Girl’s Ministry/Married to a Pastor Workshops
Northwest Ministries Conference- Seattle
April 8-9
Keeping the Marriage Alive
MOPS- Seattle
May 10th
Student Leadership Conference
Azusa Pacific University- July 5-8
Neely McQueen has been working with teen girls for over 15 years. She is also married to a pastor and the mom of 3 cute kids. Follow her on twitter.
(WARNING: there’s some language in this video!)
So many possible application for this video in youth ministry! This weekend I played a clip (just the shooting part near the end) of this video during the service to illustrate how fast news travels nowadays. I made a comparison to how the Good News of Jesus traveled, without the aid of technology, through the world in the book of Acts. Made for a great pause/illustration in the middle of the talk!
JG
Hi my name is Matt Murphy and along with Brad Widstrom, wrote 99 Thoughts for Caring for Your Youth Group. Below are insights into our book writing process and how everything came about. Our hope in this is that you would be able to see our hearts behind our NEW Book 99 Thoughts on Caring for Your Youth Group. If you have questions my contact info is at the bottom. I will also be at the Simply Youth Ministry Conference in Louisville, KY this year, probably around the books, so if you see me stop by and say hi!
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Why 99 Thoughts for Caring?
- I chose to write a book about helping youth workers care about their youth group from A to Z because it is a huge part of my passion and calling. Coming from the Social Work field, my perspectives on caring, not only in the technical aspects of caring, but how to do certain types of caring, such as hospital visits, jail visits or coffee shop counseling helped me choose to put together this book. My suggestion to anyone wanting to write anything is to do it from a place where they are both passionate about and have some form of experience of doing it, that way you can talk about both angles? as in Head and Heart knowledge (or wisdom).
How did this become a collaborative project?
- When [...]
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I wasn’t intending to write a blog post right now. But just had an interaction that made me want to jot some things down? (If you can see a parallel between middle schoolers and senior citizens, this post might make sense.)
I got in early this morning, needing to crank through some things before anyone else gets to the office. I flipped on my computer, and went to empty my overflowing trash can before attacking my day. Walking back to my office, I ran into a 70-year-old volunteer from our church who helps do cleaning stuff around here, early in the mornings. (In my opinion, jr. highers and senior citizens can both be a bit ?invisible? to people if they?re not careful!)
When I said ?how are you doing? to this guy (not realizing he was really going to tell me!), he proceeded to fill me in about the stroke he had last year, and how he?s recovering from it. I was aware that I really wanted to get to my office & dig into the stuff I need to get done today? but I tried to dial in with him? it only took 5 minutes. Honestly though, I was probably half-listening, and half thinking of my ?to-do? list for the day. He told me about how his left side was paralyzed last May, but now he?s doing better.
As I wished him a good day & started to leave, he said 5 words that made me pause: ?Thanks for [...]
Mission trips can be very heavy on logistics. Where you go. Where you stay. Who you serve. How you serve them. What you eat. How you get there. And many more details? Ugh. In the mountain of all that info, it?s easy to miss planning and preparing for what may be the most important thing that will happen on your mission trip.
Your students encountering Jesus in new and powerful ways.Let?s quickly make sure we agree on a few things (I?m sure we do, just double-checking):
OK, do we agree? If so, then?
To get started here?s several questions to ask to help shape the spiritual growthgoals you have in mind as part of your mission experience.
Where are my students and adults at spiritually?
- individually
- the group as a whole
How do the following issues impact your times of worship or spiritual [...]
You are right, there are far more dangerous jobs than youth ministry. I am extremely thankful that my husband does not stare down the barrel of a gun. I cannot imagine the kind of strength a wife would need for that. No matter what the job each one of us, including myself, has and will face great tragedies. Just in each day there are so many ups and downs. Our lives are sprinkled with many different feelings and emotions from happiness to thankfulness, to frustration to sorrow. My hope is that not one of us would deny ourselves the right to feel validated in each and every feeling that we have that gets mixed up inside of us. I hope that in some small way this blog may be a place for someone in ministry to feel heard, connected, and uplifted through a comment, a funny story, or a serious post. And what I love so much about this community of women is the honesty shared about their lives, and the tone that we all take loving God and our husbands seriously but don’t take ourselves too seriously.
I write this in no way with a defensive voice, but with so much concern that many pastor’s wives are told that their feelings are silly or not important. Whether from someone at church or their own inner dialogue. Our “perspective” should be to accept and embrace our feelings whatever they may be and then with God [...]
Help a girl out! I’m working on my third session of my Small Church Youth Ministry track at the upcoming Simply Youth Ministry Conference in Louisville the first weekend of March. Post your ideas in the comments here. My brain is fried and so its time for me to pick yours!
q Jeremiah 1:4 ?The Word of God came to me saying, before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born, I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.?
q God had a vision a plan for you. Do you have one for the assignment He has given you?
q Vision: The picture of God?s potential, purpose, and possibilities for your life.
q Show me a person without vision, and I will show you a person who is at a standstill in life.
q Proverbs 29:18 ?Where there is no vision the people perish.?
q Life Point: The key element to getting out of my present state is the vision that I have for myself.
q Jeremiah 29:11 ?For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope,
Vision Truthsq True vision goes beyond what I can accomplish on my own.
q True vision adds value to others.
q True vision attracts vision.
q True vision must have God in it.
q Acts 2:17 ?And it shall come to pass in the last days says God, I will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and daughters shall prophesy and your young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream dreams.?
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Northwest Ministries Conference- Seattle
April 8-9
Keeping the Marriage Alive
MOPS- Seattle
May 10th
Student Leadership Conference
Azusa Pacific University- July 5-8
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