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Youth Worker Training at the 2022 Biennial Convention
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ORANGE Conference '23
The CLB is going to ORANGE ’23
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The CLB is Going to ORANGE ’23
The CLB is going to ORANGE '23! To learn more about this event, watch the video and read below. ORANGE website: https://theorangeconference.com Dates: April 26-28, 2023 Cost: The CLB is paying the registration costs for the first 11 youth workers who register by Nov....
Conditional Confidentiality
For me, it seems that in addition to all the practical procedural changes that COVID has pushed onto churches, it has also caused new stress points in people’s lives. Some of those stress points are related to the impact on their jobs and income, experiencing...
Parenting Generation Screen
Parents, as you read Jonathan McKee’s newest book, “Parenting Generation Screen,” you might be inclined to cancel your kids’ cell phone service, but be encouraged to keep reading it for many great practical insights into helping your teens manage the responsibility of...
Commissioned?
For just a moment I want to unpack the word “commissioned” as it’s used in the military. The Navy uses the word “commission” when a ship is placed into active service. This is a really big moment in the life of a ship as it means that this ship is now an official...
Stay Standing If You are a Seasoned Youth Worker
We’ve likely all played a game of “Stay Standing If”. Now, picture a room of hundreds of youth workers playing that game with the host saying, “Stay standing if you’ve been in youth ministry for one year or less” and then they repeat that phrase repeatedly while...
Boundaries: A Roundtable Discussion
You are invited to view a 60-minute round table discussion on boundaries. Having boundaries in ministry is such an important thing for youth workers, their spouses, their families and their churches as seven ministry leaders share from their 200 years of ministry...
Book Review: “Sticky Faith Innovation”
Over the last few months, I have had a sense that there was room in our church's youth ministry to be more creative and more importantly, to be more intentional about our ministry. Shortly thereafter, I purchased the book “Sticky Faith Innovation” by Steve Argue and...
Youth Worker and Youth Ministry Health Survey Panel Discussion
By Mark Johannesen In November we sent an email out to our youth worker network to ask them eight questions about the health of their ministries and of themselves. As a result, we got 28 responses which gave us some insights into how they and their ministries...
GRACE NOW
A few years back I wrote a blog post called “Well A Lot” (it can be found at www.clba.org/well-a-lot/), and) the point of it was to encourage youth workers to do the things that they do – “well” instead of doing “a lot”. And truly, doing things “well” for Jesus should...
Well, A Lot
I’m hoping my title was a bit confusing. I want to name two different ways of doing ministry right off the bat…. Doing it well Doing a lot of it I remember when I was 22 and just getting started at my first church how I did things. I did a lot of stuff. I hung out...