Jeff ThompsonMore PostsTop 25 Youth Ministry Blogs
The Youth Cartel posted the Top 25 blogs on youth ministry. Thought you might enjoy the list. A lot of great ministry ideas are represented in these blogs.
Full Disclosure: We love The Youth Cartel. We’re one of the sponsors of their Middle School Ministry Campference.
Jeff Thompson, a veteran of youth ministry, serves as the Director of Youth Missions for Group Mission Trips - Workcamps, Week of Hope and The Big Day of Serving.
Toby Rowe is the Mission Program Manager for Group Workcamps, Group Week of Hope, and The Big Day of Serving - which is fancy talk for overseeing the spiritual content and worship programming.
Be PresentEvery year, our ministry finishes out the school year with “Senior Weekend,” where seniors take over and run the weekend....
A Day In The Life….Yesterday the guys on our junior high team were making a video. It had something to do with a mini...
A Wonderful Little Ministry….That You’ve Never Heard Of.I love how vast our little youth ministry world is! I really like discovering men and women who finding their...
Is It Time For A Reboot?Last night our college ministry officially “Rebooted”. Without going into the long story, it had been in an odd place...
Coming Soon: Middle School Ministry Campference!If you work with middle schoolers/junior highers, you really should join us for our 3rd annual Middle School Ministry Campference!...
iPhone Mic Tip (making video)I needed to shoot a quick video for an upcoming college gathering at our church. It was pretty windy and...
40 Free Backgrounds!!!By clicking on the 40/40/40 link below you will be taken to Simply Youth Ministry’s website where you can download...
Apple Live KeynoteI know everyone is not an Apple fan but if you are, or if you are just curious, check out...
Small Group Summer Study?If you are hosting or thinking of hosting a summer study with you students check out “Rise Up.” With Rise...
Spring 2013 Big Day of ServingYouth Leaders, inspire your students to be part of something amazing… This spring, your students can serve people in need...
Youth Ministry Do’sSo much of youth ministry seems to be about what “not” to do. Don’t spill Kool-Aid on the carpet. Don’t...
Change Is The Only ConstantChange is one of the only things that is always present in our work with Group Mission Trips. I’ve had...
2013 Simply Youth Ministry ConferenceStarting this Friday you’ll be able to see pretty much every member of the Group Mission Trips team at SYMC...
Changing Reality, Yet One Thing RemainsChanging Reality, Yet One Constant Remains “This one things remains; Your love never fails, never gives up, never runs out...
The Time Zones of Youth MinistryThis post is generated from a dare I received from members of a “dear to my heart” team of youth...
May Can Be Stressful!!NEED A REFRESHER? There is no doubt that the month of May is one of the most difficult in youth...
When They Walk Away…It was almost ten years ago at a camp that Sarah had decided that she was choosing Jesus’ ways but...
Who’s It Gonna Be?!?Who’s It Gonna Be?!? It’s been all over the news! Everyone is talking about who is going to win the NCAA Championship...
New Release! Everybody’s Urban!The word “urban” seems simple to define—but “urban teenager” is anything but simple to understand and explain. Even if you’re...
Want to Know the Hottest Release from SYMC?!THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT YOUR FRIENDS? THINK YOUR FRIENDS KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU? THINK AGAIN! This Book Gets Around...
I’m not sure whether I’m embarrassed or proud…I know many of you can relate… your husband is the church’s default funny guy. In some ways, it feels...
be… A sweet and dear friend of ours died yesterday. Cancer stinks. It is an injustice. It is...
Wonder Woman Nothing will take me down faster than when my family goes down. My 3 year old got a...
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