I’ve Got Something to Say

I’ve been doing student ministry full time for a full decade now… and I love it. I love that moment when you’re with a small group of students and you ask them to share what they are processing. I love that awkward moment of silence and curious facial expressions and worried facial expressions and I really, really love the moment that one students begins to clear their throat because they have something to say…

Last night in our last small groups session, one of our young men cleared his throat and began to share how he had a new understanding of who was and who he is created by God to be.

That a profound thought! Who I am in this very moment and connecting the dots to who I should be in Christ Jesus. Two totally different worlds… different people that are now in a collision course. When who we are collides with who Christ has called us to be… everything changes. EVERYTHING!

World it’s time for us to listen up then next time this young man clears his throat and mutters the words, “I’ve got something to say…”
This young man is about to speak truth into his world and everything in his world is going to be held responsible for their response to TRUTH.

Live Curriculum

Curriculum created for student ministry that meets the needs of your ministry???

I know what you’re think… no way… I’ve been in ministry for 10 years, and I know for fact that it doesn’t exist.  Well… guess what?  It’s here.  simplyyouthministry.com created.  It’s called Live Curriculum.  It costs $499 and it’s four years worth of Bible Study Curriculum, which helps you to track what you are teaching, have taught, and be aware of what you’ll be teaching in a few years. 

Also there is an online site to help you track your leaders, your calendar, and so much more.  The online engine if free for the first year with the purchase of Live Curriculum.  After that, it’s only $99. 

Student Ministry???

What Is Student Ministry?

Student Ministry =

Student –  For our group, it is adolescents grades 6th – 12th.

Ministry – literally means to serve or to meet the needs of others.

So Student Ministry is…

1. Serving or meeting the needs of Students (teenagers… your teen).
2. Students (teens) meeting the needs of those around them.

We are created for ministry…

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.   Ephesians 2:10

We are SAVED for ministry…

who has saved us and
called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but
because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ
Jesus before the beginning of time,  2 Timothy 1:9

We have been chosen for ministry…

But you are
a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging
to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of
darkness into his wonderful light. ¹⁰Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.  1 Peter 2:9-10

*Too often we confuse teens with being the future, the future leaders, the future Church.  Truth be told many teens are leaders.  Those who know Christ are the Church.  God has used and continues to use teenagers to be the movers and shakers of His Bride… The Church.