Management

A Shield about You By Ginny Olson

On the importance of contracts, permission slips, insurance, copyrights, hiring practices, relationships with staff and students—and other basic concepts calling for careful, thoughtful standards in youth ministry.
Managing Confidentiality By Syler Thomas

Helpful insights for walking the fine line between keeping things kids tell you confidential and intervening.
Managing Favoritism By Syler Thomas

It's easy to gravitate to kids like us, or just kids we like, but as ministers of the gospel, we need to be careful about how we spend our time.
Managing It the Next Time: When Your First Time Stinks By Syler Thomas

"Our goal should be to make these events better, not just replicate them year after year. And along with successes naturally come mistakes. You've got to be able to learn from your mistakes, not simply repeat them."
Managing Manipulation By Syler Thomas

"If all Jesus was interested in from his disciples was a decision for Christ, they could've kept their day jobs. Rather, he asked them to follow him for three years and learn from him how to live a life of abundance in the service of the Kingdom of God. We cannot let manipulative stories be a substitute for a call to a lifetime of making a decision for Jesus every single day."
Managing Newcomers By Mike Woodruff and Syler Thomas

Make sure visitors to your group feel comfortable enough to return.
Managing the Reluctant By Syler Thomas

What do you do with students who don't want to be there?
Managing To Be Nice By Mike Woodruff

In our attempts to challenge kids to deeper levels of Christian discipleship, we often find ourselves rewarding the wrong things. Students need to feel loved and accepted, and we need to steer them from a concept of works righteousness to a grace orientation.
Managing Worship By Syler Thomas

Singing as part of teen worship can be a powerful experience, but can there be too much of a good thing?
Managing Your Enemies By Syler Thomas

A few tips on how to navigate difficult people at church.
Managing Your Time By Mike Woodruff

"The principles of being organized are not hard to learn, they're just hard to do. But if you're disciplined in applying them, life does get better."
The Paperchase By Michael Woodruff

Your office is a tornado of notes, spread sheets, and mail. Short of renting a bulldozer, what's a right-brained, creative, people-type person supposed to do?