Youth ministry

Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Youth Ministry Booster Podcast, live from our beautiful studio here in Nashville, hanging out with the one and the only Daniel Kincaid.

Daniel, my man!

Oh my gosh.

There you go.

But, Dan, I want to talk with you a little bit today.

In the work of youth ministry, there are some, like, Key, key roles, key functions, but key words that I think are kind of some of the metrics that are coming out of being a healthy and good youth minister.

You know, for a lot of folks, we want to see, you know, good attendance.

We want to see spiritual growth.

Like, youth pastor has lots of different things.

Uh, if, if you're listening and you've been in youth ministry, you know that it takes you in all kinds of places, but, like, what for you is the joy of youth ministry? What, what do you love about it?

Hmm.

Yeah, I think a real joy is just watching young people...

So, so good.

I don't know what you'd say, say, Tom, but I...

From, from where I've been seated, a real mark of Lara's time in the youth ministry has been the depth of discipleship in a number of different young people.

It's been absolutely amazing.

But there was a dying to certain things, and off you go on new things.

So I became a youth pastor.

And I don't know if you know this, but youth pastoring is the greatest version of pastoring.

That's the best one.

All care, no responsibility.

When I was a youth pastor, we didn't have health and safety.

There was no RAM forms.

There was just...

My name is Lars Skoglund.

I am the Associate Rector and Director of Youth Ministry I just moved to Houston with my wife, Katie, who grew up in Conroe, the Woodlands area, and our seven-year-old twins, Oscar and Jane.

I spent almost my entire life, and including the last 10 years in Wisconsin, serving as priest and vicar, rector, et cetera, et cetera.

And because I'm from Wisconsin, I'm laughing that Lee calls this fall.

[laughs] Like, you know, I've, I've shared with you guys the youth story.

Have I shared you guys? I, I was the youth pastor fir- for the first eight years of the church.

Have I shared this story? Oh, we're gonna tell stories.

Okay.

Um, so, you know, youth pastoring, Banning kind of begged me into it, forced me into it.

[laughs] And I didn't wanna do it.

I, I, cr- i- crazily enough, guys, I didn't feel... [laughs] Here's a word about what you feel you're called to.

Okay.

[upbeat music] Welcome to the Youth Ministry in the Vine podcast.

I'm Kyle, pastor of family ministry at Old North Church in Canfield, Ohio, and author of Youth Ministry in the Vine: A Ministry Mind Shift for Discipling the Next Generation, published by Matthias Media.

This podcast exists to equip youth pastors and volunteers to build biblical, sustainable, and contextual youth ministries.

Here we are on episode three of season two of the Youth Ministry in the Vine podcast.

Thanks so much for watching or listening today.

I do wanna remind you, uh, that, uh, the book, Youth Ministry in the Vine, that this podcast is based off of, is now available.

You can find it anywhere that you buy books.

Today, I am here with two friends, uh, Marty and Val, uh, to talk about a very important topic.

We also have opportunities for our students to gather.

Youth Group for grades six through 12 meets at 6:00 PM on Sundays, and our Awana program for sixth grade and under meets at 6:15 PM on Wednesdays.

Again, we thank you for joining us today, and we hope to see you soon.

But until next time, stay faithful.

They are Sunday morning Bible study at nine fifteen AM, Sunday morning service at ten thirty AM, Sunday evening service at six thirty PM, and Wednesdays at six thirty PM.

We also have opportunities for our students to gather.

Youth group for grades six through twelve meets at six o'clock PM on Sundays, and our Awana program for sixth grade and under meets at six fifteen PM on Wednesdays.

Again, we thank you for joining us today, and we hope to see you soon.

So we ate well and we had fun.

And we talked about these challenges in youth ministry.

And now we're about to have our second meeting.

And out of that, there's these seeds of a new youth network being formed and dreaming about how can we do camps together? How can we partner together around the city to really meet kids where they're at? So again, that's the stuff I've been most excited about and surprised by.

A man I know, a good friend from Florida, came up and planted a church there in Harrison.

And so I've come along and helped start the children's ministry and the youth ministry and helping to get things established.

We're seeing a lot of youth come in, a lot that don't even have background in the faith, a lot that don't have, which is very important because statistics say that Major majority of the church that's here today was reached before the age of 18, you know, as youth.

But we're seeing a lot of youth come in with bondage and a lot.

They're like so far lost that they don't even know what you're talking about.

And so I really like what you're saying about using the supernatural and emphasizing the supernatural.

I think when people... think of youth ministry, sometimes they just think it's pizza parties and flashing lights and smoke.

And games.