All Posts Tagged With: "youth ministry"
How do you get parents to involve their students?
This is a question that many Student Ministers have had to face over the years. We want all the students who attend church to be a part of what we have going on and too often we can take that personally.
5Jan2012 | David Mehrle | 0 comments | Continued
Toys in Youth Ministry
How often have we as Youth Ministers fallen into that trap. Always looking for the coolest new things to use in our ministries. What lights are there that can create a cool look?
2Feb2011 | David Mehrle | 1 comment | ContinuedNow is the time!
I was doing some sermon prep on my day off and came across this verse in the Gospel of John. “Do you not say, ‘Four months more and then the harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.” John 4:35 Jesus had just started sharing the [...]
18Apr2008 | David Mehrle | 0 comments | ContinuedNeed some help!
This past weekend we (Harvester Christian Church) brought in an organization called Visioneering to look at our facilities and to determine what the next move for us would be. In this process they also shared a creative plan as to what our buildings will look like in the future. They did an awesome job and [...]
4Apr2008 | David Mehrle | 0 comments | ContinuedDeath by Meeting
How many times have you sat in a meeting and ended up just starring off into “Neverland.” Within moments you are running around with the lost boys jumping across expanses, and fighting with your sword against the evil pirates. In your refusal to grow up you continue to hate meetings and find that they are [...]
2Apr2008 | David Mehrle | 0 comments | ContinuedMega Church’s
Recently our Senior Minister was at a meeting and received an interesting stat. He was sitting by the editor of Rev. magazine and they got in a conversation about mega churches and here is what was shared. There are only 1250 churches over 2,000 including all denominations There are only 700 churches over 3,000 The [...]
1Apr2008 | David Mehrle | 0 comments | Continued