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Staff Relations

Working with a team a staff or any group for that matter is often a lot of fun and sometimes a real struggle.  Struggles are going to happen.  However I think they happen far too often.  A simple way to prevent and lessen the number of struggles on a team is to practice the art of communicating and clarifying.  Take time to clearly communicate.  Work hard on the front end of a relationship and then continue to clarify along the way.  Divisions are deadly and should be treated as the enemy that they are.  

3 years ago we launched ymnow.com.  Our goal was simple ... we wanted to be a web site youth workers could trust — a place youth workers could enjoy — a spot on the web where people who love students could find current resources that would help them point students to Jesus.

We wanted to be an encouragement—we wanted to help.  At the end of the day, we wanted to be a friend you could count on when you needed a simple idea, game, or video.  Our deep desire was to make resources you could use to connect to the students you see day in and day out.  That’s what we wanted to do three years ago ... that’s what we want to do today.

Your friend and partner,
sb

20 Years from now a few of the students in your ministry are going to remember your name and the things you are doing your ministry.

They are going to be telling your jokes, your stories and trying in some ways to replicate what you are doing today.

 I remember my youth pastor as a man who loved to teach the Bible and who loved to help us understand the great things of God.  He memorized Scripture.  He encouraged us to do the same thing ... he accepted students of all kinds and painted a picture of a God who loves.  I was blessed to be under his ministry.  

Today, as you encounter students ... parents and staff, pay the price and do the things in private that prepare you for your ministry in public.   

2o years from now your ministry will still be making an impact.  Pretty cool huh???

— sb

 

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Psalm 100

Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.  Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.  Know that the Lord is God.  It is He who made us, and we are His, we are His people, we are the sheep of his pasture. Enter His gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise, give thanks to Him and praise His name.  For the Lord is good and His love endures forever; His faithfulness endures forever.

Len is part of the leadership of the National Network of Youth Ministries and serves as the District Coordinator for Texas and New Mexico.  His ministry includes pastoring youth pastors and youth workers, helping build healthy local youth ministry networks, providing youth ministry training and walking alongside churches with a process so they can discern and discover what a healthy youth ministry means in their context.

Len has served in full-time youth ministry since graduating from Dallas Theological Seminary in 1994.  He’s served churches in New Jersey, Connecticut and his native Texas.

Follow Len on Twitter  http://twitter.com/snavenel/