3 Easy Ways to Impact a Middle Schooler’s Identity and Faith
11, 12, 13. These are the awkward years. You remember, right? Greasy hair, frizzy hair, don’t care. Weight gain and weight loss. You feel like an adult but everyone treats you like a kid.
Life for a middle schooler is rough. Forget trying to figure out who you are in Christ. Preteens are hanging onto the struggle bus for dear life.
Of course you now know that middle school drama, like everything else, won’t matter in a few short years. With the right approach, you can help preteens focus on things that really count.
What is a Middle Schooler, Anyway?
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3 Ways to Leverage This Year’s Mission Trip to Make Next Year’s Even Better
Let’s talk about three things you can do to ensure next year’s mission trips go even more smoothly than this past summer’s. No, we can’t guarantee there won’t be sickness—viral, bacterial, home, or other. And there’s really no way to ensure everyone gets along and goes to sleep at a reasonable hour. However, you have a chance right now to leverage the passion and momentum that will launch you into the next year of mission trips, or you can drop it and move to the next thing… and start from scratch again next year. So here are a few simple steps you can take to make sure what you learned this year and the momentum you have in these post-mission trip weeks isn’t lost before you begin planning for next year!
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Your (Post) Mission Trip To Do List
Okay, okay. I know what you’re thinking.
Wait. Mission trip to do list? This would have been great to have in May.
While it’s true this year’s mission trip season is in the rearview mirror, I’m here to tell you (beg you, implore you) there are just a few more things to do in order to make this year’s trips leave a lasting impression as well as prepare for even better mission trip experiences next summer.
In fact, the most important mission work you do is, arguably, right now, right here, from the comfort of your own hometown.
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How to Create Strategic Events That Help Grow Your Ministry
Events are crucial for student ministry. You need to have them as they help compliment your overall ministry plan. But is there a real strategy that is involved in organizing your events and calendar? I recently joined Tom Pounder on the Youth Ministry Sidekick podcast to talk about it!
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