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Welcome to Effective Youth Ministry Press!

This site is designed to help youth ministers run youth ministries dedicated to effective discipleship and evangelism. It promotes a style of youth ministry that avoids 'punching the air' but rather hits the target. That is, we want to help churches fulfill the goal of raising up a generation of young people who take Jesus Christ seriously and, who grow in their faith and knowledge of him long after they are young. The question with youth ministry is always… how do we accomplish this in our practice? We will unpack this as we go.

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Recent blogs

Thoughts on Discipleship Part 1: Don’t hang with kids, equip them to follow.

Making disciples is a command from Jesus. We all tend to agree that it is important but we seemed to have dropped the ball when it comes to helping converts actually follow the one they have been converted to. Here is some wisdom gleaned from the book by BIll Hull: The Complete Book of Discipleship.

The Well is dry, the pool is gone.

Our culture is no longer dominated by Christianity. The goodwill we once received from society is no longer there. The end result is that there is less support for the Christian youth event therefore we must re-think our view of "success".

Thoughts on Evangelism Part 1: What Would Gretzky Do?

How do we attract young people to our youth programs? Let's stop and consider what a non-christian group would do to attract youth to their activities.