Here is a post I wrote for Youth Worker Journal. They have an incredibly resource-rich website as well as a magazine filled with excellent articles to grow your faith and capacity as a youth worker. If you work with youth or lead family ministry the Youth Worker Journal needs to be on your radar. It took me ten years to discover the reality that lasting change in the lives of the youth God has called us to lead does not happen best in programs or events. I had this idea that our mission was accomplished by kids coming through the turnstiles of our church. The more kids that came, the more often they came, and the more we were on a mission and fulfilling the great commission. Looking back over 20 years of ministry in the same community to the same families, I can see where God, by his grace, moved into the lives of kids, and as I look back it was in ways I didn’t expect.  The relevance myth –  Keep them coming, and hope something sticks. This is the biggest mistake most youth workers make in the first five years of ministry. You relate to them and … Continue reading Rabbit Starvation and Missional Youth Ministry