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  • Your Role in Discipleship

    Helping students to grow on their own—beyond programs and a primary motivator.

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  • 3 Small Group Tools to Get Students Talking

    Simple tools to foster an environment where students will feel noticed and heard.

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  • Improving Your Stage Presence

    Five tips to planning and executing up-front moments with excellence.

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  • Developing Student Discipleship

    Four ways to be part of the discipleship process in the lives of students.

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  • You Have Everything You Need to be Used by God

    Let youth ministry veteran Tic Long speak words of affirmation and encouragement over your leaders.

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  • Ministry to Each Kid

    The value of a ministry focused on each kid, not the whole group.

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  • Go To Where the Kids Are

    Showing up in the lives of students…outside the walls of the church.

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  • Protecting Kids...From God?

    Redefining safety in our ministries

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  • Take Them Seriously

    Four groups of people we ought to take seriously and practical thoughts on how to do so.

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  • How Prayer Changes Us

    How we can play a role in stewarding the development of teenage brains for a lifetime of vibrant and active faith.

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  • Modeling a Lifestyle of Evangelism

    How to lead by example when it comes to engaging in to gospel conversations.

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  • Setting the Environment for a Successful Youth Ministry Program

    Being intentional about engaging with students before and after programs.

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  • Intergenerational Ministry and Sticky Faith

    3 steps to fostering relationships between young people and adults in the church body to help students develop a faith that lasts beyond high school.

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  • The Power of Listening

    Learning to hear the heart beyond the tone of the words.

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  • Valuing Parents' Time

    Josh Griffin shares 5 practical tips for caring for parents as you disciple their kids.

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  • Rephrasing 5 Common Questions Students Ask

    Sometimes asking questions is better than providing answers.

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  • The Youth Ministry Slump

    Josh Griffin shares three things to remember during any youth ministry slump—to help us band together and come out stronger and more passionate instead of beat-down and worn out.

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  • What Will They Remember

    Doug Fields shares three suggestions for how we might care for students in a way that will model God’s character and make a memorable impact.

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  • Mastering 3 Types Of Conversations With Teenagers

    Great conversations are essential to building community and developing relationships.

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  • A Simple Way To Impact A Teenagers Life

    The power of our words can shape a student's life.

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  • Youth Leaders Show Up

    In this quick, 10-minute training, Josh Griffin shares a few tips to help each of us show up well in the lives of our students.

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  • The Power Of Encouraging Words

    “If encouragement is food for their souls, most teenagers are starving.”

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  • Helping Students Embrace And Discover Who God Created Them To Be

    Heather Flies gives 4 easy-to-remember steps to help each of us identify and call out a student’s individual gifting so we might better help each student discover and embrace who God created them to be.

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  • Understanding How Teenagers Learn

    Mark Oestreicher, a trusted, veteran voice in the world of youth ministry, depicts the Cycle of Learning and highlights the steps we, as leaders, should pay closest attention to.

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  • When Leaders Make Mistakes

    Self-proclaimed “Youth Ministry Mistake Making Expert” Josh Griffin shares his ideas to help correct, and then move on from, a youth ministry mistake.

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  • What Doesn't Change In Youth Ministry

    Challenged and encourage your leaders to stay focused on those things that will remain the same regardless of what's happening in the world.

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  • Reading The Bible With Students

    Author and professor Crystal Kirgiss offers three levels at which students can engage with the Bible and easy steps leaders can take to help them dive deeper.

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  • Moving Teenagers From Sitting To Serving

    Doug Fields invites us to rewrite our definition of leadership to open the door for every student to embrace their unique leadership abilities and step into active ministry roles.

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  • Infuse L.I.F.E. Into Your Ministry

    Each moment that we interact with students is a potential God moment.

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  • Identifying And Developing Student Leaders

    LeaderTreks President, Doug Franklin, gives practical training for your leaders to help students move from simply participating to leading in your ministry.

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  • How To Speak So Kids Will Listen

    Duffy Robbins, one of the best communicators in youth ministry, shares practical tips to overcoming the three obstacles that leaders face as they communicate with students.

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  • Four Ways To Partner With Parents

    Josh Griffin offers wisdom and encouragement on one of the most important—and often the most easily overlooked—areas of youth ministry: partnering with parents.

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  • Four Powerful Voices In The Life Of A Student

    Brian Berry, a 22-year veteran youth worker, author, and trainer for Youth Specialties, shares the four voices he thinks all students need spoken by leaders that care for them.

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  • Encouragement For The Heart Of A Youth Worker

    Inspire your leaders from what Paul wrote to Timothy while he was in the “trenches” of his ministry.

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  • Caring For Students

    Doug Fields teaches leaders to consider 3 very important questions as they disciple, lead small groups and mentor teenagers.

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  • Called To Youth Ministry

    A reminder that this ministry is not ours—we are not the one creating life-change—it’s God’s Power through us.

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  • Allowing Youth Ministry To Get Messy

    Use this training to teach your leaders how we can reinforce that the church is the place to run to when they are seeking true grace and acceptance.

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  • 10 Tips For Being A Volunteer At A Camp Or Special Event

    Help your leaders maximize every minute God has gifted them with the students He chooses for your next trip.

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  • 5 Tips For Teaching In Youth Ministry

    Terry Linhart, a youth ministry professor and youth pastor veteran, shares the 5 tips we as leaders ought to consider as we prepare to communicate with students.

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  • Youth Ministry Isn't Baseball

    Youth ministry isn’t about winners and losers, it’s about faithfulness. An important challenge for any time of the year.

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