Check out these “Powerful Questions for Strategic Conversations.” This coaching resource is designed to help coaches facilitate meaningful conversations and guide members toward greater insight and intentional growth. The goal is to help leaders think more deeply, gain greater clarity, and become more visionary in their leadership.
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MARKER #1: Vision & Alignment
Vision drives everything. Do you have a clear and compelling vision for your Student Ministry? Do students and leaders understand your mission, strategy, and values? Check out these Quick Tips for Refining Your Vision, Mission, Strategy, and Values.
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MARKER #2: Tips for Life Transformation
Is your youth ministry a place where life transformation happens? Do you want students’ lives to be changed by the power of God? That’s the goal of most youth ministries, but sometimes it can get lost in our programming. Check out these 5 Tips for Developing Life Transformation.
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MARKER #3: Tips for Building Healthy Teams
Teamwork is essential, but what does it take to build a healthy team and create a healthy team environment? How well does your ministry do at recruiting and training volunteers? Join the conversation with experienced leaders, Joe and Hunter, as they share some Funky Fresh Tips for Building Healthy Teams and why it matters.
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MARKER #4: Tips for Creating Student Ownership
Do your students get excited about your youth ministry? Do they have an opportunity to give ideas, get involved in leading, and help shape what your ministry does? Check out these HOT Tips for Creating Student Ownership.
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MARKER #5: Pressure Free Teaching Tips
One of the greatest honors of working in student ministry is teaching God’s Word. It can also bring the most pressure because it’s the most public aspect of our job. Check out these 4 Great Teaching Tips to help you prep your lessons with less stress.
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MARKER #6: Tips for Creating Intentional Events
Are you good at building intentional events that students actually want to attend? Check out these HOT Event Tips and Tricks to make your next gathering irresistible.
MARKER #7: Tips for Showing Uncommon Care
Being a teenager can be tough, but you can help make it easier. Does your youth ministry provide a safe and caring environment where students can grow? Do students feel seen and understood by a caring adult? Join the conversation with Erika & Dianne, and check out these 5 Tips for Showing Uncommon Care and Acceptance.
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MARKER #8: Group Communication Tips
Do your students, parents, and volunteers know what’s happening in your ministry? Do you have a clear way to communicate the details of your next activity or event? Check out these 5 HOT Tips for Communicating with your students and families.
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MARKER #9: Tips for Evaluating Your Ministry
Evaluating our ministries can help us improve them. Join the conversation as Tim and Maria share years of insight from their growing Student Ministry in Kansas. Check out the interview and put these 5 Powerful Tips for Evaluating Your Ministry into practice.
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ESSENTIAL #1: Soul Care Tips
We live in a culture addicted to hurry, and that pace can be felt even more for youth pastors and church leaders. If we are not careful, we can easily find ourselves facing burnout. Check out these 3 Great Soul Care Tips and how to reclaim your Sabbath.
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ESSENTIAL #2: Team Training Resources
Need to train your volunteer youth leaders? Check out these 8 Volunteer Team Training Resources! Here’s why… Inviting others to share their God-given gifts and then training and building them up to pour into the lives of students promotes volunteer longevity, consistency, and fulfillment.
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ESSENTIAL #3: Sharing the Gospel
Do your students know how to share the Gospel? What is their confidence level in sharing their own faith story? Check out these Outreach Tips & Tools for helping teenagers learn and share the GOSPEL with their friends.
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ESSENTIAL #5: Student Leadership Resources
Check out these 9 GREAT SL RESOURCES! Here’s why… Developing a student leadership team and creating ways for students to serve builds ownership and helps them become participants instead of spectators. Providing leadership training and opportunities to lead helps create a student-centered culture and multiplies your leadership.
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ESSENTIAL #6: Small Group Discussion Tips
Need a quick way to train your Small Group leaders? Does your team need reminded how to lead a good small group? Check out these 7 Small Group Tips for leading an effective discussion with students.
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ESSENTIAL #7: Programming Tips for Good Transitions
Transitions are one of the most important parts of what we do as student ministry leaders. Helping students move well from one ministry to another is vital to their personal and spiritual growth. Check out these HOT Tips for Good Transitions.
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ESSENTIAL #8: Tips for Connecting with Students
All people have a God-given built in desire to be known, and our students are constantly asking “Does anyone care about me?” Check out these 3 Quick Tips for KNOWING Your Students and connecting with them even more.
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8 ESSENTIALS: Tips for Becoming a Coach
Do you have a heart to help other youth pastors? Check out these 5 Tips for Becoming a Coach. As a Certified Coach, you have a unique opportunity to impact youth pastors around the country and pass on what you have learned from your own mentors and ministry experience.
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L2 Summer Training Videos
Hey Lead222 Community! We have some great speakers & videos lined up for our Summer Training. We asked our STAFF to PICK some of their FAVORITE teachers, trainers, and thought leaders to help enhance your youth ministry and your leadership. Check it out…
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5 Minutes With Bo: Mentoring
Do you have a mentor in your life? Do you have someone who invests in you, believes in you, and makes you better? Do you have someone that you mentor? Check out these 3 Great MENTORING Resources and why mentoring matters. Hear it straight from the President of LEAD222, Bo Boshers.
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