My brother-in-law, Houston Heflin, has jumped aboard the blogwagon. Right now he’s reminding me why I’m glad I’m not a youth minister.
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Training For Something Greater
My brother-in-law, Houston Heflin, has jumped aboard the blogwagon. Right now he’s reminding me why I’m glad I’m not a youth minister.
Telling Stories, Asking Questions, Learning Lessons
I have often though of becoming a youth minister but then get scared off bc I know that youth ministers get “ran off” at some point and I really do not want to move from from place to place. I guess the best thing is keep my day job and do what I can when I can with the youth and bring my boys with me. “Church” can be a strange place…
I was a YM for longer than I’ve been a PM. Youth ministry was definitely the harder job.
Oh baby, I could go on and on.
1. Who’s the customer?
2. Who’s the boss?
3. Spiritual formation guide or cool babysitter?
4. Parental abdication of spiritual formation responsibility.
5. Divided family of faith.
6. Schedule add on events.
7. Unintegrated faith.
8. “When will our kids grow up and appreaciate hymns?”
9. “Julie is a senior and falling away, can you get her to a Christian college?”
10. OUtsourcing spiritual formation is a bad faith economy.
Youth ministry a hard job? Yeah right. I just read the other day in some cofc magazine that youth ministers primarily serve hotdogs and take kids to Six Flags. How hard can that be……….
I forgot which yahoo said that, but I don’t envy ym’s at all. Their work is too hard. (Except when they get to go to concerts like Casting Crowns or Steven Curtis Chapman, then I’m jealous)
note: yahoo – a person without a clue on what he or she is talking about.