I Work With Students

October 18, 2007

When does friendship and ministry mix?

Filed under: Experience — Scott @ 3:44 am
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I am trying to figure out when do you mix ministry with friendship.  How can they mix.  You are a minister to people and a friend to them as well can be hard.  In ministry, being there friend is fine but sometimes it crosses with helping them spiritually and people can get angery.  Where does the line exsist.  Is there a line at all. 

Most of my ministry life has been filled with friendships and then when I tried to minister to them it hurt our friendship.  Most of the time I feel like I am on an island and in this alone.  I know I am not, but it can be hard. 

October 17, 2007

Never Too Old For Ministry

Filed under: Experience — Scott @ 3:00 pm
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Recently I have found churches who think that because you are not in your twenties that you cannot relate to teenagers.  Well I am here to tell you that they are wrong.  I believe the  older you get the better you can give.  As a young youth minister I made a lot of mistake and did things I should have never tried with teenagers.  As I grew up both age and spiritually I was able to minister to students and do it very well.  But some of the church I have met with think that because I am not young then I can not work with young people.  Student today need to build relationship with adults that will last.  Creating an bond with a student can help them long after they leave the ministry. 

I believe the best years are ahead of me in ministry. I am just look for the church that will let me help and lead there students. 

October 11, 2007

Building A Ministry From the Ground Up.

Filed under: Youth Ministry Ideas — Scott @ 5:19 pm
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When you are trying to build a student ministry and you want to do it right, it starts by starting slow and finding out what will work and not work with the students in the area.  Using the tools that are out there like texting, myspace, facebook and instant messanger are great tools to start communicating and interacting with students.  The students will tell you idea’s over texting and will not do it face to face.  This is the first thing in build a ministry to Students from the Ground Up.

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