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A little less than four years ago Chad Higgins and Zac Workun started a podcast to help youth pastors. The last few weeks have pushed some really exciting developments!
This October Lifeway Christian Resources (Nashville, TN) has acquired Youth Ministry Booster to become its primary training vehicle for coaching and equipping youth ministers nationwide.
This move enables Youth Ministry Booster to become the premier live video environment for youth ministry training, resourcing, and coaching. We are so excited for this continuing collaboration as youth ministers are matched into cohorts of masterminds and sharpening their skills, and getting the support and encouragement of soul care that is so deeply needed!
What Does This Mean?
YMB membership means you now get a whole library more of content! There has never been a better time to join!
New & Upcoming For Youth Ministry Booster in 2020: Community Based Courses
The high quality on-demand videos of Lifeway Students + the live video environment of Youth Ministry Booster means we will now offer in-depth learning with live elements inside of our community!
Every semester we are going to dive deep into the practical life and leadership lessons it takes to run a successful youth ministry. These new community-based interactive courses will rocket your growth as you learn from leading youth ministers, some of the very best of us!
“Funny for how you do, or funny for how you did!”
About the #NYWC19 Youth Ministry Booster Booth
Crown The Funniest Youth Pastor @ YS YMB #Live200
Thanks again for your listenership and support!
What is the future of youth ministry? What hopeful work should we as youth ministers engaged with today?
YS NYWC19 In Tampa
We are going to be there? Are you?
The Youth Ministry Booster team is going to the biggest conference in youth ministry to hang out with all of our YM friends and we can't wait to see you there!
Friday Night Late Night: YMB is the late-night podcast option for all NYWC goers so make your plans now to be a part of the special live recording of episode 200 as we play games, tell stories, interview friends, and give away prizes.
We are also crowning a comedic champion of NYWC so you won't wanna miss that!
About This Episode's Guest
Mark Matlock is one of the leading voices in youth ministry and has deep and storied experience serving youth ministry leaders globally. His most recent work Faith For Exiles co-authored with David Kinnaman is an important read for those reflecting critically on the important work of youth ministry.
Faith For Exiles Book
Show Notes:
1. To have a relationship with Jesus.
2. A healthy and loving family and kids.
3. A sustainable career that they will enjoy.
This is episode 186 and today we give away something really nice...
This is the weekly bonus episode on Friday featuring the voices of members of Youth Ministry Booster's network featuring audio from the real-life coaching calls and discussions that real-life youth ministers are asking and sorting out in our weekly live video call environments.
Learn how you can join Youth Ministry Booster and accelerate your leadership!
NYWC Schedule! We have a booth and a podcast show slot! Don't miss out! Friday night late night has never felt so good! Giveaways, cookies, games, and a chance to be apart of our special episode 200!
Stay boosted!
-zw
Big shoutouts to Kenan Klein and Jen Willard who won free tickets to NYWC19!
Show Notes:
How do we get students involved in the bigger picture of the church?
Is it the lack of structure in our church
or
Is it on us as youth ministry staff?
Is it our fault?
or
Is it their fault?
Does student ministry always have to be seen as a silo ministry?
We often forget to include youth as a part of the planning of our church-wide activities.
The ministry of most churches is doing for students and not doing ministry with students.
“I forget that it is my responsibility to invite students up”
When was the last time you created a structured opportunity for students to connect with adults?
Take the time to teach your congregation to ask students questions. Help them navigate the relationship cues.
"Youth ministry has hurt the church in the ways in which it has not created good relational opportunities for adults and students to connect."
Where are the entry points that adults can connect with the youth of their church?
"Everything changes when you are invested in the life of a student."
Episode 185 is here and it's clear that youth ministry fall season is in full swing!
Kristen and Chad are back for a fun discussion about vegan food fairs and reaching students just outside your door!
Learn how you can join Youth Ministry Booster and accelerate your leadership!
We are going to be @NYWC 2019 this year in Tampa are you?
NYWC Schedule! We have a booth and a podcast show slot! Don't miss out! Friday night late night has never felt so good!
Today’s show is a quick and extra special one!
This is episode 184 and it is something really really nice....
We are celebrating 184 episodes and we are taking this opportunity to share that in a few weeks we will have important and exciting updates regarding Youth Ministry Booster, the podcast, and what is next!
Before we make some big changes, we wanted to offer up some small and important tweaks. We are moving to 2 episodes a week.
1. A weekly episode on Wednesday will be the hosts discussion and interviews of the show you have come to love over these last 4 years!
and
2. A weekly bonus episode on Friday or Monday featuring the voices of members episode of Youth Ministry Booster's network will feature the real-life coaching calls and discussions that real-life youth ministers are asking and sorting out in our weekly live video call environments.
Learn how you can join Youth Ministry Booster and accelerate your leadership!
NYWC19 Ticket Giveaway
NYWC Schedule! We have a booth and a podcast show slot! Don't miss out! Friday night late night has never felt so good!
Stay boosted!
-zw
WE ARE BACK! Episode 183 is a kick-off to a whole new year and season of Youth Ministry Booster (with some big prizes and announcements in the works!)
After much-needed summer rest and reset the podcast is back in full force (weekly) with new content (more episodes and more media!) for you, the hard-working, fun-loving youth minister! So wherever you are while you are listening know that this team of fellow youth ministry leaders is praying for you and hoping that this little bit of humor and insight keep you boosted!
Also this... Our friends at Youth Specialities gave us some tickets to give away!!
Win A Free Ticket To NYWC2019!
Want to go to #YouthMinistry Homecoming? Then enter for a chance to win a free ticket to #NYWC19
Click here to enter!
Key Quotes and Takeaways!
Dr. Andy Root is back y'all! With a new book and summer session on the history, hope, and reimagination of what it means to be a pastoral figure in this new age we are living!
Episode 182 is only the warm-up for the live session. Don't miss it!
Learn more with and from Dr. Andrew Root @ our FREE LIVE Webinar June 12th 2:00pm CDT
Show Notes & Quotes:
For both the yellow book and blue book the key writings in the background are, A Secular Age by Charles Taylor.
Andy declares that A Secular Age is, "the first book of the 21st Century that will be read in the 22nd Century
Youthfulness and the importance of authenticity in this age.
The hurt of pastoral identity in this secular age. “I know how to write a sermon and run a meeting, But when it comes to seeing God’s living presence in their lives I feel at a loss. “
“Where is the place of the pastor in the world?”
A Sketch Of History
What does it mean that in 1500 AD you can’t help but find Christians and evidence of Christianity? And now 500 years later it is harder and harder to find anyone that believes in God.
That to do ministry is to have an encounter with the presence of the living God.
This means working towards a deep connection with how God works in the world.
The stakes are wrong. We misdiagnose what’s actually going on. It’s possible that Youth Ministers have been playing checkers in a chess world.
The game or environment is more complicated than we had originally thought.
There is a whole cultural imagination that makes it difficult to live in the presence of a living God.
Key Historical Figures Sketched Out In The New Book
St. Augustine
Thomas Beckett
Jonathan Edwards
Henry Ward Beecher
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Rick Warren
In this new age, pastors are hurting and either they make the turn to self-blame or congregational blame.
If Jesus is better than our church will be larger is the trap we have been lured into, so how do we talk about Growth as transcendence
Forming imaginations and proclaiming where God is active in the world.
When non-traditional people became pastors?
Ministry itself, the sharing of a life with another, is the call to pastor.
A refreshed theological lens. God as a minister. God as pastor.
“The only God we can known is the God who is made known in
Hey, student ministry leaders how hard is it to get the stuff done we know is important?
It's a continuing part of monthly them on setting and getting our goals done!
In this episode, Chad Higgins and Will Cumby give life and oxygen to an important conversation about goals, focus, and getting a better grip on getting the big stuff done in youth ministry. Even the most relational ministries need to set the work before them to get it done!
Show Notes & Quotes:
Goal Management
This interview episode with Matt Overton is a jam! Engaging and energetic for those who are feeling a need for fresh wind in youth ministry (Matt would appreciate the boat joke).
Grow volume 3 drops this month! Did you know that you can get a year of Youth Ministry Booster free? Just buy Grow volume 3 here and a year of YMB is free ($240 value!).
About the Guest:
Matt Overton is a Princeton educated Virginian doing youth ministry in the Pacific North West. Matt's thoughtful, savvy, innovative approach to remodeling youth ministry is an exciting beat for frustrated or tired youth ministers.
Learn more about Matt's Team, Vision, And Mentorship Program The Columbia Future Forge Here.
Get Matt's New Book Mentorship and The Marketplace here
Get Grow+Booster for the price of Grow!
Show Notes and Quotes:
In this warm and wise interview episode with Dr. Philip Nation we examine what it means to make disciples. You are going to love the wit and wisdom that takes shape in the next 45 minutes.
May 16 2019 Grow Volume 3 drops! Don't miss out on the latest volume of the hottest selling curriculum.
Get a year of Grow Curriculum & Strategy + Youth Ministry Booster Membership For The Price of Grow!
SHOW NOTES:
Learn more how you can interact with awesome guests like Dr. Philip Nation live @ https://community.youthministrybooster.com
About Dr. Philip Nation.
"It takes solid volunteer leaders: My volunteer leader Matthew shaped how personal the faith journey could be for me."
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