By Len on Jan 29, 2012 in Youth Ministry | 0 Comments
Here’s a a recent testimony we received from a youth worker who we’ve helped. I can’t begin to tell you how much Simply Soul Care has helped me. (But I’ll try anyway!) I was really struggling with staying in my current position. I was given advice to leave by many who heard my story. But [...]
By Len on Nov 10, 2011 in Youth Ministry | 1 Comment
Simply Soul Care has been operating for a few months. l getting our legs under us as we discover better ways to serve youth workers. If you’ve followed us on twitter or if you’ve been one of the numerous youth workers who have been helped by one of our Soul Care Advocates, would you please [...]
By Len on Oct 17, 2011 in NNYM, Prayer Updates, Youth Ministry | 0 Comments
I joked about wearing three hats at the National Youth Workers Convention before I went but I turned out to be so true and I didn’t suffer from identity whiplash because all three roles are who I am. The three hats were: National Network of Youth Ministries hat, We Love Our Youth Worker hat and [...]
By Len on Aug 15, 2011 in General, Youth Ministry | 3 Comments
You never can tell when you might be meeting a future boss. So it’s important to always be yourself and to guard your character. You might lose a job because of some snide comment about a mutual friend or someone they don’t even know. I met Doug Clark, my boss with the National Network of Youth [...]
By Len on Jun 5, 2011 in Youth Ministry | 0 Comments
People hurt each other. We know that. We even know that “Hurt People Hurt People“. That’s a great book that shares the majority of people who habitually strike out at others, are deeply wounded themselves. Duh! But it’s by a Ph. D and it goes way more in depth, so if you have a chance, [...]
By Len on Mar 16, 2011 in Articles, Networking, Youth Ministry | 0 Comments
Want to change the world? The best place to start is in your own backyard. Take a minute or two to quickly list at least three big needs in your community. Now look at your list and pick one that seems to capture your attention more than the others. Then cold-call a ministry or organization [...]
By Len on Jan 3, 2011 in Articles, Youth Ministry | 0 Comments
Here’s my latest “Tools” article for Group Magazine: We’re all busy, so it’s easy to tell ourselves that we’re too far underwater to build strategic relationships with others in our community (teachers, school administrators, business leaders, other youth workers or anyone else who cares for teenagers). But doing something–anything–to build up your connections is a [...]
By Len on Dec 3, 2010 in Youth Ministry | 1 Comment
This year, I went to three youth ministry conventions. The Simply Youth Ministry Conference in Chicago and the two National Youth Workers Conventions in San Diego and Nashville. At all three I had an official role, to care for youth workers. At Simply I was part of what is now being called The Shelter and [...]
By Len on Nov 5, 2010 in NNYM, Prayer Updates, Youth Ministry | 0 Comments
A good bit of what I do for the National Network is relational, slow and behind the scenes. I thought I would give you a peek into how I am currently helping a couple of great youth workers. Details have been changed but here is a portion of what I wrote recently: Here are a [...]
By Len on Jun 4, 2010 in Youth Ministry Prayers | 0 Comments
I have the honor of being a convention pastor for both of the National Youth Workers Conventions and I have been thinking about how to incorporate prayer for that event before it happens. It is a weird tension that Youth Specialties, Simply Youth Ministry and other youth ministry companies operate in. They provide resources and [...]
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