Archive for November, 2010

Teaching young people to journal

Although not everyone are very keen to write their thoughts and journal things that happen to them, we continually encourage young people to start even with short notes at first. Reminding them that it takes three weeks to form a habit. Although it might not come easy at first, it will only be a matter [...]

Sunday, November 28th, 2010

Christmas Giveaways

As we look into neat things to give away for the youth for Christmas, there is one thing that stands out amongst all the usual stuff that are readily available in the market

Sunday, November 28th, 2010

Influence

The impact that ministers have on the youth is invaluable. We are basically guiding them towards making the right choices in their life. This does not just pertain to spiritual things. Very often, I find myself sharing how to be good stewards on just about everything that life offers them. Especially on how to handle [...]

Thursday, November 25th, 2010

WiFi Zone

With youth becoming more techie by the day, we cannot help but contemplate on turning the youth center into a WiFi zone. We already got a Linksys router dedicated to do just that. Now we are off to consider to have a MiFi to get our internet sticks to work and get the job done. [...]

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

The need to belong

The youth ministry is the perfect training ground for young people to be better individuals. We all have to admit it, school’s peer pressure can be pretty tight. Aside from having to put up with bullies all around you, the struggle to belong will always be there for individuals whose personalities are not exactly on [...]

Friday, November 19th, 2010

Heeding God’s Call

Top concerns of today’s young people are all about family, studies and their future career. While this has probably been true for generations, it remains a challenge for us youth ministers to come close and have them come out of their shells. We all can relate to them, being in the very same predicament and [...]

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

Keeping track of birthdays

The whole idea of having a once a month gathering of the young people every last Saturday of the month is to celebrate friendships and enjoy good, clean fun with the youth. One thing we have got to do is take up a database like we used to on birthdays. Birthdays should be treated with [...]

Friday, November 12th, 2010