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The Youth Ministry Podcast is a conversation covering key youth ministry topics with top practitioners and thinkers, designed to help youth workers reflect on their practice and flourish as leaders.
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Today's youth need youth pastors, mentors, teachers, volunteers, and most of all, they need YOU! Youth Worker On Fire is designed to give you the knowledge and inspiration you need to be the best youth worker possible. Youth Worker On Fire podcast is full of valuable information from people who work with youth on a daily basis. It is also packed with interviews with former students (years later) in their adult life and how student ministry, or the lack of it, effected their future. Many are ...
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You may be an amazing speaker. You are probably an incredible person, but people listen and believe you are who you are when other people, students, staff, parents and colleagues say great things about you (what you and/or your ministry have accomplished). It’s still happening to me. People are still talking about good things, God things, that we a…
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Episode 99: Prayer and Evangelism - Laura Hancock
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What do prayer and evangelism have in common? More than just the fact we know they’re important and should probably be doing them more than we are! 😅 In this episode, we chat with Laura Hancock about how prayer that doesn’t lead to evangelism can become spiritual narcissism, how evangelism without prayer is powerless, but how marrying the two toget…
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“Do for others what you want them to do for you.” Have you ever had someone hold a door open for you when your hands or arms were full? Felt pretty good knowing someone cared. How many doors have you held open for people? Some of those doors you opened were emotional, spiritual, life changing, job or vocation changing doors. This episode includes a…
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203 Mackenzie Balmer - Apex Missions
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Mackenzie Balmer was a girl who grew up without the church. When she encountered Jesus, she found out that God had a wonderful plan for her life already in place. She and her husband Zane have a unique love story and they both have a ministry profession. Mackenzie is with Apex Missions for students with the EFCA (Evangelical Free Church of America)…
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This episode is about taking action! Especially, acting like (aka modeling) the person you want your children and/or students to be like. “Do what I say and not what I do!” Was an old saying. It didn’t work when it was popular and it doesn’t work now. What do you want your children, grandchildren, students, volunteer staff to be like? Whatever that…
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201 NO CASH - NO HOPE - NO JOBS... 25 YEARS
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25 years seems like a long time until you compare it to history. We overestimate what we can accomplish in a year and under estimate what we can accomplish in 10 years. Time and longevity matter! Invest in teenagers and your personal future will change. Life changing events happen. Students grow up and in a few years after school, they are making d…
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200 Dr. Sarah Cooke Friend - Oncologist - Former Youth Ministry Student
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How does an Oncologist end up on a podcast like this? Why would she take her precious time to give to us her knowledge and kindness? Great questions! Dr. Sarah Friend (formally Sarah Cooke) was a student in the youth ministry I was the pastor of. She gives great credit to my wonderful wife, Colleen, for disciplining her during high school. She talk…
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Episode 98: Exploring Spiritual Temperaments - Sarah Whittleston
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If you ever feel like you’re going against the grain of your personality, or trying to fit into someone else’s skin when you pray, then this is a conversation that could transform your life with God! 🙌 We sit down with Sarah Whittleston, Director of Elim Prayer, to talk about how understanding our own ‘spiritual temperament, or prayer personality, …
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Having fun with students is hard work... Gettting students to laugh along with you and/or making them smile is even harder! Why does it matter? When you get students to laugh or smile it raises their IQ levels... no joke! According a study, it makes a person 31% smarter. When you make someone smarter, they feel better about themselves... and about …
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198 NICHE DOWN! External and Internal Threats
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Organizations and churches want to save money, so they try to hire people for one thing and put too many hats on them... that way they don’t have to spend more on staff. As a result, they complain about everything, because you are doing "little to nothing" well. That responsibility lies on those who hire without the faith to believe that God wants …
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197 Never Stop Praying For People with Jim Halstead of Go and Tell Ministries
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Breaking Strong Holds… Maybe you have been praying for someone or for a certain person to have an encounter with God. An encounter life changing that it would have them seeking to ask Jesus Christ personally in their heart. Has it maybe seemed like it’s taking forever? Not even a sign of hope? Jim Halstead (Founder of Go and Tell Ministries) asked …
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During a recent interview between Erika from "Erika Taught Me" and Chris Voss (Author of "Never Spilt The Difference" and a former FBI Hostage Negotiator), she asks this question: Chris, how do you use these special communication methods that you've developed during your time as a hostage negotiator in your every day life? We dive deep into these e…
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Episode 97: Unanswered Prayer - Pete Greig
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Pete Greig is the founder of the 24-7 Prayer movement, and author of God on Mute: Engaging the Silence of Unanswered Prayer. We sat down with Pete to wrestle with the mystery of unanswered prayer. 🙏 We cover a lot of important ground in this conversation, including… … why our prayers go unanswered ✅ … when God intervenes miraculously, and when he d…
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195 Caleb Turner - Youth Director at Factory Church
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Caleb Turner is the Youth Director at Factory Church located in Concord, North Carolina, USA (a suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina). Caleb has been in full time student ministry for a little over one year at the time of this recording and we cannot wait to share with you his life story here on the Youth Worker On Fire Podcast! Saved by his adoptiv…
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Jeff Bezos, the founder owner of Amazon, understands and believes in the difference between a Calling and a Career. If a great business man believes in a calling, how much more should we? Are you called to serving others and adventure? Or are you stuck, because you can’t see beyond a pay check? Jesus said an earthly father knows how to give good gi…
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Andy McDaniel... Leader... Ripple... Tsunami! What is a tsunami? A tsunami is a series of extremely long waves caused by a large and sudden displacement of the ocean, usually the result of an earthquake below or near the ocean floor. This force creates waves that radiate outward in all directions away from their source, sometimes crossing entire oc…
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192 Lenita Abouchabake - Founder of Teen Coach Academy
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Lenita Abouchabake is from Sydney, Australia and the Founder of Teen Coach Academy. This is her second interview on the Youth Worker On Fire Podcast. Lenita's business is helping adults who already serve teenagers and their families become teen life coaches. That may seem odd to some of you, but life coaching has been around for quite a while... an…
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Episode 96: Creative Prayer - Becca Dean
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Becca Dean is the Tutor in Youth Ministry at Ridley Hall in Cambridge, and author of Be Live Pray: Get in Touch with a Great Prayer Life. We sat down with Becca for a compelling conversation about creativity in prayer. 💃🙏 There is so much food for thought here, including… … how understanding our unique ‘intelligences’ can help us to pray ✅ … why pr…
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Most people really do not know why they believe what they believe. Many of us who do, need to be refreshed, so that we can fight spiritual warfare more effectively. But in your hearts set Christ apart [as holy—acknowledging Him, giving Him first place in your lives] as Lord. Always be ready to give a [logical] defense to anyone who asks you to acco…
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While you may be teaching, coaching, raising or leading adolescence it is important that you pay the most attention to your young children while doing the work. Then he said to them, “Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. For it is the one who is least among you all who is t…
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COMFORT... IS IT A TRAP? Most of us "work forward" -> to being comfortable, but comfort can kill you or at the least make you lose the ability to achieve or live up to the purposes God has made you for in this life. Too much comfort slows creative juices down. To much comfort can set you up for moral failures as it did for King David. "Pray that th…
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YOU MATTER… Everything You Do Counts… Everyone You Meet Is Important! You were bought with a price [you were actually purchased with the precious blood of Jesus and made His own]. So then, honor and glorify God with your body. - 1 Corinthians 6:20 (Amplified Bible) For we are His workmanship [His own master work, a work of art], created in Christ J…
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In this episode, we interview Chase Allen (Youth Pastor at First Baptist Church Umatilla) about his month long sabbatical in 2023. Here are some of the questions we discuss: 1. How long have you been in student ministry and how long have you been at this Church? 2. Who decided you needed a sabbatical? 3. Did you think you had time to take a sabbati…
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Episode 95: A Call to Prayer - Josh Green
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Welcome to the first episode of the newly renamed Limitless Youth Ministry Podcast! 🙌 We’re launching into a brand new series that’s dedicated to prayer, kicking off with a challenging and inspiring discussion with Josh Green from 24-7 Prayer Youth. 🔥 There’s loads to chew over here, including… … why ‘prayer’ is not necessarily what you think! ✅ … …
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Better to have little, with fear for the LORD, than to have great treasure and inner turmoil. (Proverbs 15:16) Ed Sheeran (Songwriter/Artist) - “Writing music is like turning on a faucet. At first you get muddy water. The more you run it, the clearer the water gets. The same thing happens when writing music. At first the ideas are unclear, but as y…
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God has a plan for you and your team! Moses had a lot of energy when he was in Egypt and thought he knew everything. However, he found that his energy alone and his willingness to lead got him into trouble. It took God about 40 years to get Moses in the mindset to where he actually could lead with humility. In this episode, you will learn about the…
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Happy New Year! God has a plan for your life. I always knew I was meant for something good since I was very young… around 5th grade to be exact. But it was seldom easy. At age 15, I had a God encounter that would send me on the journey I saw in a daydream when I was 10 years old. That journey has never ended. God continues to open and close doors. …
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183 New Year's Resolutions: Word For The Year
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Pick your… WORD FOR THE YEAR! Yes, one word. A friend of mine has asked me and many other friends to pick their “word” for quite a few years now. What is that one word that you want to define the upcoming year? Here are a few changes you can make to go from negative talk to positive and proactive thinking: Impatient…Patient Unprepared…..Always Prep…
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