What To Unpack From Camp

By Paul Turner • Pleasant Grove Assembly of God • Pleasant Grove, Alabama Your son or daughter will be coming home from camp soon. In addition to shirts, pants, and underwear they will be unpacking their problems, victories, and...

Rend Collective: The Campfire

NOTE: This is one of the articles about “Camp” to which Youth Leaders Only members have free access. To read the other articles, join YLO!  We’ve created a playlist that really goes along with this blog – Rend Collective‘s...

In Defense of Summer Camp

By Jeremy White / Valley Church / Vacaville, California / jwhite@valleychurch.com NOTE: This is one of the articles about “Camp” to which Youth Leaders Only members have free access. To read the other articles, join YLO!  My parents could never afford...

Payday!

By Ken McCoy / JumpStart Ministries / Charlotte, North Carolina / kennymac@mac.com NOTE: This is one of the articles about “Camp” to which Youth Leaders Only members have free access. To read the other articles, join YLO!...

He Is Risen

Greetings and Happy Easter Co-laborers in Youth Ministry, God became one of us, lived the perfect life, offered Himself as the sacrifice for our sin, and rose from the dead. This message has changed our...

The Counter Culture

By Allen Weed / interlinc / Franklin, Tennessee Chuck Girard of pioneer Jesus Movement band Love Song sharing with group of CCM musicians. Last evening I had the unusual privilege to spend several hours...

“Saper Vedere”

By Joel Van Dyke, Director, Urban Training Collaborative Street Psalms, Guatemala City, Guatemala “Too often, we want to move into mission without saper vedere (before ‘knowing how to see’), and in doing so we...

Why Missions and Service Fit So Well Together

By Toby Rowe / Group Mission Trips / Loveland, Colorado Every youth leader at some time and in some way asks these two very important questions: What does Jesus want from our student ministry? What do students...

The Prepositions Of Mission

By Joel Van Dyke / Estrategia de Transformacion / Guatemala City, Guatemala One of the most profound lessons I have learned working with high-risk young people is that I must give serious attention to the prepositions...

Life Lessons from the Border

By Jeff Bachman / Mariner’s Church / Mission Viejo, California I am not a missionary, but I do go on mission trips. Since I spend as much time traveling to and from the mission...