The Core Models of Good Volunteers for Your Youth Ministry

The Core Models of Good Volunteers for Your Youth Ministry
What are the big tasks involved in building a host of quality volunteers for a youth ministry, and what is a youth pastor or a youth ministry volunteer to do to make their ministry better.
http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/1784748/the_core_models_of_good_volunteers.html

9 Things to Remember When Mentoring Teenagers

9 Things to Remember when Mentoring Teenagers
The teenage years are a particularly rocky time for kids. Learn how you can be a benefit rather than a hindrance to teenager’s growth and maturity.
http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/1793898/9_things_to_remember_when_mentoring.html

Journaling 101: Demonstrating the Value of Your Deep Thoughts

Alright, everyone, this is the last article in my series on the benefits of journaling.  This one focuses in on how journaling can develop your depth and thought life.

Journaling is not just for writing down the little things that happen in your life, it’s about becoming a deep person who has an impact on the world around and on people. Journaling is about becoming the kind of person that you respect.

For more, please read my newest article, Journaling 101: Demonstrating the Value of Your Deep Thoughts HERE.

Journaling 101: A Record of Where We’ve Come From

Journaling 101: A Record of Where We’ve Come From
One in a series of articles about the benefits of journaling for spiritual growth. Use your journal to keep track of where your spiritual journey has taken you, and to look forward to God’s provision for the future.

Please read my entire series of Journaling 101 articles on Associated Content.

http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/1713475/journaling_101_a_record_of_where_weve.html

Journaling 101: An Outlet For Prayer

Journaling 101: An Outlet for Prayer
Be quiet. You heard me, Christians…we talk too much. Find out why we should shut our mouths and give ourselves time to let God connect the synapses in our heads.
http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/1712879/journaling_101_an_outlet_for_prayer.html

McDonald’s Drive-Thru Greeter and Jesus

McDonald’s is serving up fast food sermons these days. I’ll take my Big Mac with a side of Jesus. Or is it the other way around?

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I go to McDonald’s way too much for breakfast.  It is probably the reason that I have this growing belly, and have recently started running again.  However there is one thing that drives me nuts about the fast food chain: the automated recording of a little old lady trying to sell me even more food when I have already determined what I would like to eat.  I sit and wait while the recording wastes a bit of my tim and the time of those in line behind me, and then I place my order a little more irritated than I started off.

However, there are things to be gleaned from my daily morning irritation.  To find out what the McDonald’s Drive-Thru greeter has to do with Jesus, please…

• READ my article about the McDonald’s Drive Thru Greeter and Jesus

Journaling 101: An Easy Outlet For Self-Evaluation

One of the biggest influences on my spiritual growth over the past many years has been my journal.  My prayer journal has allowed me to think more deeply and make more connections between my life, Scripture, and the lives of others than I would have been able to make otherwise.

I don’t believe that my experience with journaling is limited just to me.  Journaling has a way of bringing out the whole of a matter, whether good or bad. When the pen hits the paper, our minds begin to transform our experiences into a tangible record of thoughts, emotions, and actions. That record…

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Also, for more in this series, please read:

Journaling 101: A Tangible Evidence of What God Is Teaching You.

Mentor Me

As I have been organizing my thoughts on many different topics, I wanted to start putting a ton of the information that I have been gathering into a single place.

Enter Squidoo!  I don’t know if any of you have seen this site, but it is actually a pretty great site for putting information together for people.  Since the internet is OVERRUN with information, and NONE of us can wade through it all, this little place gives me a place to organize information about single topics into one little website.

Technology is nice, isn’t it.

So, head on over to MENTOR ME, my first lens on Squidoo.

What is a Mentor, and Why Do I Need One?

Why is it that so many are so averse to taking advice? What makes that perfect person that you can look to as a source of wisdom and encouragement? Find a mentor, and learn the life lessons they have for you.

When you consider your life, and all the things that make up your experience, don’t you wonder what you could have done better?  Don’t you hope that you will improve?  Getting a mentor of some sort could be the best decision you could make.
Find that person who will stand up for you, and stand up to you, to make you a better person.

Check out this article to learn more:

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Or, look here for tips on being a mentor to someone else:

Six Important Roles of a Spiritual Mentor

Six Important Roles of a Spiritual Mentor

What does it take to have a good mentoring relationship? How do I go about being purposeful in my relationships with those I mentor while also allowing God to take them at the pace He wants to?

For those of us who have gotten ourselves into the incredibly overwhelming role of being someone’s “mentor,” the challenge can seem daunting.  Remember that it is not really us who mentors, however; God does the work through us and for them.  Our role is mostly to be who we are, to strive to be like Christ, and to share that with those that we mentor.

Keeping that in mind, there are a few things that we should keep in mind as we mentor others.

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