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Cultivating Curiosity is a discipline we all need to do. My hope is to explore faith, leadership, and the power of story in our lives. Have a look around and please join in the conversation.
Identifying New Leaders
Bringing new people on your team is an essential skill to leadership. New staff members bring incredible opportunity to refresh vision, raise team morale, and increase the momentum of your ministry. The problem is the great difficulty in finding the right person. When identifying potential new people for my team, I ask 3 questions: Are...
Job Opening in HSM
We are in an incredible season at Mariners Church. As we have reflected on our twenty years as a church, we are preparing for the next twenty by intentionally developing the next generation of leaders. This means we are working extremely hard to create a ministry family that is passionate about the work of the...
Starting Right
There is very little more awesome to a youth pastor than the moment a former student reaches out looking for advice because they are starting a youth ministry internship. Here is what I said to a student just a couple days ago: 1. Be a servant. Your leadership will grow immensely if you show...
Love Your Work
Good work provides deep meaning to your life. Ministry is overloaded with programs, events, tasks, conflict, text messages, football games, parent phone calls, and the exhausting list goes on. The tendency for most youth pastors is to “empower” their volunteers to do the work of the ministry. But do your teams find meaning in the...
Are You The Next Lance Armstrong?
7 Tour de France Titles. An Olympic Bronze medal. A platform larger than any cyclist in history. Gone. Lance Armstrong is an incredible athlete born to compete. His natural talent, physiology, and competitive drive got him to the top of his sport. But the recent doping accusations could take all that away. This is a...
The Thinking Audience
When was the last time you were truly effective in front of an audience? For some of you it is every single week, you have figured out some amazing secret to communication that you need to share with the rest of us. But my guess is the vast majority of us struggle every week to...
Creating a Successful Small Group Ministry
You mean I don’t just make a flier, put some kids in a group, and let the magic happen? For whatever reason, small groups have become a burden to youth pastors. We know that we are supposed to offer them, parents expect them, and something in our ministry would be missing with out them. As...
Power Defines Character
“Careful with these jet skis, they have more power than most people understand,” a leader told one of our staff members on a junior high summer camp. “Please refrain from the temptation to ride alongside another watercraft and splash them with your wake.” You and I both know that a jet ski gets old pretty...