Hopefully, we’re all on the same page when it comes to having female leaders on our teams. (If not, feel free to email me and we can chat!)

Obviously, I believe there are 1 million reasons to build a team of both guys and gals but here are few things to consider when building your team:

1. The What Can I Become factor. The girls in our ministries need living examples of what their lives can become both in professional and in personal areas of life. Being around an adult woman who shares similar passions for life and career can be a constant encouragement to students that they too can succeed. At the same time, girls need to see women in healthly dating and married relationships to give them the right kind of aspirations and goals for themselves, girls aren’t usually getting these positive messages anywhere else.

2. The Basics of Life factor. A healthly youth ministry addresses the topic of sex but for the most part that conversation is pretty neutral. During these years of junior high or high school, girls are undergoing major changes phyiscally and emotionally. And some girls need to have someone outside of the home to talk with about these issues. I am pretty sure no guys on your team want to handle (nor should they) some of the crazy, honest questions that girls can ask about sex and their bodies!!

3. The You Can’t Handle the Truth factor. Teen girls are emotional beings which can make speaking into their lives a difficult task. Maybe you can relate to this but my youth pastor use to make me cry on a monthly basis and I am sure I was more than he could handle. He was trying to help me grow and encourage my faith but he was speaking to me like I was a boy…and it is just simply different for a girl. We need to hear truth differently especially when the truth is being directed right at us.

Things to ponder about your ministry, do you have enough female leaders on your team? Are your female leaders empowered to speak into the lives of your female students? If not, how can you begin building your team to help all the students in your ministry.