Desk IV

Youth Pastors

For youth pastors, student ministry volunteers, and next-generation leaders. Discipleship that sticks past graduation, parent partnership, safety, and teaching teenagers well.

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Health

Next Generation

Screening and Safety Policies That Protect Students and Leaders

A background check is the start of a safe youth ministry, not the whole of it. Here is the layered system that protects students from harm and protects good leaders from false suspicion.

Pastor Andre Mitchell · 6 min

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Growth

Forming Disciples

Small Group Curriculum That Teenagers Do Not Roll Their Eyes At

Teenagers can smell a canned lesson from across the room. The curriculum that works opens the Bible, asks real questions, and leaves space for a leader who knows their names.

Dr. Renee Foster · 6 min

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Growth

Next Generation

Parent Partnership: The Meeting Every Youth Pastor Should Hold

You get a student for an hour or two a week. Their parents get the rest. Here is how to run the one meeting that turns parents from spectators into partners.

Pastor Andre Mitchell · 7 min