• High School
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• Middle School
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• Teens
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• Youth
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• Student Ministry

Praise and Worship: Training Students to Lead in Worship (Part 2)
Paul directs student worship leaders to understand the proper object of their worship and to understand holiness.
http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=70&art_id=76

Praise and Worship: Training Students to Lead in Worship
In this first part, Paul defines worship and gives three quotes that he uses to help student worship leaders understand worship.
http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=70&art_id=75

Worshipand Praise: How to Lead Students in Worship (Part 3)
In this third part, Paul defines "worship" and deals with practical considerations such as goals, technical considerations and developing the band.
http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=70&art_id=74

Worship: How to Lead Students in Worship (Part 2)
In this second part of his how-to on leading student worship, Paul presents principles 4 and 5 and comments on the "exterior stuff" of worship.
http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=70&art_id=73

Worship: How to Lead Students in Worship (Part 1)
Paul has led small and large youth groups in worship in every imaginable setting for over two decades. In this first part, he introduces himself, presents an overriding principle of leading students, than launches into the first three biblical principles.
http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=70&art_id=72

Embrace the Mess: Why Youth Must Lead Now
It felt like a mutiny. As an official youth group, we were still young – not yet two years old – and our teens were even younger spiritually. Most were new to the congregation and raw street kids without any prior church association. For a while, everything seemed to fall together seamlessly.
http://ymexchange.com/Youth-Ministry-Articles/Embrace-the-Mess-Why-Youth-Must-Lead-Now....

By the Bathroom Mirror: Teenage Girls & Identity
It’s an age old question passed from one generation of men to the next: Why do girls always need to go to the bathroom together? As I female, I can confidently answer that we do this just to annoy you. Well, that’s the not real reason. We really do it because we females are very relational
http://ymexchange.com/Youth-Ministry-Articles/By-the-Bathroom-Mirror-Teenage-Girls-Iden...

Boys to Men: Finding Masculine Identity in Today’s Culture
Little boys, we are told, are made of "snips and snails and puppy dog tails." However, no recipe exists to explain what makes a man, much less how to turn puppy dog tails into a big dog. Each year, boys enter junior high hoping to exit as young men. They search for manhood in band class, debate cl
http://ymexchange.com/Youth-Ministry-Articles/Boys-to-Men-Finding-Masculine-Identity-in...

Youth Ministry Exchange - Growing Up Fat: Identity Crisis
I’ve always been one to stand out in a crowd. Not because I’m beautiful or tall or loud or all that interesting, but because I’m fat. At times, I’ve been the widest person in the room. Of course now that I’ve lost 50 pounds and dropped two clothes sizes, there are generally a few other people who
http://ymexchange.com/Youth-Ministry-Articles/Growing-Up-Fat-Identity-Crisis.html

Overcoming Frustrations in Ministry Begins with God’s Whisper
Is what I’m going to say bold? Maybe. I mean, I’m about to put my heart on a platter for everyone to see by admitting to something that many of us in ministry are afraid to verbalize. So here it goes…I’m frustrated with the condition of many youth ministries in churches today. There. I said it.
http://ymexchange.com/Youth-Ministry-Articles/Overcoming-Frustrations-in-Ministry-Begin...