Youth Ministry on Steroids

So perhaps you were expecting this scandalous article on a bunch of youth group children going crazy using steroids... that is NOT what you will be getting.

Sometimes you don't get a great look at your ministry until you take a small step to the outside and look in from that angle. I have been lucky enough to have the ability to see what our OWN youth ministry looks like by putting it back to back with the hundreds of youth ministries I have been able to encounter through various conversations, through working at C.I.Y. and most recently from being able to have a field placement class. This class consists of several youth ministry students who are interning at various local youth ministries. We get to dive deep into the workings, pros and cons of these ministries, including our own.

So far throughout this journey there is one thing I have come to realize... Our youth ministry is a youth ministry on steroids.

NOW this is the only time I am going to tell you that it is okay to be on steroids!

Youth ministry is a very new concept in comparison to the idea of the church. The majority of the youth groups that I encounter seem to be stuck in the zone where our church was before we got our new building. Many churches simply to now have my kids that are of that demographic. Many churches from what I hear have a lot of "old people." Unfortunately we are quite the opposite. We seem to be lacking a large group of, we'll call them "more wise people." Which gives us the PERFECT demographic for having an explosion of teens!

Another thing we have working for us is a lot of attention. Many youth ministries must be stuffed in some church basement for Sunday morning and not given much to make it work. Christ Church of the Valley has done an EXCELLENT job of thinking of our teens when doing budgeting and what not, it has made it possible for us to be more state of the art than almost 99% of student ministries.

As the years go on, youth ministry must compete with all of the crap in students lives to get the message across. We're fighting culture, this mass pandemic of A.D.D., crappy relationships, and every bad influence you can imagine. I am very proud to say that I am part of a church that is trying very hard to make change happen...

All of that said... we had a massive night last week at youth group. If you are interested in getting involved in any way, PLEASE hit me up with an e-mail adamf@moviechurch.com. Stuff you can do can range anywhere from security/registration/hospitality or even a relational leader! We will continue to change hundreds of kids lives, and be among the most healthy and fasting growing youth groups in the country! I hope you might be interested in getting involved with such an awesome journey!