Today we’re wrapping up our series on engaging students through technology.  Here are two more ways students are using technology to impact their world.   • Mobilization – Due to globalization, students are more compelled to work with God to fight world hunger, child soliders, and to help provide clean water. Students of the next generation are longing for energizing visions worthy of pursuit and sacrifice. Technology has...

We’ve been talking about how the next generation views technology and how it’s changing youth ministry culture today.  Whether you’re a youth leader or a parent of a youth, understanding how technology works and how students view it today is important  because it’s how they communicate.  if you want to communicate and I mean really communicate with students today you must understand technology.   • Contact...

First of all, I have a positive view of technology usage in youth ministry. But I am reminded technology means something totally different for the next generation. Technology to a teen is not just a tool but a way of life. Technology should play vital roles in how youth pastors do youth ministry in the online world. The Barna Group conducted a research study, How Technology Drives Generation Gap, and concluded: Younger adults rely on...

I think we hear it a lot but sometimes it’s still good to be reminded. “Lead by example.”  Your example is powerful. Studies still show that the number one influence in a child’s life is their parent or guardian.  That mans YOU have the most influence over your child.  Not what they listen to or hear from the media, not their friends, or teachers, or youth leaders. It’s you. So what to do? Here’s a...

The Family Drift By Tim Walker My wife is the kind of person who always asks big questions—usually at times that blindside me and knock me unconscious. For example, the other day, she asked me, “What’s important for us as a family?” Not, “What do you want for dinner?” or “Do we have money to buy the boys some shoes?” (It seems like we’re always buying shoes.) Nope, it was “What’s important for us as a family?” Now my...