 Three veteran youth ministers share their best seasoned advice. http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=180&art_id=50 2007-11-24T12:04:16-05:00 Dr. Al Millergren and Paul Evans give hints for making your youth ministry room more inviting for teens. http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=160&art_id=44 2007-11-24T09:32:08-05:00 Tommy Carrington directs Reach Out's Urban Ministry training and works with inner city teens in Miami. In this article, those who love students and love God will be encouraged that they can impact the inner city with resources they already have. http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=150&art_id=137 2007-11-24T09:29:04-05:00 Too many youth ministers miss out on an incredible source of youth ministry wisdom and ideas - their own volunteers and youth. Not only can their ideas revolutionize our ministries, but by taking them seriously we take their leadership to a new level, allowing them to feel ownership and responsibili http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=150&art_id=121 2007-11-24T09:26:56-05:00 This plan gives you a way to organize your teaching and training by dividing everything you want to instill in your students into seven Growth Zones. A great strategy to help you develop a long-range plan and make everything you do have a purpose. http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=150&art_id=42 2007-11-24T09:25:05-05:00 While many people assume that Student Impact at Willow Creek draws over 1000 students into their ministry primarily through a spectacular program that few other churches could pull off, Bo Boshers insists that their success is due more to their programming values. Any size ministry can use them. http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=140&art_id=65 2007-11-24T09:21:29-05:00 What works to build community in one group won't necessarily work in another. Dave Livermore shows us some models that are working in various cultures. http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=140&art_id=129 2007-11-24T09:19:21-05:00 I sent a weird-looking student into a youth group that was reportedly big on friendliness to see what would happen. The result gives us insight into building friendliness in our own groups. http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=100&art_id=119 2007-11-24T08:10:45-05:00 Ideas on building a site from Reach Out's Webmaster. http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=70&art_id=141 2007-11-23T09:33:39-05:00 Eighteen practical ideas on finding the optimum style(s)of worship, varying the intensity, knowing your group and controlling distractions.