Stephanie Caro, Author at YouthMinistry.com https://youthministry.com/author/stephanie-caro/ Daily Wisdom for Youth Workers. Fri, 21 Jul 2023 18:57:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 Daring to Dream https://youthministry.com/daring-to-dream/ https://youthministry.com/daring-to-dream/#respond Mon, 24 Jul 2023 10:00:11 +0000 https://youthministry.com/?p=76962 While I was on a coaching call with a volunteer youth director from a small rural church, she said: “I don’t think we’re meant to have a youth ministry at our church.
We only have 10 teenagers on our church rolls and I’ve never been able to get more than seven of them to come to anything!”…

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]]> https://youthministry.com/daring-to-dream/feed/ 0 While I was on a coaching call with a volunteer youth director from a small rural church, she said: “I don’t think we’re meant to have a youth ministry at our church.https://youthministry.com/wp-content/upload/ymprod/19-1-270x196.jpg270196 What Jesus-Centered Ministry Is/Isn’t https://youthministry.com/jesus-centered-ministry-isnt/ https://youthministry.com/jesus-centered-ministry-isnt/#comments Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:33:33 +0000 http://youthmindev.wpengine.com/?p=60166 “Of course we’re Jesus-centered, right? We’re a church youth group. Doesn’t that automatically make it about Jesus?”
That’s an actual response of a small-church youth leader when I asked about his program’s focus. Eventually, he admitted he didn’t know what it meant to “make a beeline to Jesus” in all he did.…

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