Do you have a youth worship team at your church? Are you interested in starting a worship service in your youth group? Since I began writing I have had more questions about youth worship leading, working with youth bands and other related items, I thought I would create a permanent link to all the articles [...]
This past week we have been hosting Ike evacuees in our youth center. We also had scheduled our youth worship service. Since our normal place was now living quarters for 112 of our guests, we had to look elsewhere for a place to hold our service. We ended up scaling down and moving the service [...]
Imagine this- You are in rehearsal and you have your chord sheet for “Lord Let Your Love” sitting in front of you. You are ready to rehearse when your group realizes that the key it is written in is too high and it needs to be changed. At this point you have two options. Scratch [...]
So, you are ready to invest in a drum set for the youth room because your drummer is tired of lugging all 48 pieces of his kit to the church every Wednesday night. This is a move I would recommend if your drummer is a consistent part of your youth program and if you foresee [...]
This is part one in a series of posts entitled “Back to Basics”.
Maybe this is familiar. You are listening to the radio or latest worship CD and hear a great new song. You go home, type out the chords or find them online, grab the CD and head to rehearsal. You then play the [...]
The other night, the last night of a youth group mission trip, as a reward for a hard week of work, I carried the group to see a 3-D movie. The plot was cheesy and had a lot of holes. And if you tried to watch the movie in the conventional manner, it was blurry, [...]
Recently my friend Tim Schmoyer who blogs at Life in Student Ministry received the following email from a youth leader looking for some help. He asks:
“Do you know of any GOOD cd’s or dvd’s for sing-a-long praise and worship music for teens. We are a small group in rural Missouri. No praise band but we [...]
We are just now on the last full day of camp. I have been leading for the 6th and 7th graders this week and I have really enjoyed it. There are a few more things I have learned and Ideas that I have seen I’d like to pass on.
First… I was kind of worried on [...]
Wanting to start a contemporary worship service for youth in a small church with little resources? This was just the situation a friend of mine asked me about this weekend.
Here are some suggestions:
1. Use the talents that are in your church- Find out the youth who play guitar, or piano. Even those that think they [...]
