It starts innocently enough. You go online to look for the football scores or a recipe for overnight oats and before you know it you have fallen headfirst into a bottomless pit of hot takes, conspiracy theories, and people who definitely should not be allowed near a ring light.

This is Part 2 of our series on training your ministry team. In Part 1, we explored God’s blueprint for ministry and why training changes everything. Now let’s tackle the common objections and discover the lasting impact of investing in your volunteers.

If you want speed, work alone. If you want fruit that lasts, train a team.

A wake-up call for church leaders about why young people are leaving for Orthodox, Catholic, and even Islamic communities

As a new academic year commences and a new term dawns, it is helpful for us to remind ourselves of the key responsibility we have in ministry to the next generations.

For children’s, youth and family ministers, and the parents they serve.

The arrival of summer usually means that youth and children’s ministry leaders breath a collective sigh of relief that they have survived another academic year!

Another academic year draws its final breath, and with it the halls fall quiet.

Comfort is one of the great gods of our age. In the Western world, we have curated lifestyles that avoid hardship, minimise inconvenience, and prize personal ease above almost everything else.

Nothing can shake a child’s world quite like the death of a loved one. And no one can comfort a grieving child like the One who is a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief

Youth group nights are often full of life: football, table tennis, snacks, crafts, chatter. It’s loud, chaotic, and fun.

In recent years, the “incel movement” has emerged as a cultural phenomenon with significant implications, particularly for teenagers.