Build a network. The key to increasing your leadership base and growing your student ministry is similar to finding success on the social webl: Build a targeted, engaged group of people who are legitimately interested in where your ministry is headed. This is not esay. This takes discipline. This takes great patience. This will develop over time and not happen quickly.

Craft a clear vision and communicate it often. Get alone with God and ask the Holy Spirit to tell you what you are supposed to do with your ministry. After He speaks, and only after He speaks, share that content with people in your ministry, and for that matter, anyone whow will listen. Be creative with the way you share. Step outside the box ... He will lead you.

Authentically Engage with People. Authentically engage with students and leaders in a helpful and genuine ways. Ask questions. Answer questions. Create a dialogue with those who are clearly interested in going the same direction as you. Be real. Be available. Care ... Be Biblical. Pray daily and ask the Holy Spirit to lead you.

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Found this today as I was doing a little reseaerch ... I think it's worth a few minutes of our attention.

A new survey has found that increasing number of young Britons are having unprotected sex with a new partner. Researchers surveyed 200 British young people as part of a study of 6,026 people aged 15 to 24 across 29 countries between April and May. It found that 61 percent have had sex, 43 percent of which admitted to having had sex with a new partner without using contraception -- compared to 39 percent in 2009, Sky News reported. Reasons given for unprotected sex with a new partner included not liking using contraception, and being drunk and forgetting precautions. Nearly one in five girls and 16 percent of boys said they did not receive any kind of sex education at school. Additionally, 16 percent of boys and girls said they did not trust their teachers to provide accurate and unbiased information about contraceptive choices. "There are some excellent sexual health education programs in this country. But still some young people say we don't trust teachers completely," said Doortje Braeken from the Adolescents and Young People for the International Planned Parenthood Federation. "Quite a lot of young people are still afraid to go to services. Whether it's true or not, they fear that the services are not confidential. I think that's one of the major issues why young people don't go to services. "They think 'maybe they'll tell my parents'. There's still this fear of shame around it," Braeken added.

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