January_February 2012 Issue Now Available!

In the Jan_Feb issue 20,000 Christian teenagers reveal what they’d love more of from your ministry, and what they could do without. Their bottom choice may shock you.

The Secret Dreams of Youth Pastors reveals what a “nirvana” youth ministry would look like. Here is help for moving from “the impossible dream” to the “new norm”.

Find out more about We Love Our Youth Worker in the Q&A with Jake Kircher, the U.S. representative of this UK based movement.

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I Want Both

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By Mark Devries

So what—or who—is the problem here? I’ve begun to wonder: Do we really have to choose between deep and wide? Could our best bet for going wide be, ironically, going deep? Spiritually shallow programming no longer works as an attraction method, and it certainly doesn’t work as a retention method, if it ever did.

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The Secret Dreams of Teenagers

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By Rick Lawrence

The eye-opening results from our annual survey of more than 20,000 Christian teenagers reveal what they’d love more of from your ministry, and what they could do without. Thier top choice will surprise you, but their bottom choice may shock you.

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The Beauty of a Mangled ‘Witness’

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By Rick Lawrence

The other day I met with Casey Franklin, a Denver youth pastor who’s had a typically epic 15-year run in youth ministry—his stories of incredible impact and incredible heartbreak dance the Tango together. Both of us, we discovered, have sometimes wondered how to communicate the “down-and-dirty” realities of serving at a church to people on “the outside.”

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